I think we're much smaller than the Earth.
Trees don't move, yet they're living things.
Definition of a living thing:
1) It can reproduce
2) It is separated by a semipermeable membrane from the rest of the world
3) Can grow
No no, there could be one, but it will be unstable equilibrium
That's generally what scientists are hoping against.
Although Hawking didn't use aliens, he put it as a universe behaving by the will of God. Now I don't know how many of you believe in God, but if there is some unexplainable...
Everywhere outside this universe.
There is no evidence for or against it, but that doesn't mean that the same rules apply, for different universe may or may not have different properties.
By his logic, God made logic to disprove himself.
These assumptions are OK, but The Creator is not subject to his own creation, and thus memory by definition is what he is, as well as love mercy, and all the other stuff.
You think that just because the universe's properties apply in this universe, they apply everywhere. That is not the case.
A very good point. But the definition of free will has to be cleared up a bit.
The soul would choose a set of choices based on the possibilities it is given.
If the soul has to choose whether to kill a person by slitting their throat, or by smothering them, the fact that a choice isn't...