[meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

[Phil Whitmer]

Darren,

Of course I'm fixated on the origin of life, that's what this thread is 
about isn't it?  Nobody knows what life is or how it got started here on our 
own home planet, so how could we possibly know it exists elsewhere? Just 
because we want it to does not make it so.   And I'm still waiting for the 
slimmest most slender thread of evidence to back up those claims. I've heard 
nothing but conjecture based on beliefs.  Your belief in alien life forms 
sounds religious to me, like you have faith in something you know ain't so. 
Just like Carl Sagan. Carl really really wanted to believe in aliens, but he 
was so smart, he knew that without evidence, you just couldn't go there. 
Seti is one of the most noble experiments undertaken by mankind.  When they 
detect that repeating sequence of prime numbers, then I will go there and 
take my place among the true believers.

The probabality of life popping into existence out of non living matter is 
the smallest unit of measure above zero. Just think about it,  it's not 
alive, poof!, it's alive.  To believe this extremely unlikely, some would 
say stastically impossible thing, just happens over and over requires more 
faith than I can muster.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, I'll say it till the 
day I die and my atoms return to the cosmic dust from whence they came. 
Just show me the money.

Yours in religiousity,

Phil Whitmer