The Case For Life On Jupiter (by BigBadJohnny)

The planet, Jupiter!

To those tired of my political tirades, this dusty!

In my on going effort to keep up to date on the world in general, and obscure philosophies in specific, I have used the current and most nouveau phrase, "intelligent design". Between ourselves, dear reader, I prefer "creationism". This idea of the Supreme Creator and Judge, sitting there, being "intelligent" gives me the quivers.
I've always been in awe at the diversity and proliferation of living things.
In the coldest reaches of the frozen arctic, we encounter seals, penguins, polar bears.
In the Amazon heat, all manner of Insects, snakes,and mammals.
Deep in the oceans, fish and living things beyond comprehension.
In the air, birds!
Underground, we find moles, worms, bats in caves...
Bats are awfully unique. As we know, They fly by sonar, emitting sounds which bounce back, guiding them on their way.
All these creatures, we are told, evolved over millions of years, the common link, microscopic strands of DNA.
Millions of years ago, a fish climbs onto the shore. He has the ability to utilize oxygen from water, or air.
This fish we then theorize, by the virtue of "survival of the fittest", evolved into all living things.
It's all so unlikely! I'm bewildered.
Maybe a Supreme Being - Intelligent Design - was lonely. He must be very well organized.
I recently published the foregoing article on evolution, and creationism. Because of the wonderful response to that, I shall continue.

Someone, reading that article, remarked on the wondrous nature of evolution. (Take any environment, add the potential for life, ...) "...mix thoroughly over time and you have self-replicating units, exquisitely adapted to their environments."
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, ...
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.
at this, a reader commented: "..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)