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I have done a bit of research in astrobiology (in essence, the study of possibility of life in various environments outside Earth) in the past, and when you work in a field like this, you are tempted to succumb to thinking that aliens' existence is almost certain, for by nature of the field the vast majority of published papers will talk about possibility of life in the most extreme environments. However, it is important to remember that possibility/likelihood of something based on very rough models does not imply its possibility/likelihood in the real world. However fascinating the field is, however many scientists enter it every year, the ultimate conclusion as of now is, "We have no idea".
Now, if we do discover extraterrestrial life, that will be an enormous piece of the puzzle. It will not exactly say anything about "god", but it will suggest that life on Earth is not at all unique or special, so ancient religions should crumble given that they all state that "god"(s) gave special attention to humanity. Of course, there will probably still be people who will disbelieve the documented existence of aliens (much like many disbelieve that the Earth is not flat), or people who will find new tortured interpretations of the original texts to include extraterrestrials in them - but such people will likely be in the minority. I would expect new religions to emerge, ones that focus not on humanity as a special species, but, perhaps, on the Milky Way as a special galaxy, or the Universe as a special world.
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I agree there is no strong case for either. In a very minor sense of the word however, it seems the only real evidence we have points to possible theoretical circumstances for alien life forms. We have no way to even define what a god could be.
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2
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There exist no reason for life to exist on earth other than it emerged after billions of years of cosmic evolution. And no your god of the gaps doesn't explain what we don't know. Science does as facts are discovered through the processes.
Interesting concept; can an atheists logical rejection of the god of your book match the pride you so arrogantly litter the board with while hurling childish insults?
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Perhaps in the future, when we start travelling across the galaxy, we will be able to go on safaris on millions of planets full of funky animals - but will never meet another spacefaring civilization.
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That is a good point. I often thought life in general would be hard to find considering how much time and space would need to be covered. Then add intelligent life? Obviously from the some arguments I've heard we're still in the 'progression of acquiring intellect stage'.
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Oh, certainly, from the point of view of the hypothetical spacefaring civilization, we are little more than monkeys with sticks.
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What the eff are you talking about?
God hasnt even been proven in the first place.
Jee ziz your full of crap.
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And of course if any one with half a brain takes the time to analize the origin of that so called newspaper clipping they would see that it was completely made up and doctored.
So once again you have been court out good and proper for spamming and being dishonest so it wont be long before you get kicked out again will it?
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@RickeyHoltsclaw
You're very lucky aarong tolerates brainwashed evangelical MAGAmaniac trolls.
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Bottom line I'm willing to state on the record that it's most likely by the slimmest of margins that aliens will be discovered first. Maybe a meaningless philosophical point of discussion but an interesting one to me regardless.
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Sorry, thought you were Barnadot as the OP lol. I will admit I said dum because I don't like that guy lmao.
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As a coder, its pretty easy to identify code. There are lots of different languages, and I can't always tell you which coding language it is, but I can tell it is code. The thing about code is that just a small error can disable the whole code and make it not function. Same goes for genes and DNA. If you walk into a room and there are scrabble letters on the table that say 'You are a jerk' (I'm just joking with you). you could reason that by the law of probabilities that it is possible the letters randomly fell out of the bag that way, or you could think 'somebody who knows me did this'. Which is more likely? When you look at DNA code, even the simplest lifeforms DNA strand is far more complex than random chance has been able to explain. Its complexity is why Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA claimed that panspermia was more likely than life originating on earth.
Now, the odds certainly suggest an intelligence is behind them. To believe what @FactFinder does, I'd have to throw my brain out and believe that the universe came from nothing. Do you know what comes from nothing - nothing. I'd have to believe in magic. That time itself is magic. And that if you just give something enough time - abracadabra - you get life. Instead I chose to keep my brain and use it. It seems much more likely from the fine tuning of the universe, to the complexity of human life, to the fact the universe had a beginning, that there is a God, than not.
Alien life's existence is not necessarily tied to God's existence. Though considering the complexity of a life permitting universe, it is much more likely that alien life is more probable if a God exists, but the same logic does not hold the other way.
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One fascinating idea I had once (and even thought of making a paper out of it - I tend to come up with wild ideas like this that live in my head for a week or two and then die) is that if we live in a simulation run by "higher" beings (essentially gods), then there could be a way to determine that our world is simulated. It is based on the fact that the simulation might not be perfect, there could be small bugs and aberrations - which could be detectable. Much like a poorly written computer program sometimes produces gibberish, we could observe some clear anomalies in the world that simply do not fit into anything we already know. Something like us seeing a star 10,000 light years away from us, and then one day just teleporting to a clearly different location. Or having the air temperature somewhere on Earth for a short period of time be nonsensically high (100,000 Kelvin) without producing all the effects this hot plasma does.
In such case we could actually call these things "miracles", although in reality they would just be bugs. Of course, it could also be that the "higher" beings can somehow directly intervene in the simulation, in which case they would function exactly like the Greek gods.
I do not think that this idea is worth seriously exploring at the moment given complete lack of evidence of any of that taking place - but it is nice to be open to the idea that on a very fundamental level the world is not what we see. After all, we can only observe the world through our 5 senses, and for all we know the world could just be a projection of something more complicated. The "holographic Universe" theory is quite prominent nowadays, after all.
I also do not think that we should anthropomorphize our models too much. Even if the Universe is a simulation in some sense, it is very unlikely that the "computer" it runs on has anything in common with our computers - it would even not be embedded in our spacetime, and the world in which it "lives" would be absolutely incomprehensible to human mind.
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Regards to your god of the gaps speech, not evidence. Nothing about the study of astronomy, the cosmos, gravitational fields, physics, quantum physics, biology, hematology, chemo biology and so on... points to a single design or designer. Also 'nothing' is an illusion where space, matter and energy are concerned. I'm sure you're choosing to misrepresent Roger Penrose because if he's an atheist he would not very likely agree his observation of a mathematical concept leads to your myth daddy. There is no evidence of 'fine tuning' in the universe. Only constant recombing of sub atomic particles and miniscule explosions which over billions of years allowed chemicals to emerge and their reactions till finally the recombing of dna... All more logical than saying 'thor did it'.
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There are no "aliens"...only brief interactions between the Spiritual Realm and the Physical Realm...these are not "aliens" but demons and/or the faithful angelic interacting within the Realm of Time by permission.
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