Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by GonzoSinister
so yes i will give you we can only use earth as an example but it is exactly like me looking out my window to my back garden and saying there is no
plants on earth because in my back garden you can only see gravel!!
That's not the same analogy. It would be more like me looking out the window into the back garden and seeing a diamond the size of a car there, and
without knowing how it got there assuming there must be a similar diamond in many, many other back gardens because there's one in mine and the
conditions in the other gardens are essentially the same.
Well that would be a justifed thing to think!!
you can only base it on the tiny amount of outside you can see, as you are aware there is no conditions diffrent in the surrounding gardens, and you
presume the Diamond grew in your back garden that would infact be a completley justified conclusion to be drawn from your over night garden
diamond!!
then if you asked two neighbours if they had a diamond and they said no, you look at the other billion gardens with similar atmospheres and conditions
as yoru you would expect to see a diamond in many more gardens!!
Only after thourouly exploring 40/50% of these gardens anf finding nothing could you then come to the conclusion yours was possibly a one off.
But then you couldnt gaurentee that you would then need to look at the 100 billion other gardens with entirley diffrent conditions to your and take
ahuge sample 20/30% but actually to be sure more like 50/60% that no other varient of the giant car dianmond or another large very similar carbon
based Giant product had appeared over night.
Then you owul have to look for equally as giant none carbon based occurances in all the gardens starting from point one again,
Then to prove no other diamond of any sort could grow anywhere go back to garden one again and prove a tiny little diamond didnt exsist there.
then you would need to look for an equally tiny varient of anything carbon in any of the billion equal condition gardens and then in the hundered
billion on equal condition garden...
you understand the complexity of searching the universe now?
edit on 9-11-2011 by GonzoSinister because: (no reason given)