Likewise, it would help the biblically pro-ET crowd considerably if they could cite a verse or two saying "And God set the stars in their places, and also the planets. And the Lord said 'I make these planets for My pleasure, and as I have filled the Earth with life and placed Man therein to dwell, likewise do I fill other planets also with life, and with other of My children therein to dwell, made also in My image.'"
Fact is, the Bible doesn't contain either passage, nor anything like them. It doesn't explicitly address the topic at all. For anyone to claim that it does, in either direction, is dishonest.
I disagree and again I cite Marianism as the example of how the Bible is not to be used. The bible never says that Mary is able to :
Hear prayers, provide special intercession as the Mother of the Son of God, that she is the Mother of God, that she is the mother of the church, that she is the Queen of Heaven, that she was immaculately conceived, that she was ever virgin, the dispenser of all grace, that she gave birth while keeping a hymen intact, or that she is our co-redeemer, that she appears to people with messages, that she makes statues bleed, that she performs miracles from heaven,
The bible never says that she can. Using your logic the bible either needs to specifically say that she can or that she can't. Using the bible it says not to add a word or detract a word from it. It also says of itself that it is, well it's so wonderful that words excape me. Anyone that sees it as that wonderful won't look for ways around it.