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There's no shortage of scientists who believe in the Rare Earth Hypotheses either, so it's not like I'm clinging to an unsupported theory. It's a possibility to consider.
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Sure, and COVID is just like the flu. It's a possibility to consider. The data doesn't support the claim. The Rare Earth Hypothesis has minority support because of data we have available, and continues to be expanded upon every month. The constraints of the Rare Earth Hypothesis are such that an identical condition as ours must exist for the conditions of life to evolve. The specificity and absoluteness of that premise is what brings the theory down in the first place.
At least present an argument that doesn't defeat itself. I don't even have to trot out all the failures of the Rare Earth Hypothesis as the wikipedia article you present does just that. The Rare Earth Hypothesis doesn't pass rigor as many of the limiters of the theory have been disproven on our own planet or on other celestial bodies in our own solar system.
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Also, your arrogance in the discussion is irritating. Maybe tone it down a notch.
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Arrogance? I'm just picking your arguments to pieces and letting the results speak for themselves. It's rhetoric in action. If you don't like it, improve your arguments. TBQH, your ignorance in this discussion is mildly irritating. If you're going to counter a concept, don't do it in self-defeating fashion. We haven't even discussed anything "controversial" to this point. I don't know what you're going to do if someone should drop the concepts of multiple dimensions, and these objects being able to transition between those dimensions, or the multiverse, and these objects being able to phase between universes, or the possibility that these are evidence of a yet undiscovered terrestrial intelligence vastly superior to our own. Some real science fiction in some of those theories and really conflict with what we think we know about our planet and universe. We're just talking about the basics of the subject at this point.