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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 09:52 PM
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8. Well, if we manage to travel to a sentient-inhabited planet, don't you think we will have
figured out how to adapt to different environments, or at least how to mitigate/compensate our biology so that we can interact and even live there? Or, if it's a somewhat habitable planet, but not inhabited by beings with DNA title to it, don't you think that, by then, we would have figured out how to make it comfortable for earthlings?

You are extrapolating travel to other planets without extrapolating forward the advances in technology and biological understanding that would likely occur simultaneously with the technical progress that would make space travel possible.

Also, I agree that the Earth created us, but so did the Universe. We are critters of both. And there is fast-increasing evidence that there may be many earths out there.
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