[backwoods-engineer]

"Earth is the ONLY planet of its kind in the galaxy, or even the Local Group, or maybe in the entire universe." I'm sorry, that's a hard one to swallow. The galaxy is a very big place (100 billion stars), and it is less than a spec of sand in the Sahara compared to the known universe. The only reason we aren't finding more earthlike planets is because we don't have the technology to see them yet.

Yes, there are many stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them are the wrong TYPE, or in the wrong PLACE, or of the wrong SIZE. Read "The Privileged Planet" by Guillermo Gonzalez. Remember, we are talking about "habitable" planets, not some piece of crap moon, tidally locked to its little red flare star, where a small colony of bacteria huddles in a little pond in the weak sunlight.

[Raycpa]

Food for thought

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/designss.html

The Incredible Design of the Earth and Our Solar System

[gore_sux]

"Yes, there are many stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them are the wrong TYPE, or in the wrong PLACE, or of the wrong SIZE.

Yes but I only need to have 0.00000000002% of the star systems in the galaxy to be habitable for you to be wrong. This doesn't account for the possiblity of multiple planets in the same star system.