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Author Topic:   Has there been life for 1/4 of the age of the Universe?
fallacycop
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Message 33 of 114 (369425)
12-12-2006 11:10 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by Fosdick
12-12-2006 1:58 PM


Re: The odds of life are unknown
If the universe actually is pregnant with biological life, or at least carrying around its seeds, then why are new life forms not springing up all the time on a planet like Earth, with its many ponds so fertile and warm? Wouldn't you expect to see fresh life spontaneously occurring all over the place?
That`s odd. Having taken several hundred million the first time around, why would anybody expect it to happen before their eyes a second time?
even if it did happen again, it would get eaten by some of the current life forms that, after a few billion years of evolution, have become much more efficient than they were originally. Any form of life that springing up ab initio, on earth today wouldn`t stand a chance of survival.

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