Are We alone: Paul Davies comments (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 26, 2016, 01:47 (3102 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: If you can't calculate the odds, the odds are irrelevant. - But he also implies that the arrival of life is totally a mystery and his book title "The Fifth Miracle" contributes to my point that he seriously considers we may well be alone.
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> dhw: Why would intelligent alien life have to be clones of ourselves, or of Jesus or the Jews? If Davies is talking about life forms not following our biochemistry, they could hardly be human. But even if there were humans on other planets with their own religions, the theists could still argue that God made them, and Catholics, Jews and Muslims could simply add Cosmists, Jupitists and Martianists to their respective lists of those who have got it wrong! - But religions really want the Earth to be the place of the Garden of Eden, special. Religions are too rigid to be as forgiving as you are.