>Hmmm, so where did the simpler life form come from? Where did the Earth come from? Why is it positioned so strategically in relationship to the sun so that we don't either burn up or freeze to death? Why does it rotate such that it does, etc. etc. etc.?
I prefer to think that life adapted to these specific conditions. At least, the other planets in the Solar System are not investigated thoroughly enough to completely rule out the possibility of any life form. The search for life has quite often concentrated on the life forms we know, and not given sufficient consideration for alien (i.e. different) life forms.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
