Craig;
"Supports my suspicion that we are limited in our own understanding, by our own miniscule experience of the Solar System, and the physical processes observed here on Earth."
Doesn't mean we cant fantasize - read 'make ideas' - that might evolve into real 'things/events'.
Look at Jules Verne and Star Trek (Gene Rodenbury). We dont need to necessarily know all the "physical processes" to make things happen just yet.
Jules Verne ( and others) anticipated that we would make it to the moon.
I am not saying emphatically that there is life out there, but the statement;
"This still does not support the idea that 'life MUST be out there', however, it does support the concept of: 'infinite diversity through infinite combinations'."
in my eyes reads that life IS out there......the infinite diversity and combo bit.
"If this ever turns out to become an emerging consensus picture, then the view that a specific occurrence of life emerging, actually
requires a universe of the size and dimensions of our observable domain, would seem to become even more credible than it presently is."
Sorry Craig you got me there..... what the shell does that mean?????
In plain words - I dont understand what that says.
I'm re-reading it over and over again
#####sarcastic joke coming#######
Craig are you a politician?
If that was in bad taste Mods please delete but Craig ...No malice is intended.... I just simply thought it was like a pollies response to a question.......
Please Craig, no offence
yours humbly, Bartman