Water, Water, Everywhere! BUT Nary a single sign of life about :-( !
Earth overflows with life but the rest of the solar system[and by silly extrapolation, the galaxy] is as barren as can be. How totally frustrating that must be.
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What does the Big Bang have to do with abiogenesis? One is cosmology, the other is biology.
Abiogenesis wasn't "all by itself", it was a certain set of occurrences that worked together to create life.
The rest of the solar system seems to be either too cold or too hot, or too lacking in atmosphere, to sustain life. Besides, we haven't really explored all of it thoroughly, have we?
It's already happened once on this planet, why would it need to happen again? And how do you know it's not happening on distant planets? How can you say the entire galaxy is barren when we've only explored exactly one other planet, and that by remote control?
Tell us, Oh giant intellect, how, exactly, would we go about observing such life ?
Earth overflows with life but the rest of the solar system[and by silly extrapolation, the galaxy] is as barren as can be.
How do you know? Have you personally been to every. single. planet. in our galaxy? Have you ever even observed them all through telescopes?
Not to mention our galaxy is but one of countless others. Like Andromeda, Triangulum, Large Magellanic Cloud, Pegasus Irregular Dwarf,... So even if ours doesn't have any else, that doesn't meant the others don't.
Personally, I think they're trying to remain hidden from us. After all, if we can continually produce morons like the myriad people quoted here, then we'd hardly look like "intelligent" life...
(1) The conditions of an early earth are not the same as today. Higher temperature and pressure would be more conducive to chemical reactions, so why should we assume that it's still happening now?
(2) If it were still occurring, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? There are single-celled entities in every drop of pond water. Could you tell ones that were created yesterday from ones that are the descendants of ancient algae? I couldn't.
(3) If "goddidit", the same goes for his creations. Is he still playing with the recipe and creating new life-forms? And if so, is he doing it on some other planet in some other solar system, having abandoned earth as a failed experiment? You can't tell that either. You have no way of claiming the rest of the galaxy as "barren".
We are both speaking out of ignorance, but my ignorance is not as profound as yours.
@Doubting Thomas
"It's already happened once on this planet, why would it need to happen again?"
He's referring the the fundie straw theory of evolution, where chemicals randomly bumping into each other accidentally make a fish.
If the straw theory is true then chemical bumping on the moon would make a moon fish, and Mars fish and everywhere else, so why don't we see any? Because evolution isn't true.
@Timjer
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@Malingspann
The immediate response would be no we didn't find anything it's an evolutionary conspiracy to discredit the word of god. After 30 years it would become something the bible predicted.
@Kanna
Water, Water, Everywhere! BUT Nary a single sign of life about
We haven't been looking very long and the universe is very, very big.
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It would be quite surprising to be alone.
"We briefly glanced at two other astral bodies. Two! If life was out there, we would have found it by now".
This guy is probably one of those people who loses the TV remote, does a quick head swivel and then loudly complains that he looked everywhere in the house so clearly someone must have walked off with it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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