E.T. Exists!!!

Unfortunately, we have reached the end of humanity's knowledge on this topic. While we could debate all day about how protocells can be formed in a variety of ways, there is no conclusive proof that these protocells could turn into self-replicating cells. There simply hasn't been enough time and research devoted to this topic to pull any relevant sources of information from, so instead, I will be taking a separate approach in 4 different points. 1. Regularity of Commonness: Everything we thought to be unique and "special" has turned out not to be. Outside of life, everything else is not only common, but numerous. While we have yet to find a planet exactly like Earth, we haven't even scratched the surface of all the possible planets to look at. The amount of sky and the radius around our solar system we've studied is a microscopic sliver of the sum total of our galaxy. We've also only been looking at places where Earth-life might have formed and survive, we don't even have an idea of other ways Exolife could form. Relying on the formation of Amino Acids into complex RNA/DNA chains is just our way of projecting our bias and ignorance onto the universe. While we don't have another example of possible ways life could exist, we should be trying to find other chemicals that could combine and become self-replicating. It's quite possible that DNA isn't even necessary for life and is only one of a variety of ways. If we did find a creature that didn't have DNA but possessed something else, would we even classify it as life? If we only assumed that planets like Earth were planets, we would be doing a disservice to the likes of the mighty Jupiter and Saturn. If we only classified creatures with agency as living, we would be doing a disservice to plants and fungi. It may be entirely necessary to broaden our scope of what "life" is so that we don't miss out on a great finding. We should not ignore the constant negation of the naive notion of uniqueness that we've assumed for so long. 2. Intrinsic Connection: I wrote this a few months ago and I will share it here. Everything Spiritual is Psychological is Biological is Chemical is Atomic is Quantum. The difference between life and non-life is so close to nothing that it's a wonder we don't see rocks walking their rock-pugs around. The fact that a complex arrangement of non-living particles results in a living organism is simply mindblowing and it shows that there is nothing at all special about being "alive". The fact that a mixture of specific chemicals can produce emotions as invigorating as happiness, as powerful as anger, and as mysterious as love shows that the difference between what we've given "special" qualities to and ones we've denoted to be mundane is just an illusion. When we understand this, it opens up entirely new ideas about what's possible, and leaves us with the powers of a god once we can manipulate this intrinsic connection. 3. Missing Link: The Origin of Life, The Source of Consciousness, The Origin of Creation, and the Wants of Women are all unanswered questions that humans have been trying to answer since the first curious thought. After a great many years of study, testing, and theory creating, we have reached the Penultimate status of discovery for all of these things. We have discovered that the universe came from a singularity, that all life on earth came from one common ancestor, that all conscious thought comes from the chemical firing of neurons in the brain. But, we have yet to answer where the singularly came from, how the first life form came about, or how exactly a combination of neurotransmitters can produce something as incredible as thought. We have traveled a long road to reach this point and we are only getting better and faster with coming up with results, but we don't know the answers to these questions yet. Or, perhaps, we may never know the answers to these questions. Even if we searched the entirety of the universe for life and found none other, it still doesn't answer whether or not it could have formed in a different place than Earth, only that it didn't. Even if we traveled to the past as far we possibly could, we would never reach the point where the singularity existed alone, there was simply no time to have passed at that point. Even if we mapped every single neural connection point and tracked the movements of transmitters of a person their entire life, we would still not be able to predict what that person is thinking, only what they might be thinking. We are so close to the end that humanity can almost taste it, but it's just as likely that we will never reach the end as it is that we will, only time will tell if our technology allows us to transcend our current mental limitations. 4. Alternative Idea: I present an alternative idea, one that encompasses both of our arguments. There is no other intelligent life in the universe besides humanity. There is no Galactic Federation run by aliens, no Universal Trade Commission, no nothing we have imagined in science fiction novels... yet. WE are the first intelligent species, it is humanity that will spread life throughout the universe, it is humanity that will form a galactic federation and it is humanity that will foster the growth of living things into their own versions of intelligent life. There are no intelligent lifeforms right now, but with our eventual growth and spreading into the galaxy, we might become the instruments of change necessary for life to form elsewhere. It could be that one day, an alien child will look up at the stars and wonder if there is someone looking back, and it will be us. We certainly have enough time to accomplish this. I close this round by saying, we can ponder statistics and probabilities all day, but in the end, we don't know. We just don't freaking know, and it is our duty to find out.