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Originally Posted by downquark1
I gave a logical argument for the existence of other life based on limited information.
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I was a reasonable example and an attempt at a logical one but the logic didn't work. You failed to resolve a logical truth from it becasue you had set it up with dirty data.
You could have gone down the road of:
There is life on Earth
Bacteria has been discovered on Mars (Hence Life)
Therefore the is life on other planets.
I only take issue with the "logical likelyhood" of ray gun weilding aliens. The example by TheDon given previously was a myriad of stepping stones in logic which was reasonable but not logical per se. The initial premise led from one maybe statement to another much like chinese whispers.
I agree that it is likely that sentient existence exists on one or more planets in the universe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...New-Earth.html