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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by pfdietz on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:06PM (#28662518)
> It is highly unlikely that life - as on earth - does not exist anywhere in the universe.

This is a common senitment, but there is no rational basis for believing it to be true.

> enough evidence of primitive life forming where energy gradients exist

There is no evidence that life has arisen more than once.

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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by GeoAtreides on Sunday September 26, 2021 @02:01PM (#28663018)
> there is no rational basis for believing it to be true.

Denying that humans and their blue little planet are in any way special is such a rational basis.

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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by pfdietz on Sunday September 26, 2021 @02:04PM (#28663058)
If origin of life is uncommon, then any place it does arise will necessarily be special. You are simply asserting, as an axiom, that life cannot be uncommon. The core of your erroneous thinking is that you have not taken into account observer selection bias.

https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-sele...

Your sort of reasoning also led people to think in the 1700s that all the other planets in our solar system had intelligent life on them.

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