This Father is an excellent connoisseur of the past.

"Look at them. They assume we live on one of the scorched planets because they beat the odds and evolved on one, unlike the rest of the universe that didn't".

Socialists and leftists in the distant past thought so; anything that wasn't what they believed in, they didn't see, they didn't read.

"Who can tell? For all we know, they might drink molten ice".

As long as there was ice to melt.