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one thing more -- about Life -- Life is likely to form "spontaneously".
Not quite spontaneously, but let's say, "develop" from non-life.
this is speculaiton from a lay person who doesn't have as much information as scientists do -- but I read and watch and listen.
There was one report that vast clouds of organic molecules float through space -- it was a reputable source -- plasma, I think it was called. Not living, but the stuff of which Life is made.
So a high possibility exists of such matter being on other planets. Such matter then somehow becomes living matter. The composition is there -- the parts -- that of which the whole is made.
I personally think that living organisms arose (and arise?) from these clouds somehow and settle on planets.
I have a theory that this is how viruses appear on Earth -- it seems they usually start in remote locations where the environment is conducive to their propagation. But that's just conjecture.
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Xeno-x
on November 3, 2009 at 9:52 AM
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see if this is the website you reference
http://www.doesgodexist.org/
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Xeno-x
on November 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM
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recent astronomy has increased the odds quite a bit.
Discovery of more planets around more stars and even earth like (rocky) and earth sized planets.
I would beg to differ that the odds are high against the evolution of life on other planets.
I think we are the result of a progression that probably is very common in the Universe. Our sun is the offspring of a supernova of a red giant billions of years ago. Along with our sun there are scores of other similar suns sprung from the same supernova and within 50 light years of us. Probably they form a circle, which would be natural I would think, or a disc around the origin of their formation.
These are all of the same substance as our sun, and of a similar size. I would place the likelihood of an earth-like planet, not to mention an entire solar system, around any of these stars as highly likely. Since they are all of the same age, it would seem likely that life has evolved to a point similar to that on Earth -- and maybe even a bit further in some cases, and not as far in others.
But this is what it seems to me. Astronomers and other scientists studying the subject would know a little better than I the nature of these other stars and their systems.
And, I would venture to add, I think there is a chance of this birth of dozens of stars like our sun would be more common throughout our galaxy and the Universe than many speculate.
But that is just speculation on my part.
Science starts, though, with speculation, then information is gathered that supports or dispels that speculation.
Religious speculation, though, such as Mr. Clayton's springs from a previous assumption that its adherents decline to investigate for its validity, and scanty information is gathered and what is accepted is only what is forced to fit into evidence for the speculation. It is not put to the test as it ought to be.
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Xeno-x
on November 2, 2009 at 7:36 AM
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