Prove to me He [God] doesn't [exist]. Other argument: Think about Earth. If it were any closer to the sun, we'd all fry. If it were any farther away, we'd all freeze. If the Earth wasn't tilted at precisely 23 1/2 (I think, but that's not the point) degrees, the polar ice caps would melt and we'd all drown. Do you really think that all that can happen just by chance?
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Considering there are seven other planets in our solar system and we have yet to find life on any of them, and that almost all of the planets we've found in other solar systems are outside their stellar habitable zones, "by chance" pretty much sums it up. Anything else is confirmation bias.
if the odds for a planet being habitable were only 1 billion/1, there would still be millions of life-abundant planets in the universe
5000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 galaxies.
Dickwad. If any of your scenarios would be true WE WOULDN'T BE HERE RIGHT NOW TYPING THIS, moron! Earth is a little bit older than me, you or anyone/-thing ever to live on this planet.
In a nutshell: we happen to have a habitable planet, where life has had the chance to have evolved. I'd call that just a chance. I'd like to see your face, when we discover on some other planet in our solar system, that it can sustain at least some level of life. You'll fall off your rocker. I mean, it's not like there's no life in the most unfriendly conditions and places on Earth right here.
Gnomist
Not sure where you got that number, but even so there are at least 80 billion galaxies in the observable universe. And if we assume they have the same number of stars as our galaxy consisting of around 100 billion stars. Then there is a ass load of chance out there
considering the universe
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If the Earth was incapable for whatever reason of supporting life, there would be no life here. Your creationist argument has it completely ass-backwards. This planet wasn't put here for the benefit of life, life evolved because the conditions on the planet allowed it to.
And given the almost countless planets that must surely exist, the chances are extremely good that there is life (probably lots of it) out there somewhere. Of course, if you think that the universe consists solely of our solar system you would see it differently - but in reality we are like a grain of sand in the Sahara.
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