[Alex Murphy]

Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, figured that there must be many more inhabited worlds than this one, and that there must be a pathway to salvation offered up to any that had the intelligence to recieve it - thus many billions of Christs to offer salvation to many billions of worlds. He was burned at the stake for heresy.

I can think of two things wrong with the above statement.

[allmendream]

Well yes, even if there are hundreds of billions of inhabited worlds - who is to say how common the development of intelligent life is?

It took a few billion years and a few mass wipe outs of life before conditions were favorable for the rise of (semi)intelligent life here on Earth.