Re: Are we special?
Scarcity is just our perception. Just because we dont know if intelligent life form exists elsewhere or not, does not mean that we are a unique life form. In fact as I implied in my opening post, in an infinite system (our universe i.e), if an occurrence can happen once (creation of intelligent life form on our planet), then it can and will happen infinite times per the theory of probability. Even from the religious pov, it seems pretty pointless to create such a vast space to create one intelligent life form. I mean, just for us, an planet (or a solar system) in an incubated setup would be just fine. There would absolutely no need to have a universe that is 28 billion light years wide.