We're as good as it gets: Intelligent life is extremely UNLIKELY to exist anywhere else in the universe because [trunc]

The Daily Mail UK ^ | 30 Nov 2020 | Jonathan Chadwick

[blueplum]

Full Title: We're as good as it gets: Intelligent life is extremely UNLIKELY to exist anywhere else in the universe because it took a series of miracles for humans to evolve, say scientists

Statisticians say the evolution of intelligent life is 'exceptionally rare', and that human-like civilisations are extremely unlikely to exist on other planets.

In a new paper, Oxford researchers theorise that, for life to evolve in the same way elsewhere in the universe, it would take longer than the whole of Earth's projected lifespan.

Evolution on Earth from the Big Bang up until the current day has involved a series of what they call 'evolutionary transitions' that were helped by chance....

...The fact that some transitions occurred only once in Earth's history suggests a remarkable stroke of luck ...

[blueplum]

Statistics rely on data, so one can't say it's impossible, but one can absolutely say it's highly improbable advanced ET life exists based on data to date.

[RummyChick]

The human body is a miraculous thing...but greed and power sure screws up human existence.

[theoldmarine]

And the Creator laughs at the stupidity of arrogant, rebellious humans to think this intricately designed universe is a cosmic accident.

[Spok]

Since there’s no intelligent life on earth, no reason to believe it’s anywhere.

[rfp1234]

We're as good as it gets

[Jeepers43]

"it took a series of miracles for humans to evolve, say scientists"

Not disagreeing, but wondering how scientists and statisticians are defining and quantifying miracles.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Intelligent life is extremely UNLIKELY to exist anywhere else in the universe because it took a series of miracles for humans to evolve, say scientists

"Say scientists" - any stupid thing can be said by scientists. They're human, like everyone else. It's extremely unlikely that intelligent life as we know it - in the form of human beings - can evolve elsewhere in the universe. We have no idea how likely it is that intelligent life as we don't know it has evolved or will evolve elsewhere.

[PROCON]

Amen!

[Secret Agent Man]

So scientists believe in miracles now

Perhaps those avowed to hate God should reconsider the Bible

[wally_bert]

Thumps Scarlioni’s angle as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyS8hUB6wh8

A favorite vintage Dr. Who bit.

[MayflowerMadam]

Intelligent life COULD exist elsewhere in the universe. There’s no reason God wouldn’t create other life somewhere else. (Evolution not a thing.)

[Flavious_Maximus]

Right. It’s amusing to see these “scientist” twist themselves in a knot to avoid using the words “God created the universe”.

[FreeReign]

We're as good as it gets: Intelligent life is extremely UNLIKELY to exist anywhere else in the universe because [trunc]

So rare that only on planet earth, only in the country of the United States of America, and only from 1776 to 2020 did we have such intelligent, and civilized place to live.

And now, something so unique is gone.

[from occupied ga]

There are between 500 billion and a trillion stars in the milky way galaxy. There are approximately 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. the total universe is thought to be 10e45 (that's 1 with 45 zeros after it for those of you who think Biden is honest) times the size of the observable universe. so conservatively there are 500 billion * 100 billion * 10e45 stars in the universe which works out to something like 5 times 10e67 stars in the universe. about 1/6th of these have planets, so I'd say it's extremely likely that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, just not here (after the election)

Will we ever see it? Probably not; interstellar distances are too vast for details like that to become observable.

[Savage Beast]

ConsiderING the trillions upon trillions of galaxies, stars, and planets in the known universe, I'd say BALONEY!

[Bratch]

[libertylover]

I don’t have any data to look at, but think it is HIGHLY LIKELY that there IS life elsewhere in the universe.

Not only is there life on earth, there are millions and millions of different kinds of life on earth.

And I get the same answer whether I look at is as God-D created the universe or, it just happened. If the doings of God-D, why create just one planet with life when He created millions of different life forms on earth. And if by chance, if it happened here it seems likely that the conditions occurred elsewhere as well.

[ETL]

[CheshireTheCat]

I think if intelligent life elsewhere in the universe had been thinking of introducing themselves to us that after viewing us this past year they would conclude were are far too beneath them in intelligence to bother.