Are We alone; fun and games (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, May 01, 2016, 20:57 (3127 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Introduction: There are x billion habitable planets in the universe. This means that life is possible on x billion planets. Only one planet is known to contain life.
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> Chapter 1a: If Earth is the only planet containing life, it shows that the universe was fine tuned to contain life on Earth. Only God could fine tune the universe and create life.
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> Chapter 1b: If Earth is the only planet containing life, and if you have x billion habitable planets in the universe, it shows that life was bound to happen some time or the other, so who needs God?-It doesn't show anything of the sort. There is no requirement for life to start een when it is allowed by the universe. Wishful thinking.
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> dhw: Chapter 2a: If life exists on other planets, it shows that the universe was fine tuned to contain life on different planets. Only God could fine tune the universe and create life.
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> Chapter 2b: If life exists on other planets, it shows that if you have x billion habitable planets in the universe, life was bound to happen many times over, so who needs God?
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> Epilogue: If life exists or existed on other planets, it could be/have been all sorts of life, which shows that all sorts of life are/were possible.-Shows nothing of the sort. More wishful thinking. Nobel denied