At 07:05 PM Monday 8/4/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > It happened, so it's possible. As we only have one > > sample, we have > > only speculation as to how improbable it was (and that goes > > for both > > the formation of the universe and abiogenesis). > > What we don't have is any reason at all, in this day > > and age, to give > > up looking for answers, which is what much (not all) > > religion is > > trying to do. The God of the Gaps is alive and well in much > > of the > > world's people, even though the gaps are shrinking. In > > fact, the gaps > > are being kept open on purpose by many, including those > > nasty little > > "faith schools" that teach creationism. > > Charlie > >it would seem that extraterrestrial life could exist, according to >the drake equations, but highly unlikely. at least in an infinite >universe... that would explain the fermi paradox because life is so >rare that by the time their signature reached us we would have >missed the window, perhaps because we hadn't evolved yet out on this >faraway arm of the milky way and they have entered the singularity, or...
. . . they have received and decoded our television shows . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
