So where's the bacteria outcompeting moon dust?
Theories which make life inevitable are inherently shaky because we have 1 sample.
Theories which make life inevitable are inherently shaky because we have 1 sample.
In fact as far as we know - most of the space in the universe is doing the dissipation in a very inefficient way.
Which means the theory that it will do it simply because of the "selection pressure" is empirically wrong.
Let's say a huge asteroid sterilized Earth 100 years ago. What could the life do to outcompete that? Was it the result of this "selection pressure" that it didn't or was it simply result of starting conditions and gravity?
This theory seems to provide almost no predictive value it just takes a thing that happened once and makes a story about how it had to happen.
Again, this is not true. We have empirical evidence that life on Earth began as soon as it could. And the universe doesn't spontaneously do things as you're wishing it to do to support your argument.
> Let's say a huge asteroid sterilized Earth 100 years ago. What could the life do to outcompete that?
That doesn't negate anything. Entropy increases over time. Given the various conditions available in the universe, its processes follow that directive relevant to their conditions.
That's the whole point. The theory reduces to "if conditions are right life will happen" which moves the whole predictive power to the "conditions are right" and leaves the theory with 0 value added.