NASA predicts alien life could be found by 2025

CBS News ^ | 04/08/2015 | By MICHAEL CASEY

[Talisker]

That old fart Hoagland is still kicking around? I thought he'd be putting around Leisure World in a golf cart if he was still drawing air at this point.........

Yep, he's still around collecting ad hominem attacks because people can't refute his evidence.

[RoosterRedux]

What about the angelic realm?

[muir_redwoods]

Spectroanalysis of an exoplanets atmosphere can show life indicators such as oxygen in high concentrations.

[muir_redwoods]

Its too bad the bible never said anything about humility and not tempting the lord.

[Crim]

I didnt say I agreed with the NASA prediction.

I said that finding other life would not shatter my beliefs.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/vatican-astronomer-says-alien-life-will-be-discovered-but-will-not-prove-or-disprove-god-126813/

[Crim]

If string theory proves to be true...then there are least 10 other dimensions beyond our own that we cannot perceive.

I have always said that one day science will validate what we already take on faith.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“Life indicators” is a long way from proving life.

[Jewbacca]

“Human life” out there? Wow you are confused.

[Jewbacca]

Nope. If it’s not in the Bible, then it doesn’t exist.

That’s why airplanes, microwave ovens, the moon landing and vaccines are the work of the Devil!

(yes, sarcastic mockery of the Luddites)

[plain talk]

I agree the Bible makes no explicit statements as to the existence or non-existence of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. For that reason, Christians would have nothing to fear if alien life were truly discovered.

Agreed. There are many other matters and mysteries the Bible does not address as well. It is not a science book. It is God's universe and God can create life wherever and whenever He chooses.

[muir_redwoods]

Broadly speaking, life indicators is what a pregnancy test delivers

[Blood of Tyrants]

You just want to argue, don’t you?

[muir_redwoods]

No. I’m simply making the point that often the concept of “proof” for some people exceeds the limits of reason. High concentration of oxygen in an atmosphere create a reducing atmosphere the reacts with iron and other common elements. Unless continuously replenished by some mechanism, high amounts of oxygen don’t linger long, geologically, in any atmosphere. Oxygenating mechanisms other than plant life are difficult to describe. High amounts of methane in the presence of oxygen are likewise temporary unless continuously replenished.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think this is unlikely, because alien life, or its communications, not only have to cross vast distances, but great lengths of time as well.

To explain the latter, the universe is something like 14 billion years old. The human ability to send or receive any messages through space is probably less than a hundred years.

The entirety of human civilization is likely less than 6,000 years. An important consideration of intelligent civilization is how long it can last. If it can only last 100,000 year on average, or even a million years, galactic empires could have risen and fallen, leaving not a trace behind.

There are many cosmic events that can sterilize entire sectors of space, such as a supernova, which could wipe out every form of life, even microorganisms, for hundreds or perhaps thousands of parsecs around.

Then there are theories that life might only be able to exist and develop in the “middle band” of a spiral galaxy, not too close to the center or the edge.

[Theophilus]

I said that finding other life would not shatter my beliefs.

I agree with you. Why should it shatter anyone's beliefs? However, given what we know about time and energy and what we know we don't know about guessing at astronomical distances, I'd be surprised man ever finds life anywhere else in the universe.

What would not surprise me would be if some moonbeam tried to fake an B.S. alien contact to establish some neo-pagan "extra-terrestrial" basis of spiritual authority like: "We've objectively assessed your situation and you are surely in imminent jeopardy of climate change" and furthermore and not to mention that "Jesus Christ is surly not alive and well in all his bodily glory, seated at the right hand of Father and chomping at the bit to return to iniquitous Earth to judge the living and the dead."

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I predict they’re wrong.

[defconw]

I hope they are smarter then most of the ones running the country now.

[UCANSEE2]

The Bible is the infallible word of the one and only omniscient creator God of the universe.

Good thing he wrote it in English.

[Theophilus]

The Bible is the most translated text in history and the consensus of meaning among Christians of all the nations is very good. Interestingly enough, in translating the Bible, Tyndale introduced new words and phrases which had a dramatic effect on the evolution of the English language:

• lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil
• knock and it shall be opened unto you
• twinkling of an eye
• a moment in time
• fashion not yourselves to the world
• seek and you shall find
• eat, drink and be merry
• ask and it shall be given you
• judge not that you not be judged
• the word of God which liveth and lasteth forever
• let there be light
• the powers that be
• my brother's keeper
• the salt of the earth
• a law unto themselves
• filthy lucre
• it came to pass
• gave up the ghost
• the signs of the times
• the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
• live and move and have our being
• fight the good fight

In a real sense you could say that God, the Creator of all languange, wrote English in the Bible.