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Originally Posted by Calisport
I figure it is a similar situation to seeing or experiencing spirits. I'm open to life on other planets.
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One helluva waste of real estate if there isn't.
Mankind throughout recorded history and probably much farther back than that, has ALWAYS seen the race is unique. Something special. Probably a lot easier to do when the only elements there were, were earth, air, fire, and water; and the greater light, the lesser light, and those hundreds of little pinpoint lights up there all revolved around us. Then along came people with names like Newton, Galileo, and Einstein, and all of a sudden we weren't so special any more. Neither is our insignificant little pebble orbiting a nondescript sun tucked away in a far corner of a pretty ordinary galaxy.
The point is this. Given the immensity of the Universe and our own ordinariness, I find it impossible to believe that life arose ONLY on our pebble.