[Ahban]

Why is it specious to assume that carbon based life, such as that found here, is the only kind of life possible? WHy is it not specious to assume that the universe teems with some unkown type of life that we have ZERO evidnece for???

Look at the last paragraph of my #256. What do you offer to refute the point of that paragraph?

[Dimensio]

Why is it specious to assume that carbon based life, such as that found here, is the only kind of life possible? Actually, I wasn't speaking of carbon-based versus not carbon-based, but rather configuration of life forms (whether carbon-based or not).

Carbon-based life can exist in a rather vast range of environments. It's the more "complex" carbon-based life forms that have more rigid limits, and thus the faulty assumption -- IMO -- is that complex carbon-based life can only exist in a single specific type of environment rather than there being a range of possible configurations for a range of environments.