Mecallie <none@xx.cc> wrote in message news:<ceuars$pas$1@news3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>...

spasmous wrote:

Uh, tell me how that goes again, you know P(x) >> P(y) without knowing
P(x) or P(y). Sounds like rationality stopped working here ;)

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And yet, you can tell me, without knowing any more variables than I do, 
that there is no chance of ET life existing anywhere else?

I cannot speak for him, but in my case, I argue that there is no known
natural mechanism by which life would arise spontaneously. There are a
lot of theories, besides some nebulous claims of having created
"proto-cells" under "early Earth conditions," but nothing that
demonstrates actual abiogenesis, and the "proto-cells" turn out, under
closer examination, to be little more than soap bubbles.