Posted on 03/15/2026 11:04:52 AM PDT by rexthecat
Why is intelligent life so rare in the universe? According to Richard Feynman, the odds are far lower than most people imagine. While the universe is vast, the emergence of complex, intelligent life requires a delicate balance of physical, chemical, and environmental conditions — conditions that are extremely unlikely to align perfectly.
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Life didn’t swoon into being from some primordial pond, it, that is life, was created. In fact, the entire universe front to back, near to far was created. Wanna know what’s uot there, ask God. He made it all, everything.
Feynman’s a moron, buying into the nonsense that complex life on Earth arose spontaneously through gazillions of years of gazillions of impossible random events in a series ...
given his ridiculous assumption of the above, he then irrationally concludes that it is even MORE insanely impossible for such insanely impossible events to occur more than once, and therefore life arose in the vast cosmos only on Earth ... such a view is very analogous to the long discarded theory that the cosmos itself revolved around the Earth ...
any honest person who has extensively studied the life and computing sciences, especially molecular biology, realizes that Earth life is composed of a multitude of extremely complex molecular machines that interact at multiple complex levels within even the simplest living organism, and that all of this could not have just happened accidentally ...
delving into how the molecular machinery functions, including the molecular programs that encode protein manufacture in the chromosomes and the molecular ribosome computers that decode and manufacture said proteins from said coded programs, one really can only concluded that life on Earth is the deliberate construction of a conscious intelligence, a intelligence far greater than our own, and that therefore there is no reason whatsoever that life has not been produced in many places throughout the vast cosmos ...
Famed atomic scientist Enrico Fermi postulated “The Fermi Paradox”..... the contradiction between the high probability that extraterrestrial intelligence exists (given the billions of stars and planets) and the complete lack of evidence for or contact with such civilizations.
Coined by physicist Enrico Fermi, who asks, “where is everybody?”.
We’ve been to the moon and back——been in outer space countless times.
Suely there’s some iota of evidence of extra-terrestial life?
Democrats
I know folks believe every conspiracy on aliens
There’s some very marginal evidence of cellular fossil on a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Many think its really nothing other then an interesting impression in the rock. The Mars Rover has some (again very arguable!) pictorial evidence of microbial life in some rock formation. Biosignatures from exoplanet spectrums. See link to paper.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6016574/
Even if all the above were proven to be real, its a long walk to Mr Spock!
My question is more basic: why is there anything?
And I don’t just mean matter, light, energy, gravity - stuff like that..
Why is there even what we call ‘space’?
It’s incredible how little we know..
I’ve always been amused at “they are hiding the aliens from us.” I’m fairly certain that if the aliens could reach the Earth, they could go wherever they pleased. They could hover over my house. I would not be able to hide them from anybody. Considering the vastness of the known universe, civilizations could have risen and faded, and we will never know.
I am also most amused at the reactions to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The Hubble Space Telescope is optical, and can “see” to a certain distance out there. The Webb is an infrared space telescope, and can “see” further into the Cosmos. Webb had discovered, detected things that “shouldn’t be there.” Hah! So..... The Webb telescope can see a certain distance further than Hubble. What is beyond the limits of the Webb Infrared Space Telescope? Time will tell. I probably won’t be around to enjoy it, but it will be fascinating.
With all the the above said, it is still very interesting that 9 months after the Roswell Alien Incident, AlGore was born.
Because the Bible teaches that the "whole of creation groans" (Romans 8:22) due to the Curse caused by Adam's fall. This won't influence the thinking of non-Christians who do not share Judeo-Christian premises, but for Christians this has been a strong argument against the notion that God created sentient life elsewhere in the universe. It doesn't make sense that sentient beings not of Adam's race and heritage would be suffering under a curse they had no part in.
I have to laugh when I see how gullible people are when it comes to presuming life can arise spontaneously all over the universe. Without even getting into the need to have many environmental factors just right (the "Rare Earth" problem), you're not going to ever get one single functional protein molecule in the history of the universe by chance recombinations; much less the scores of different proteins needed for the simplest life form, or the other machinery and components of even the most basic cellular life; much less the happy coincidence of a DNA blueprint that just happens to come into existence at the same moment as the first cell, and just happens to code for replication of that cell; much less that the resulting organism would then rapidly evolve into opposite organisms to provide dynamic ecological balance (such as in the O2-CO2 cycle), all without an information feedback loop to drive natural selection to such an outcome. All non-monotheist religious positions vitally depend on evolutionary beliefs, so its not surprising that such fatuous religious faith rules the day in people's thinking; their religious belief depends on such blind faith.
I don’t know.
We’re making super intelligence out of basically sand and electricity.
Heck, intelligent life on Earth is unlikely, just look around.
There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth!
Intelligent life is rare on this planet, too.
Heck, intelligent life on Earth is unlikely, just look around.
Hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy (the Milky Way).
Hundreds of billions, possibly trillions of galaxies in the known universe.
With at least 40 sextillion, which is written as 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 4 X 1022 stars in the universe, other intelligent life in the universe is a given. Near enough that we will ever observe it or interact with it, maybe not.
Beyond the massive scope of the universe, you have to add time as a factor. The Milky Way is over 13 billion years old. Humans have existed about 0.002% of that time. How many civilizations have come and gone over that 13 billion year period?
That was actually a very good movie.
“ IMO, there is very possibly life on other planets...Just so far away we’ll never see them or they see us...”
This is AI and I’m not sure Feynman said these words or not.
But your summary is good and the video makes the point well.
If the Universe is infinite, then the chance of life on other planets being slim is irrelevant & if the universe isn’t infinite what lies beyond.
My question is: why is there anything - why is there even nothing?
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