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God's pass mark - 11%

I guess someone will knock this down as an old argument... but here goes anyway. Forty years of space probes have established that so far there is no sign of a possibility of life on the other planets in our solar system. There's some evidence that conditions on moons of Jupiter and Saturn could be suitable for some form of life - at least that able to survive in extreme conditions in water, as many life forms on Earth do - but not a smidgeon of a hint that any other planet or body in the solar system is likely to support anything as complex as an earthworm, let alone intelligent life. Seems to me there are two possibilities for the evolution of the solar system resulting in the planet with a warm, oxygen-rich atmosphere, carbon cycle, liquid water and everything else essential to our existence. 1) God set the mechanisms or directed the rocks to clump together, or materialised the earth, the other eight or nine planets and the galaxies beyond out of nothing on the first day or; 2)...