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I read an interesting point in a book by Richard Dawkins (the world's leading evolutionary biologist author, in case you didn't know). People go on about how incredibly unlikely life is. Truth is, we have no way of knowing how unlikely it is until we survey the whole universe and see how many times life has sprung up. All we do know is that it can't be too unlikely for the basic fact is that we are here. And if we are here, who are we to say that it can't happen anywhere else? That would be a rather arrogant thing to say, don't you think?
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I don't think it would be arrogant. Life IS pretty damn special. If you deconstruct a simple cell, you begin to realise that it's like deconstructing a swiss watch. That kinda thing is so complex that it's borderline impossible to occur naturally without intelligent design - that's why intelligent design is such a powerful theory at the moment.
I think it's reasonable to consider life here on earth to be very unique, and we will never be able to say how unique it is until we work out how life is created. And the chances of that happening are slim to none.