When Billions is Pittance Part III

When it is the actual search for extraterrestrial life that animates Darwinists in their assembly of a habitable-planets-in- the-universe list, it must be pointed out that several assumptions fuel that investigation.  They are assuming first of all that mindless evolution universally tends toward both the creation of, and the further development out of, life everywhere that the conditions allow. The logical problem with that assumption is that it utterly contradicts the foundational dogma of materialism, which is that nothing at all exists except for mindless (goal-less) matter.  Second, following logically from the first dubious assumption, they are asserting that a “habitable” planet must, at least potentially, equate to an “inhabited” planet.  Yet in fact these assumptions really amount to nothing more than arguing in a circle. 

Before I fulfill the intention of the title of this essay to lay out the reason why billions of planets in our own galaxy amount to pittance with respect to the question of other habitable planets, I wish to highlight one further highly relevant concern.  The literature I read on these matters consistently understates the ramifications from the distinction between so-called primitive (single-cell) life on the one hand, and advanced life (homo sapiens) on the other in matters of habitability.  The former is by order of magnitudes more adaptable to “environment” conditions of a kind that would be absolutely hostile, if not fatal, to the survival of, say, human-like creatures. 

Now, I will turn us to the extensive list of the actual environmental requirements that are necessary for any planet to be considered as “friendly” to advanced life on the order of human beings.

To be continued…