The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

I seriously doubt any sensible scientist considers
humans "supreme beings"; Stephen J.Gould never tired
of reminding readers that Darwin implied "never say
'higher' or 'lower' " when comparing creatures - each
animal has the stuff it needs to make it best suited
to it's survival needs... a human is no "higher" than
a clam from this vieew of life...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> On 15/10/2005 Otto wrote:
> 
> > All these estimations necessarily must go wrong
> because we have no 
> > single piece of "evidence" of any other
> "developed" life somewhere 
> > else.
> 
> I think the scientists working in this field would
> argue that the 
> development of life on earth is all the evidence
> that is required to 
> form the hypotheses.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> it's a little but egotistical, if not downright
> solipsistic, to 
> >> assume for oneself the mantle of supreme being in
> all of existence.
> >
> > Indeed, if there's a more intelligent species than
> mankind on our 
> > planet it might have been so intelligent to hide
> this fact (or itself) 
> > before us!
> 
> Well, no, I meant elsewhere than this planet.
> Opposable thumbs seems to 
> have been the big breakthrough here.
> 
> best
> 
> 



		
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