Water As An Element of Fine-Tuning

Are you refering to a reputable source somewhere or are you refering to someone that was cloud talking?All life as we know it are water based. Since we haven't encountered a single lifeform that could exist without the presence of water, I really can't see how anyone could propose that "life could potentially arise without the presence of water." This is very true. Marine life as we know it can't live and metabolize in ice. There are a few examples where the creatures hibernates in solid ice until the ice melts... but that's a different story.The question you should be asking is would there be some kind of life unknown to us that could arise in solid water? Until we encounter one, we just can't know for now. Again, you are assuming that life can only arise with the presence of water. This is like saying everybody likes chocolate because I like chocolate.There is nothing wrong with saying life as we know it can only exist with the presence of water. Again, just because you like chocolate doesn't mean that everybody you don't know don't like chocolate. There's nothing special about the laws of physics in regard to water. Everything follow the same basic laws including water. The difference between water and other solvents is that the water molecule happens to have a strong hydrogen bond property due to its dipole moment and structure. The hydrogen bond, although much weaker than the kinds of bonds that bond atoms together to form molecules (covalent, etc.), is much stronger than most intermolecular forces we know. Because of this, water molecules tend to get into a special formation when they freeze and become less dense than when they were liquid.Again, I'd like to remind you that you can't make any kind of presumption for other kinds of life that we don't know about simply because we don't know that life as we know it is the only kind of life that can exist. Just because you like chocolate and liking chocolate is what makes you unique doesn't mean that everybody you don't know has to like chocolate as well. How so? Explain to me more!This message has been edited by Lam, 11-01-2004 03:02 PM

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He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically challenged.The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Huh? Again, you are using what we know of life as we know it to try to apply to everything that we don't know. Just because you like chocolate doesn't mean everybody you don't know also likes chocolate.

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He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically challenged.The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.