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::::From the theological aspect, I think C. S. Lewis wrote some interesting fiction assuming that Earth was the only planet where the Fall happened--the aliens were JUST FINE until humans went and messed things up for them.  As for the habitability zone, don't assume that life can't possibly exist anywhere just because it would be uncomfortable to your grandmother.  Remember those heat-vent worms I mentioned?  Their preferred ecological niche is around volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean, in ''boiling sulfuric acid'' at pressures that would crush wimps like you or me flat.
 
::::From the theological aspect, I think C. S. Lewis wrote some interesting fiction assuming that Earth was the only planet where the Fall happened--the aliens were JUST FINE until humans went and messed things up for them.  As for the habitability zone, don't assume that life can't possibly exist anywhere just because it would be uncomfortable to your grandmother.  Remember those heat-vent worms I mentioned?  Their preferred ecological niche is around volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean, in ''boiling sulfuric acid'' at pressures that would crush wimps like you or me flat.
 
::::Marvelous stuff, nature.  It's part of why I find most religion's "supernatural" so unconvincing--it's not even as weird as the things we KNOW exists. --[[User:Gulik5|Gulik5]] 11:43, 19 April 2008 (EDT)
 
::::Marvelous stuff, nature.  It's part of why I find most religion's "supernatural" so unconvincing--it's not even as weird as the things we KNOW exists. --[[User:Gulik5|Gulik5]] 11:43, 19 April 2008 (EDT)
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:::::# Don't confuse allegory (and fiction!) with legitimate scientific modeling.
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:::::# We have by now established that Mars and Venus are uninhabited.
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:::::# You haven't even begun to build a model for extremophilic intelligent life forms.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 13:12, 19 April 2008 (EDT)
    
(EDT){{cquote|Pay no attention to the man working the muppet waldoes! The Great ET has spoken!}}
 
(EDT){{cquote|Pay no attention to the man working the muppet waldoes! The Great ET has spoken!}}
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