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My opponent states that we have no evidence at all for extraterrestrial life, which is false. However, his source was Professor Marcy from California explaining that 40 billion planets are in the habitable life zone. He states that the number is loose, and it could be oversold. Your other source states that 60 billion planets in the Milky Way alone could support life, which is pretty much my argument. Now, to explain how we have found some evidence for life. What Marcy meant was that we do not have good irrefutable evidence. We do have some unexplained evidence and evidence of traits of life. For example, the wow signal. 35 years later, this signal from deep space still perplexes scientists [1]. It was 30x louder than background radio noise, and was artificial. It also went up and down during the 72 second span, all which point towards to extraterrestrial life trying to communicate. Not to mention that evidence for life on Mars is coming in almost daily, everything from water, a rat, to a bright light [2]. Also, Europa may contain an underwater lake that is suitable for life. Note this is all in our OWN solar system (8 planets), which means we have found evidence for life on 1/4 of planets (or their moons. ) Note our solar system is about 8/60,000,000,000 planets that may contain life in the Milky Way. My opponent goes on to state that for something to evolve, there needs to be a plant. We have not proven this, as there are a variety of theories from life from a meteorite on Mars [3] from other aliens creating us. In fact, in the early creation of Earth, even an electric spark could have logically started life [4]. A lot of theories state that hydrogen-rich molecules were the basis of life. All of these could make a single cell, easily. Thus, your % chance of evolution is very low. Also, I have already successfully put your chances of evolution into my equation and easily made it work, still with low numbers. You have yet to refute that. Then, he states that extreme on Earth is different than extreme in the universe. He does not state evidence for his claim. We are talking about Earth-like planets, almost the same distance away from the sun, so -456F is not likely at all (a. k. a 2 degrees Kelvin. ) Second, life adapts over time in evolution to better sustain to their own environment. So a cell surviving in 200F waters could be the same as a cell on another planet surviving in 700F waters (even though it is not likely that such high temp would happen). That's your own logic, isn't it? To refute my opponent's next statement, all I have to do is explain the wording of the resolution. It states that intelligent life "exists. " Nowhere does it state that it has to exist in live form. It could exist in fossilized form, decayed form, etc. In fact, the wording of the resolution allows it to exist in completely decayed form, such as simple dirt. Even if this is false, I can still easily fit this into my equation:(1e+24)(0.027= (2.7e+22)(2.7e+22)(0.000005) = 1.35e+17(1.35e+17)(0.000001) = 135000000000(135000000000)(0.000001)= 135,000(135)(1/100000) = 1.35Now, I would like to explain just how unlikely my numbers in my equation are. I have refuted the evolution part. But, I have not explained the communication part. The % of intelligent life that would be able to communicate and have the desire and means to is about 10-20% [4]. My equation puts it at just 0.0000001, which is significantly lower than the lowest estimate. With the lowest estimate, these are the results (from the equation above):(1e+24)(0.027= (2.7e+22)(2.7e+22)(0.000005) = 1.35e+17(1.35e+17)(0.000001) = 135000000000(135000000000)(0.10)= 13500000000(13500000000)(1/100000) = 135,000So even with taking in my opponent's easily-refuted low statistics, we still end up with 135,000 planets that are both intelligent and have the ability to communicate (and will communicate. ) I thank you for reading, and eagerly await my opponent's response! [1] . http://www.universetoday.com...[2] . http://www.space.com...[3] . http://www.nasa.gov...[4] . http://www.newrealities.com...