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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7766406" data-attributes="member: 6801286">This is not a good analogy either. You have changed it purposefully to make it seem as if our entire universe is hostile to all life, as if to say, isn't it a miracle that life some how developed on our planet? Which is a position I do not agree with. Life developed on this planet, and in doing so, adapted to it's environment, just as a puddle of water assumes the shape of a dip in the road. It is not extraordinary that the puddle is then perfectly attuned to the shape of that dip in the road. There is no reason to presume that life (like the puddle) could not adapt to a different environment. It is not even a given that life can't develop in the void of space itself. We simply do not know. Right on our planet, life exists in some of the most hostile places; sometimes right on the edge of underwater volcanoes. Which shows that life (as we know it) seems extremely resilient to hostile environments.Also, we didn't even remotely "Survey the nearby ocean". We hardly looked at anything nearby at all. We looked at one grain of sand in a sandbox so huge, that we can't even assert that we searched nearby... we hardly searched at all, because we lack the means to do so, given the huge distances. We didn't examine a single other planet with life on it. In our own solar system we are not done with examining all of the objects in it either.So, instead of comparing our planet to a rock in an ocean, it would be more accurate to compare our entire solar system to a rock, which we've only examined a small area of. And of the area of this rock that we examined, we found life.</blockquote>

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