Intelligent life may be rare, but simple life isn't.
highly subjective and arbitrary qualifiers you are using. again..."If it is everywhere".....
DoubtingThomas wrote: We humans may have won the cosmic jackpot, but for every jackpot winner there are thousands of smaller prize winners. It is a very simple concept to understand. Simple life is probably everywhere.
Oh, now i see where you put the goal post - right next to "probably" (geez).
And what must surely be the universe's most arrogant statement - "won the cosmic jackpot". You have such a high regard for human existence within the scale of the scientific universe, why is that?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
subgenius wrote:And what must surely be the universe's most arrogant statement...
That hardly compares to the idea there is a creator-god who is your dad and formed the cosmos specifically so you among an elect few of a single species among millions of species on a single planet among billions of planets could receive your special divine inheritance as the supreme directors of your own cosmic creations. Your being a dick apparently having no influence on whether or not you really qualify for said inheritance apparently.
The underlying world view of Mormonism is about as arrogant and narcissistic as they come. You give it a little special sauce, just by being you.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
subgenius wrote:And what must surely be the universe's most arrogant statement - "won the cosmic jackpot". You have such a high regard for human existence within the scale of the scientific universe, why is that?
That statement seems much less arrogant than holding the belief that a supreme being picked one planet in the universe to replicate himself, and in his image (or perhaps he in ours), and that the same being will look out for us no matter what stupid crap we end up doing.
ETA: looks like honor has pointed out that same absurdity a few moments before my own post. And with flair. : )