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Sorry, but that's nonsense. You really don't understand statistics at all if you think it's anywhere near 50/50. Good luck winning that game 500 times if your probability is 1%. You probably won't even win once in a thousand times. We do have prime conditions here. Again, read the book "Rare Earth." Look at the other eight planets in this solar system. Not so much as a bacterium found yet. Look at all the extrasolar planets found to date. No reputable scientist would tell you life is possible on them, given their masses, orbits, etc. It takes a lot to make a planet hospitable to sustained evolution, as the book above tells if you're just willing to read it rather than propound some pseudoscientific "if we all helped other species" theory. If technology and language don't imply intelligence, how will we ever find another intelligent species? They wouldn't be able to communicate meaningfully with no written language to record and transfer complex knowledge and even if they could, they wouldn't have radios. You claim every species on the planet could evolve intelligence if given a chance. The Homo genus has been around for about a million years. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 160 times as long but never showed any glimmer of intelligence and probably never would have. Some species that old are still around today. Know any intelligent crocodiles? Birds? Sharks after over 400 million years in the oceans? Even cetaceans have been around for almost 40 million years, yet nobody would expect a whale or dolphin to understand complex concepts.