"Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures?
Anyone have any idea who first coined this argument? Any time someone says they believe in aliens this is the argument. Wouldn't bug me so much but for the "arrogant" line; just annoying to hear the same thing parroted over and over.....
I'd like to reanimate my Incan astronaut armies so that they can blast him with their ray guns.
It is irrelevant if we are alone in this universe. We will not encounter any other life. Certainly we would not want to interact with it any more than we want to interact with viruses, cockroaches, squirrels, kodiak bears, or chimpanzees. And I have news for Tommy, they don't want to interact with us either.
It is self-centered reasoning to believe that all of the variety of life is nothing but "random chance". Does he believe that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the galaxy?