Life on other planets

News to Note, December 11, 2010 - Answers in Genesis: If the emergence of life is the consequence of essentially random processes (a planet in the “just right” zone of a star, chemicals organizing in just the right way on the backs of crystals or in clay bubbles), and if we discover a seemingly infinite number of worlds with all manner of variation, it’s almost a statistically impossibility that earth could be the only home of intelligent life. It’s a sort of astrobiological corollary of the Copernican principle—that, whatever the evidence may be, the earth and its life just can’t be unique. Thus, evolutionists are painted into a corner because the philosophical consequences of finding no life beyond earth would serve a death-blow to their worldview.