You need to go back and read my post a bit more closely. I didn't espouse a position, but rather presented both perspectives. I did not say which one I thought was right. You obviously inferred something from my post that I did not say.
What I did say is correct. Evolutionists need for there to be life on other planets. To those who adhere to some form of ID, it's not important. To this point they would say all the research has only further solidified that there is something divinely special about life on this planet. However, if scientists ever do actually discover life on another planet (not just evidence that suggests life may be possible), they'll just shrug it off and say God put it there. So I'm just not sure it really matters to them one way or the other.
My only question in all of this, irrespective of any philosophical issues is: what difference will it make? Say they find bacteria teeming in the atmosphere of Venus. What will that mean?
I just find a lot of this stuff to be humorous. Every so often, you'll see a headline proclaiming that scientists have a discovered an earth-like planet. Then you find out it's like 30 billion light years away and while it may be appropriately distanced from it's "sun", it's got some crazy properties that would make it utterly inhospitable to life. Yet, they're all excited about it.
I don't know what it all means, but scientists around the world have been searching the cosmos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for decades and have come up with nothing more that some chemicals that may be suggestive of life.