Hmmmm......much as I'd enjoy such a discussion with you, it's somewhat out of the purview of this forum.  Plus right now I just don't have the time to do it justice.

I will say this much: it's yet to be proven that life now does -- or that it ever has -- existed on Mars.  So in part it's operating on the basis of an assumption.

The fact that the Earth, along with all of its life, exists here in no way, shape, or form "proves" that such a phenomenon therefore simply must also exist elsewhere.  Such thinking is based upon nothing but faith: for all of the attributions to 'science'.

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