are we alone in the universe?

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

...in response to the last post the statment was that we didnt know how amino acids were created not DNA.

it becomes a chicken/egg problem. DNA based single cell organisms can take oxygen, carbon, hydrogen... and build its own amino acids, its own protien strands, and create a complete perfect copy of itself

but anything less than that one cell organism cant - cant build any of the molecules needed

so that puts you back down to random chance - back to the 1E350 probability of it happening at random

it only has to happen at random once, in the right place, and the spark of life is ignited. All life on the planet can be the result of that one spark

but it has to happen spontainiously at least once.