re: #123 Gus

Well sure. Sort of like there could also be other inhabitable planets out there that can sustain mammalian life forms. Or even reptilian life forms. That doesn’t mean there would “intelligent” life on those planets either and billions of years away from a human like species. All of this of course is based on the organized randomness of nature anyway since there is no grand architecture, make that architect, behind it all.

Self replication with modification, energy sources and trial and error will frequently produce something we can label ‘life’.