HuffPo: Discovery of Planet Outside Solar System Is 'Bad News For God'

newsbusters.org ^ | July 24, 2015 | Matthew Balan

[CyberAnt]

But, when we get to heaven, I do believe GOD will be holding classes on all that very, very interesting info.

I can hardly wait.

[CodeToad]

“And that’s ONE PLANET in the entire cosmos that we’ve been able to observe.”

Actually there are hundreds of candidates. This is just the first one that has had specific attention. There are many, many others.

[IronJack]

“Candidates.” That’s all. I’ll believe it when I see their spaceship double-parked outside Starbucks.

[CodeToad]

“I’ll believe it when I see their spaceship double-parked outside Starbucks.”

In other words, you have unrealistic expectations. No sense in discussing such things with the mind of a child.

[IronJack]

In other words, you have unrealistic expectations.

Yeah, one of us does. I'm not sure it's ME ...

No sense in discussing such things with the mind of a child.

Aw, don't be so hard on yourself.

[rikkir]

“Discovery of Planet Outside Solar System Is ‘Bad News For God”

This is the winner of my dumbest statement of the week award.

Thanks, please play again Huff(what, glue?)po.

[Sawdring]

14.

[Moonman62]

3 parts in 10 billion.

[Cementjungle]

If you look at our own planet, life has infested nearly every square inch of it. From the bottom of the oceans to the tops of the mountain and organisms have been found living 12 miles below the surface of the Earth's crust. We have barely begun to photograph the other bodies in our solar system with probes and can neither confirm nor deny that life lives outside of our own sphere.

So, if life came about by happenstance, then shouldn't it be abundant throughout the entire universe? In fact, wouldn't it be extremely difficult to find someplace out there that is completely devoid of any traces of past or current life?

[Sawdring]

We don’t know the conditions in which life started so we can only speculate on how common it is.

[Cementjungle]

We don’t know the conditions in which life started so we can only speculate on how common it is.

There are pretty much only two possibilities: either random happenstance, or God. If it's the former, then it should be happening all over the place. If it's the latter, then... well, we're all alone (except of course for God).

[Sawdring]

If it is by random happenstance it could happenstance very rarely and in very specific circumstances. If God did it, he/she could very well have created life in many places in this Universe.

[Cementjungle]

If it is by random happenstance it could happenstance very rarely and in very specific circumstances.

True. One might roll snake eyes with the dice 100 times in a row... that's possible indeed. But... it's not very likely.

I think that if luck created a spark of life on Earth and it permeated every nook and cranny on Earth, then sparks should be happening in some other places, and spreading there as well.

I'm all for looking everywhere we can... it's all interesting stuff. But, so far zilch...no signs of anything anywhere at all.

[Sawdring]

I hope we can develop probes that can look for life on Enceladus or Europa. Those two are at the top of the list for scientists to study when looking for life in the solar system.

Imagine a probe that lands, melts a hole 25 miles deep for an underwater submersible that can send data back to it's parent on the surface, and then relay what it finds back to Earth.

[dfwgator]

I hope we can develop probes that can look for life on Enceladus or Europa

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA / ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE

[Cementjungle]

We’ve come a long way in terms of technology and exploration of space in the last 100 years. Hopefully we’ll keep exploring.