Jammer Wrote:
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> Isn't it more likely that life needs certain basic
> building blocks that, once available, must fall
> like dominos in increasing complexity to fill as
> many evolutionary niches as possible to assure
> it's survival?
>
> Jammer



This is a virtual certainty.

My contention is simply that in almost all places life never
has a chance to evolve from scratch because when conditions
are acceptable it becomes seeded from without. This seed in
our case was a highly developed one that could change to adapt
to virtually any enviroment.

There may well be true terrestrial life since life on this
planet has two trunks. The natives are all extremely simple
species with one being a bacterium which eats sulpher from
undersea vents. These would in time have evolved into advan-
ced life forms but it's difficult to get much purchase in a
used petrie dish.



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