[Bubba_Leroy]

It could be that Earth is the only planet in the universe with life. The evolution of life from complex organic molecules to even the simplest living organism could have required trillions of different coincidental occurrences all in the exact right order, so rare that they have never taken place anywhere else.

It is like the old adage that if you had an infinite number of monkeys banging away at an infinite number of typewriters one of them would reproduce all of the works of Shakespeare.

[John S Mosby]

But they would have written “Shakespeare” in chimpanzee “language” even so, and taken a long time to do that if they could even envision the plot lines of English stage drama.

They could just as well worked out nuclear fusion- maybe they have and wejust can’t understand them!

It’s a thought, for now- 11.5 Billion years too late.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yes! If the universe, or what I like to call “existence” is infinite, then it goes without saying biological intelligence would exist. It’s mind bending, but I tell you, and people do not believe me when I say this: I remember being in the womb. I remember being smaller than the smallest and when I was a toddler, I use to freak out about it, so it makes me wonder how is that possible unless there is a soul?