True.However it can be illuminating to look at the reasons why this topic seems to touch so many nerves.It seems it's an issue that's difficult to look at unemotionally.Lots of big questions that touch very deeply on who and what we are.The issue often ends up looking a lot like a creation/evolution,theist/atheist or even a protestant/catholic debate.Tons of heat with little light.
It seems it’s an issue that’s difficult to look at unemotionally.
***I don’t get it. Here’s as much of an unemotional appreciation as you’re gonna see. The response (other than silence) has been along the lines of “surely, there must be away that panspermia works.” IOW, a faith response.
... calculations of 1 in 10^29345 for the formation of an aggregate of proteins minimal for the existence of life are computed on the basis of the left-handed amino acid problem alone.
So the SETI project was off by 29,343 orders of magnitude. It only needs to be off by 50 orders of magnitude to be impossible, by the mathematical definition.