“Fifty years ago I predicted the probability of exoplanets being found some day was likely to be 100 percent. I had university professors who denied the possibility while arguing to the contrary the Solar System was likely to be unique in having multiple planets.”
I think you are clearly a visionary genius.
“...it appears to be virtually impossible for life to have failed to develop countless times in the Milky Way Galaxy and the vast ocean of galaxies elsewhere in the Universe.”
Yes, definitely. We must all dogmatically accept multiple life elsewhere unless it can be disproven.
“I think you are clearly a visionary genius.”
Save the sarcasm, because the existence of undiscovered exo-planets was an easily foregone prediction.
The question now is whether or not the existence of life elsewhere in the Milky War Galaxy and the Universe is likewise an easily forgone conclusion as well? Given the commonality of the components and conditions necessary for the existence of life in the Milky Way Galaxy and the Universe beyond, the probable answer appears to a virtual certainty in much the same way as the existence of the exo-planets proved to be.
“Yes, definitely. We must all dogmatically accept multiple life elsewhere unless it can be disproven.”
It is yourself who is being dogmatic by rejecting the massive evidence favoring life without reasonable evidence and cause to do so.