>it's a 50/50 proposition, either we have the only miracle of life in existence, or it's prolific. This seems like a false dichotomy. There could be 200 billio

>it's a 50/50 proposition, either we have the only miracle of life in existence, or it's prolific. This seems like a false dichotomy. There could be 200 billion planets with life in the universe...but only about one per galaxy. Someone did a probabilistic analysis of the Drake equation, and found out that indeed, given the known facts (that we don't see any life yet, how life appears to have developed on earth) that a substantial likelihood exists that the density of life is right in the range where there are many instances but we will never see one. It's sad to never get closure, but it's irrational to deny it's a possibility.