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Originally Posted by DWB
How can you write that with a straight face? That sort of comment sounds like something that would be said by someone who believes earth is the center of the universe.
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My point was simple. "Life on somewhere else in the universe" when it comes to a simple issue of mathematical probability is almost certain.
"Life that's highly advanced and capable of intergalactic travel and that has visited this planet" is an entirely different equation.
Our existence on this earth has been for approx 10-20 million years. As one example, there have been quite a few cosmic events that have nearly destroyed this planet and destroyed most life on it (not to mention the radical climate and atmospheric changes and so on). As one simple example, that is something that a form of life would have to survive to evolve and advance and that adds to the odds against that happening.
What I was saying is that in addition to the simple assumption that life must exist out there somewhere, there is a whole other set of conditions that must be met for that life in whatever form it is, to advance and evolve to the point where its mastered space travel over such vast distances. 1:X planets similar to earth has little to do with the actual probability of life not just existing somewhere but evolving to the point where its capable of traveling to earth from another corner of the universe and telling a bunch of baby killers how to move rocks.
Relying on the statement that "Statistically, there has to be intelligent life out there" is ignoring the sheer enormity of the odds against.
One could argue that what we know about quantum physics tells us that you also have a 100% chance of walking straight through your bathroom door. Relying on that fact to rationalize trying to do so, ignores the fact that the odds of doing it successfully are so remote, that it will never happen.
Odd that someone who is so resistant to the notion of God, is so open to the blind faith of intergalactic space traveling aliens. I don't personally see a difference, as both require a great deal of faith to believe in. It's simply a question of what one
chooses to believe.