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The reason for the original spiritual beliefs in the first man was basically there to explain the inexplicable, imo. In this age of science this is no longer really needed.

I read a really good book by Ben Bova lately called Saturn, where a team of scientists, while exploring the rings of Saturn, found micro organisms present. They were considering harvesting this ice, but decided that it should remain unmolested because of the life forms.

Kind of reminds me of following the prime directive...

If anyone has seen the BBC series Blue Planet, we see that there are very severe conditions in even our ecosystem which support life against all probability. This goes to show just how much life wants to happen. I think that this could be added as further evidence that life exists when any untold amount of conditions are met.