Thank you. Merry Christmas to you and your family, Virgil.
Merry Christmas O-P. We haven't spoken in a while. I hope you have a special holiday. Here's a present and a card for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7uvH...eature=related
Thanks.
Better late than never I suppose. I see Janine recommending browsers to you, I use Firefox as well. It's much more resistant to viruses than IE. I've heard Chrome is the best, but I've been using Firefox for years.
Not sure why we've never befriended. I'm asking.
Part II Certainly that first part is true and it's quite possible that some life form disappeared before we observed it. But no fossil record seems to have been found. It is though a very interesting phenomena, if true (and i think the odds lean toward it being true), but I'm not sure it really is relavant to a deism/atheism debate. I can see arguments from both sides substantiaing their position. I do think it has certain implications to all those who claim there is definitely life out there somewhere in the universe. Maybe there is, but it certainly seems tough for life to form. Thanks for an interesting and respectful conversation.
Hey O-P You said this before I got a chance to respond in that thread before it got closed down: "Not necessarily, the emergence of life need only be rare enough that it can occur relatively frequently every few 100 million years or so. That way life can emerge and go extinct a few times without us being able to investigate it. Moreover, once life already exists in an environment it will consume any complex organic substances and prevent more life from emerging anyway. Or panspermia happened , but I don't actually believe that one." see Part II for my response. It exceeded the character limit for one message.
