subbie says:
The first two questions that come to my mind along these lines are, why would any intelligence direct, tamper with or otherwise influence the course of life on this insignificant third rock from an ordinary star,
The assumption of insignificance makes effective poetry but fallacious logic.
Just because a planet is small does not mean it lacks significance. Are children less significant than adults because they are smaller?
Anyway, tampering with this planet need not confer any special status. Maybe the intelligence tampers with everything. Maybe it tweaks other objects in the universe much more than this one.
and if it's so intelligent, why didn't it do a better job of it?
Maybe it's doing a magnificent job. Maybe the experiment is to grow bacteria in as many different habitats as possible and see what happens. You and I are two of the habitats.
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Edited by Archer Opterix, : the heck of it.
Archer
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