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I recently published at this site an article on evolution, and creationism. Because of the wonderful response to that, I am following up with this:

Wolfgang: "mix thoroughly over Time and you have self-replicating units exquisitely adapted to their environments."
whew. I wish I had said that.
If we follow that logic, would there not be potential for life in the gaseous clouds of other planets?
Imagine thinking beings that doubtless, find great rolling clouds of hydrogen, and helium as beautiful as we find sun, clouds, day, night, summer, winter, ...

Jupitor dominates the night !

Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus). It has been known since prehistoric times as a bright "wandering star".
The gas planets do not have solid surfaces, their gaseous material simply gets denser with depth
Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium . This is very close to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the entire solar system was formed. Saturn has a similar composition, but Uranus and Neptune have much less hydrogen and helium.

OCeallaigh: "..Which is why Earth is, to date, the only celestial body with evidence for life."

I'm thinking, our research is still in it's infancy. Some of us were born at a time when th universe was romantic and exhilliarating. We hadn't set foot on the moon, Mars had canals, and as readers of Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, et al can confirm , there was a daily potential for travel to other worlds, and visitation from their remarkable inhabitants.

There are billions of stars in the Milky Way, and in the Universe, Infinity. I don't subscribe to Einsteins finit universe. I think it extends forever, and always has. Given infinite stars, there are certainly other worlds out there!

(For the purists, in an infinite universe, there are an infinite number of earth like planets. Again,thats not just infinity of space, but also of time)

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