Probability of Life Arising Calculations

Mike. The site you list to simply takes a whole list of probablities that don't show their work, and multiplies them.If you go this route, you've made your job much, much harder. For instance, let's start at the top.local abundance and distribution of dark matter: 0.1How did they reach this conclusion? Feel free to continue down the list when you're finished with this one.I might also add that they seem to be taking the odds of life developing on Earth, and then applying it to life developing anywhere in the Universe.For instance, if life began off somewhere in the gamma quadrant (or what have you), then what would the mass of Neptune have to do with it?

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"If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars."
-George Meyer, Simpsons writer

I'm sorry, Mike. I should have made clear that when I asked you to show your math, I meant all of it. Not just the last step.Next time, I'll be sure to explain to you what a sixth-grader taking an algebra test already knows. What an astounding surprise. If you intend to keep using the argument over in the faith and belief section, then it's most certainly your party as well.

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"If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars."
-George Meyer, Simpsons writer

As soon as you can tell me what this creator is, and how it went about creating life, I'm more than open to considering it.But as long as you're saying "I dunno", then why should I bother considering it? Without the work being shown, these figures are just pulled out of some guy's ass.It's like me saying, "Math shows that there is no God. You see, the probability of there being no God is 1. Honest." The desert is inhospitable to humans. Life still exists there. It even thrives there. So go ahead and ask them to back their assertions up. I think they should... if someone asks them to do so.

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"If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars."
-George Meyer, Simpsons writer

I'm not sure why. To my knowledge, I've never refused to back up an assertion when you've asked me to do so. If I'm wrong, go right ahead and point out where. I'm happy to make good on it.In the meantime, you just sound like a kid who got caught stealing a cookie before dinner, whose only response was to whine, "but... but... Amlodhi got to have a cookie! It's not fair!"Well, I don't care what Amlodhi's mom lets him do. You shouldn't be stealing cookies.This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 10-20-2004 12:45 PM

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"If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars."
-George Meyer, Simpsons writer