There is another simulation evaluation required. Not only has the planet been habitable, but the referenced evolution of life on the planet has gone from a cell to many varied life forms. You have a lucky habitable world inhabited by a lucky evolution of life. Combine the probabilities of both occurring. Is it probable without external intervention?

Yeah, "lucky"... Couldn't be that it was all created exactly this way to make scientism practitioners go absolutely insane... no, we need another few decades of them insisting we're all here by "chance". Nevermind the organic chemistry required to synthesize the necessary components is literally impossible to happen by "chance".

The recent ice ages were teeming with life. There was more exposed seabed in the tropics, and more oxygen in the surrounding seas. They only seem formidable in places that show glacial scars.

We are indeed fortunate to have this planetary orb as our home. Let's hope we don't blow it by the end of this century. It would make our alien overwatchers very disappointed.

Chance it may be,but if we were on any of the other simulated worlds,we wouldn't know it,because we wouldn't have evolved. Yes,Eezy,it is possible. There are more habitable worlds in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of this world,and more uninhabitable worlds than all the sand on a million earths. The universe is bigger than our tiny minds can grasp.

When you consider the billions of solar systems with planets in our galaxy, and the billions of galaxies in the universe, it seems very likely that the accident of life has occurred many times throughout the universe. Indeed, it has occurred many times on our planet. Nature is truly amazing.

That's not the way to think of the odds. Life is nearly impossibly unlikely, sure, but the universe is very big and very old. Ours is the one chance out of uncounted quadrillions that /did/ end up with us developing. And our time is our timeframe. The odds are actually 1:1, /because/ we're here to marvel at how unlikely we are. In all the gazillions of places and times where there isn't and wasn't intelligent life, there's nobody doing any marveling (or praying) at all.

When science looks at the incredible balance of required elements and "laws of nature", not to mention the incredible balance in space for the worlds to even exist; it's been DESIGNED that way, & we have not, and never will, discover any other inhabitable planet; God designed in this way in His plan.
Law of Entropy proves evolution to be crap.

We are here by happenstance. What morality we assume to have is a product of our own hubris. When we die there is nothing. Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?

"New research"? One might take a look at the book "Rare Earth, by Ward and Brownlee published in 2003. Truly comprehensive, it examines many of the truly rare characteristics that make our planet habitable. I am sure that was the original basis for this new work, combined with the many results of the Kepler exoplanet search- all those planets, but none (so far) have the necessary attributes. The original Drake equation was ridiculously optimistic.