Inferior Civilization?

Joe wrote:> No matter how many static factors you multiply in, it will still be a> static equation, and therefore fundamentally wrong (unless interstellar> colonization is forever impossible).Not if it comes out to > This connects to the Rare Earth Hypothesis. For whatever reason>> science shies away from this theory or paradigm. And the only>> people who are willing to advocate it are religious Christians!>> That's not entirely true. I'm traveling now, but I have a book at home,> written by real scientists, on this very topic... it's been a few years> since I looked at it, but I think this is the one:Yes I know all about this book. I guess I could have prefaced it by sayingwith the exception of Ward and Brownlee, the two "official" inventors ofthe Rare Earth theory.