Posted on 08/06/2007 4:52:45 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Editor's Note: We asked several scientists from various fields what they thought were the greatest mysteries today, and then we added a few that were on our minds, too. This article is one of 15 in LiveScience's "Greatest Mysteries" series running each weekday.
Life can be found in almost every nook and cranny of our planet Earth. Leaping, swimming, flying, sprinting, slithering, crawling or rooted firmly in place, organisms appear, die, and are replaced by new generations and new species.
Whether a similar bounty of life exists elsewhere in the universe is one of the oldest and most tantalizing questions of science. Considering the wide breadth of the universe and the countless stars it contains, the odds would seem in favor of the answer being "yes."
"We are here, made of stardust. Therefore, it is at least possible that there are others," said Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
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marveling at their magnificence = It is likely that life across the universe is inevitable because of what God created as universal laws, and the most important law is the ratio between the strong force and weak force.
Many physicists found God after this revelation. Random isn’t conceivable at 36 digits of precision.
I’m not going to try and dispute your belief, but there is a reference after the flood of a separate “race” of beings that the author refers to as The Sons of God. They are also referred to as the Nephilim.
I have never heard a good explanation as to what these people are or were. Aliens? Angels? (fallen or otherwise).
It adds to the mystery in my opinion.
Looked at the link, and DAMN, you have an opinion on everything.
Glad I am not within 36 digits of precision as smart as you are. I would hate to be burdened with as much righteousness as you must carry.
I am glad I outgrew that.
Get where you're coming from--at least over this.
The probability of life arising by chance (or by the ordinary laws of physics) is remotely slim. So slim, that even with the trillions (maybe quadrillions or more) of star systems out there, the creation of life would be a miracle.
The second law of thermodynamics would have the universe undergoing entropy from the moment of the Big Bang. That stars and galaxies formed is rather astounding, and those are much, much easier to create (in terms of complexity) than life.
It is more probable that any amino acids that formed by chance would undergo entropy before forming proteins; proteins would be more probable to undergo entropy before forming the first microbe; the first microbe would be more probable to undergo entropy (and therefore revert to non-life) before getting a mutation which advanced it.
Cosmic and biological (Macro in the case of biology) is a big, uphill battle. God could have made life via Macroevolution on every single planet in existence, but from a [literalist] reading of the Bible, it seems as though God didn't.
Don't try to play the Mr. Smarty-pants card.
As for Nephilim, that is something that is contested a lot.
It could be little more than a reference to followers of God marrying and having children with worldly people (i.e. Christians and the Jews before them were called the people/children of God). That isn't such a spectacular and wondrous explanation, but it does seem very common sensible, though you could point out that the result of those unions led to giants.
Actually not trying to offend you or be stuck up, but obviously that isn't getting through to you.
You're entitled to your opinions, and as you've seen (briefly--the FRhomepage is huge) personally have opinions, too.
'Bye.
Here’s a fascinating bunch of UTUBE videos from C2C with Linda Moulton Howe and the fellow who worked for the flight surgeon who observed the autopsies of the EBE’s at Wright Patterson . . . 8 videos at UTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxF3cn5UZQ4&mode=related&search=
No, given the laws, inevitable. Vary that one law and it becomes impossible. That law is the hand of God.
It is more probable that any amino acids that formed by chance would undergo entropy before forming proteins; proteins would be more probable to undergo entropy before forming the first microbe; the first microbe would be more probable to undergo entropy (and therefore revert to non-life) before getting a mutation which advanced it.
Again no. It is becoming more and more likely that life given these laws is inevitable.
Look at the amino acid precursers we saw in deep impact. Look at the water world (apparently earth like) recently discovered only a few tens of light years away around a small sun.
Cosmic and biological (Macro in the case of biology) is a big, uphill battle. God could have made life via Macroevolution on every single planet in existence, but from a [literalist] reading of the Bible, it seems as though God didn't.
Jesus brought parables. The big change was that he brought non-literalism. The old testament at the time was intensely literal. His disciples were taught figuratively. Modern Christianity forgets those roots. Christ taught via figurative alliteration. He did not set laws by edict unless people just didn't get it, and he saved that for the likes of the merchants in temple.
The interviews at the following link that Linda Moulton Howe held with the manager of the company of the flight surgeon who observed the EBE bodies from evidently Roswell . . . 8 videos on UTUBE . . . fascinating and sobering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxF3cn5UZQ4&mode=related&search=
I keep sending the Vatican a suggestion that they change “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” to “..., stardust to stardust”, but I have yet to hear back from them.
I take it the author doesn’t believe in Angels.
Makes me curious about the "talking" bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha. At what point, if ever, does your point apply to semi sapience.
Not trying to stir stuff... They are monkeys (Pygmy Chimps), and barely more than trained animals as is.
Really curious as to what we do if ever we end up with a bonobo "Monkey" ;-) Angelo that/who has a human type free will and an IQ of 65 or 70 or even 90.
It is purely hypothetical.
It makes me wonder where and if our responsibility based upon comparative intelect would lay.
Looks like you have mating pair there, listen for oinking and grunting to know for sure.
No direct link, but do a bit of research on the star, Gliese 581. I forget if it was planet b or c, but it was in the habitable zone and shows water. It is a bit heavier than we are, but its darn close, and with a bit of $ and existing tech we could see organics if they are there.
The programs designed to do that are not due till something like 2015. We found the planet way before we expected to. We started looking, and blam, something like 50 light years away, around a dwarf star, ding ding ding. Candidate 2 for life as we know it.
Given the number of dwarf stars out there, it makes life as we know it (possible) planets even in our galaxy more common than the grains of sand on earth.
As to the (that whole ‘go and sin no more’ thing comes to mind).
We are human. We sin. It unfortunately is our nature. I think this was figurative as well. You left out “Neither do I condemn thee” If it is to be taken as literal, then man today could be sinless. We cant. Even the most pious, Christian, chartable, good person still is a wretched sinner.
Ask Scientology...
Ok I pulled some links for you:
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/pr-22-07.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157.stm
And a pleasant podcast:
http://www.astronomycast.com/extrasolar-planets/episode-34-discovering-another-earth/
The podcast is the most fun.
To think that the human race is God’s ONLY interest is ALMOST as hubristic as believing in anthropogenic global warming.
Do YOU have only ONE interest? Do YOU have a personal line to God and His thoughts?
Holy arrogance, “master”.
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