According to the Journal of Cosmology (albeit an amateurish looking journal, but all the same still respected) Dr R Hoover has discovered microbial life in fossils predating Firma Tera itself!
The official statement that precedes the article from the editor of the Journal by Dr. R Schild Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian asks for peer review from experts in this area of study:
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HAHA, this has been a firestorm all over the news. I don’t understand how we can be so intellectual and not want to believe we are the only life in the entire universe. Sounds like somebody has a BIG complex!
If we aren’t alone in the universe, it means that “God didn’t make us so special and superior”.
Well I don’t know about you, but I’m superior special, but I forgive yah 
The longer answer is that finding life, especially intelegent life, would engender great philosophical and theological debate about the validity of long held beliefs.