You are very, very close to simply restating the Watchmaker Argument in favor of the existence of a Divine Being.
Not at all. The problem with the Watchmaker Argument wasn’t the observation that humans are highly optimized; it was the conclusion that, therefore, it was God. And God is a very different hypothesis from alien intelligence in a universe we already know has the capability of producing intelligence.
Not at all. The problem with the Watchmaker Argument wasn’t the observation that humans are highly optimized; it was the conclusion that, therefore, it was God. And God is a very different hypothesis from alien intelligence in a universe we already know has the capability of producing intelligence.