So with all the billions of planets orbiting billions of stars in this galaxy with billions of observable galaxies, better odds are we’re alone?
Well, did you look at Drake’s equation? If one variable is a zero, then the equation is null. If none of the variables are zero, then where are they? I think some really smart scientists have agreed that there is likely no one else out there, else by now we ought to have heard about it.
The equation would only work if indeed there have been billions of years for evolution to have occurred here or elsewhere- an assumption ( remember, the “theory” of evolution) not in fact. Not good math let alone good science. See, in evolution the operative is time, not God ( but that still begs the question of “why?”; things do not happen without impetus, an action by an actor). Hawking or Dawkins or some such guy states that the universe came into existence because “it had to”. That is a silly argument, unless the universe is alive and self determinant....more akin to scifi.
Now, on the other hand, if indeed the prime actor/cause in the universe is outside of it all ( as in bigger than the creation) then we indeed can be the sole occupants of that system.
If little green men from some distant planet arrived tomorrow, I would still place my trust and eternal hope in the Lord Jesus.
I should have mentioned the “Fermi Paradox”- since the logic of the math ( still assuming evolutionary theory of origins as the basis) and the scale of the universe demands there be other life, but the fact that there is no evidence of any such ET life argues the contrary- that there is no life out there.
So Fermi paradox seems to answer Drakes Equation- one or more of the variables may be zero- and therefore the product of the variables otherwise is Zero as well. What’s the probability of the probability since we have no evidence, only anecdote or unexplainable that there is life other than ours? If this is where we are at, then we have left math and science and now are solidly in the realm of philosophy- and a version of philosophy that apparently is w/o rational basis.