Michael Brown wrote:

>(sorry to be long winded as usual but hey it's OT)
>I firmly stand behind scientific method and "real" science.  As you pointed
>out, it is the scientists with which I have a problem.  For years I have
>listened to assertions and mathematical claims (statistical) that life
>"must" only exist on the earth since the entire universe would have been
>filled with life by now.
...........


What you raised are all good questions, mostly for which there are
currently no good answers. Science works incrementally, a little
step at a time. Theories change daily. Egos get in the way. That's
human nature.

It takes a long time and a lot of work to tackle these issues. It
is only since the Hubble Telescope - just a decade now - that
we are really beginning to see the "big" picture concerning the
universe. This one instrument alone has widened the possibilities
immensely.

Maybe all of these open questions are better viewed as cause
for further conjecture, rather than cause for asking why all of
the answers aren't already known. Most of these questions, and/or
their progeny, will still be here when you and I are both dead.

best regards,
- dan
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