[Ahban]

Kid, your 113 and 114 put a lock on it, and there are a lot of limitations they don't mention. For example, only K and G stars will have a habitable zone for billions of years. The larger ones will swell after a relatively short life, roasting any Earths-in-the-making long before advanced life comes along.

Instead of calculating how many other Earth's there are, they should be scratching their heads trying to figure out how THIS ONE ever got here. It's too perfect. Everything has to work out just right. The odds of another planet that harbors intellignet life in this galaxy is just about zero. Multiply those odds by 100 billion and it is still about zero. With 100 billion galaxies in the universe, the odds that there is another Earth are still just about zero.

The Earth itself is a miracle. If it is the result of chance, it beat incredible odds, even with 100 billion galaxies in the universe.

[The KG9 Kid]

I propose a name for the Earth-like planet that we'll never find:

'Tantalus'

[The KG9 Kid]

Of course, if you're saying that those posts lend scientific proof to the fact that the Supreme Being designed our Earth, then I have to wonder why He decided to place our planet inside a cosmic shooting gallery.

Our situation is anything but perfect, but I am still happy about it anyway.