[Windflier]

...the likelihood, as likelihood is actually figured in real science, militates against anything like we've seen on this planet ever happening again, much less in such a way that results in a "universe that is teeming with life."

I'm sorry, but in a sea as vast as the universe, that statement is illogical.

Who says that life must develop under conditions identical to those found on Earth? We have life forms on this planet that thrive in conditions that are deadly to plant, animal, and insect life.

Whole ecosystems could inhabit methane seas on other planets, as far as we know. Animal life could exist elsewhere that breathes in an atmosphere with a totally different chemical composition than our own.

The possibilities are endless.

[aruanan]

I'm sorry, but in a sea as vast as the universe, that statement is illogical.

No, your error is assuming that the size of the universe somehow has a necessary relationship with the types of possible chemical processes.

We have life forms on this planet that thrive in conditions that are deadly to plant, animal, and insect life.

And? They nevertheless are terrestrial life forms. The conditions in which fish thrive are deadly to most plants and non-aquatic life and vice versa.

The possibilities are endless.

In one's imagination they are endless, but in terms of the table of elements and, within those elements, those that could plausibly serve in place of carbon, they are very limited.