Other Forms of Life (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 07, 2008, 14:29 (5626 days ago) @ George Jelliss

It seems that carbon and oxygen based life is the most likely, simply because these elements are the most common and most stable throughout the universe.
 
 - > The possibilities for imaginative fiction are endless. - George and I agree. The constraints of universal chemistry mean that other life will be based on carbon/oxygen and may have advanced to a human-like form or have varied in other directions, unless there is a God who set up one evolutionary pattern in DNA for the whole universe, getting the same result in each place. The latter is part of what we are debating on this website. Certainly, as dhw has pointed out, we don't know if God exists with absolute proof, and we have no proof that life exists elsewhere. We can fictionalize anything.