First ya say hardly habitable, then it's, "Perhaps marginally"... No offense, but the only fact known here, is that you have *no* idea what type of life may or may not exist on that particular planet...
His statement is basically, if there is water, there is life. This is a huge leap that is unsupported by evidence.
I agree with that and will say there very well might be life forms that do not require water, and might require something else all together to survive.
We do see life most places on Earth where there is water, however, we’ve never found life anywhere else in the universe, so we can associate the presence of water and the presence of life only on Earth with any degree of certainty.
I'm not sure what this means..As we don't have the capability to even search the "universe" let alone our very own galaxy.
“First ya say hardly habitable, then it’s, “Perhaps marginally”...”
Yes, I decided to be generous and grant that it MIGHT be marginally habitable.
“No offense, but the only fact known here, is that you have *no* idea what type of life may or may not exist on that particular planet...”
Exactly, and neither does the gentleman whose quoted I was speaking of, and yet he declared with certainty that if there was water there, there would be life.
“I’m not sure what this means..As we don’t have the capability to even search the “universe” let alone our very own galaxy.”
Well, it means: we have only found life on Earth, so the situation on Earth is therefore the only situation in which we can reasonably judge a relation between water and life. Simply because, on Earth, life and water have a relationship, doesn’t mean that relationship would hold true anywhere else. It’s an unsupportable assumption.