"Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ."

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Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.

— Stephen Jay Gould