Carbon is life. It's not an accident. It's the only element that can be used to build something like our bodies. It bonds with itself, has lots of positions to bond other items, and it's mostly neutral so it can readily reconfigure into new structures and compounds.
There's nothing else in the table that can do this. Silicon has been proposed, but it's not as neutral, and tends to not be as chemically flexible as carbon.
All life forms are carbon based sooo…
Carbon is life. It's not an accident. It's the only element that can be used to build something like our bodies. It bonds with itself, has lots of positions to bond other items, and it's mostly neutral so it can readily reconfigure into new structures and compounds.
There's nothing else in the table that can do this. Silicon has been proposed, but it's not as neutral, and tends to not be as chemically flexible as carbon.