Statistically, there pretty much has to be, if you think about it.
Don’t think so. Lot of variations I know but still don’t think so.
I have thought about it. But consider our Earth first. The chances of life on Earth by chance are non-existent, and you want to promulgate the chance of life on any other “planet” we nothing about, less than we know about our own planet? No, reason would have you say “no.”
Turns out to be a story about the test of a man's belief in God with an excellent back drop of him in a bizarre civilization
The sequal, “Children of God” surpringly, was even better.
If there is a creator.
And if he follows a pattern.
Then at some point life will appear out of life lessness.
Scripture says that the kingdom of God all follows a pattern of seed and harvest.
My speculation is the heavens are designed to spring forth in life by design at every level from sub atomic particles to master clusters of galaxies in an unending space time continuum.
If there is a creator he hasn’t stopped creating only taking periodic rests.
Yes, unless you believe in God. If you don't believe in God, then you will know that statistically there should be billions of places teaming with life out there... it should be all over the place, and pretty easy to see.
“Statistically, there pretty much has to be, if you think about it.”
For this to be true, you need to know two things: First, the number of stars/planets (we do, there are a LOT of them). And second the odds that any one might contain life - we have no idea on this one. The fact that it happened once only tells us the odds of it happening again are not zero - nothing else. The odds could be so high as to make other life very unlikely.
That is, of course, if life on earth is the result of random events that are subject to probability analysis.
I wrote a science fiction series of books on this theme. In my books, life was never meant to exist in this universe - it it too hostile, the speed limits are too low, the size too big.
Life was planted on Earth by creatures from another universe and its evolution was directed to create humans.
Humans were meant to appear for a reason - they had something to accomplish here.
That’s fiction, of course, but I am skeptical that there is other life out there. I think we would have heard them - or more likely they would have heard us - by now.
Statistically, there pretty much has to be, if you think about it.
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I have thought about it and I disagree.