[Reeses]

For intelligent life to form it probably requires a lower life form to develop a war making disposition. War is in effect unnaturally fast evolution. Without it, development is too slow and a meteor would reset life. The reason we can't find any intelligent life out there is probably because the universe is a very bad neighborhood. They are hiding. Some advanced civilization may have already seen The Jerry Springer Show and lobbed a black hole missile in our direction.

[Moonman62]

For intelligent life to form it probably requires a lower life form to develop a war making disposition. War is in effect unnaturally fast evolution. Without it, development is too slow and a meteor would reset life.

I respectfully disagree. Biological evolution has ocurred without the help of war for billions of years. Humans probably aren't any smarter than they were a few thousand years ago when the first wars started. It's our technology that's improved. And if a civilization lasts for millions of years, a war-like era will probably only take up a brief period of that time.