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Drake on Drake: ET Life A Certainty
astro writes "Frank Drake, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute applies Occam's Razor to his own Drake equation: 'Life should appear very frequently on other Earth-like planets. There will be microbial life nearby the solar system.' The simplest scenario is that 'Not Life' has a nearly identical number of assumptions as 'Life.' The contrasting view is that experimentation can prove it--but how many times did life independently create itself while the Earth changed through the whole spectrum of what biological forces might conjure up elsewhere. A sample size of 1 is in fact an experimental sample size of many--just here during Earth's climatic history."
Using a so-called "principle" like Occam's Razor to decide whether or not there is extraterrestrial life is insane. Occam's Razor doesn't take into account any actual science. Saying that something is simpler doesn't automatically mean it's right, or even that it's more likely to be right.
And anyway, nowhere in the Bible does it mention ET life. If there really were "aliens" then Jesus would have had to come and die for THEIR sins too. No alien-Jesus, no aliens.
It sounds like this guy is just some crackpot trying to push his views on all of us in a "scientific" manner.
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.