Well,I wouldn’t insist that they don’t exist but I don’t find anything scriptural that compels me to think they do and the universe being really really big doesn’t either.
***We covered this probability in an interesting thread several years ago, where the resident abiogenesis adherents refused to plug in their assumptions to the Drake Equation. Dr. Coppedge’s numbers are especially eye opening.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904271/posts?page=1#1
There must be literally billions of civilizations out there! Simply because the universe is so big and huge and vast,because there's just so much room? I wonder if I opened a heap of bank accounts all over the place and applied Drake's equation to it would I get rich?
To my thinking (gulp)if you don't accept that life 'just happened' without any uncaused cause then that equation is little more than blather.
I agree with you.The real mystery lies in what is not seen,if you get my drift.