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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

Posted on 11/30/2020 6:12:35 PM PST by 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 ...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: aliens; evolution; godisreal; math; oxford; universe
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To: 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.)

Just my opinion, but it appears to me, that God seems to be dealing, specifically with the earth. Do I believe there is other intelligent life out there? Absolutely yes, but the life is angelic, fallen and righteous angels, all over creation, in mortal combat, every moment of every day, I think we would be shocked, if we could see into the spiritual world, and see the warfare going on all around us.

21 posted on 11/30/2020 6:36:35 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: blueplum

These include the emergence of primitive life from non-living matter (known as abiogenesis).

This is their biggest reason and their biggest mistake. I doubt this happened on earth. Life likely started on thousands of planets over billions of years before the earth was formed. Some of these life-sustaining planets experienced explosive catastrophic events (supernovas, collisions with other planets, etc...). Comets would travel through clouds of life and seed other planets.

The more planets seeded and exploded the more life would be spread through the universe by these wandering comets. Earth is young compared to the universe, so the seeding of life could have been occurring for billions of years, spanning millions of planets. Look at the moon and see the impacts, maybe even a few life seeding comets struck it too, it just that it wasn’t suitable to sustain life.


22 posted on 11/30/2020 6:36:40 PM PST by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: blueplum

I only realized a lot later that Carl Sagan should have gotten an “F” for that stupid equation of his. Differences in the denominator, a whole string of coefficients, all pulled out of his arse.

The truth is, he would just say anything to get into an ugly girl’s pants.

That there is life on Earth, intelligent or otherwise, is truly amazing, but since we’re our only sample, I believe it is meaningless. Of course, statistically, a sample of 1 is meaningless.

I think it is even more amazing, and perhaps telling, that of all of the species on Earth, there is only 1 with verbal and written communication as used by Man. That might suggest that the universe could be full of plankton, if there is life at all.


23 posted on 11/30/2020 6:38:09 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Mark17

“I think we would be shocked, if we could see into the spiritual world, and see the warfare going on all around us.”

Knowing what the RATs are up to, how they’re behaving, etc., I’m not shocked. It is so strong. Demons have taken them over. My husband won’t even have a former friend in our house any more because we don’t want to be exposed to the evil.


24 posted on 11/30/2020 6:40:40 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" Galatians 5:1)
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To: blueplum

The reason we haven’t heard from any other life forms is because there probably isn’t any.


25 posted on 11/30/2020 6:43:02 PM PST by zeebee ( )
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To: blueplum

If God can create intelligent life on this planet He can create it on other planets. He can create other planets on which to place life and intelligent life.


26 posted on 11/30/2020 6:45:32 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe rye)
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To: RummyChick

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

This guy seems to agree with you:

Professor Brian Cox believes the advances in science and engineering required by a civilisation to start conquering the stars ultimately lead to its destruction.

He said: ‘One solution to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that.

‘It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster.’


27 posted on 11/30/2020 6:46:12 PM PST by iowamomforfreedom (More deplorable than ever - MAGA)
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To: from occupied ga

reminds me of one of the endings to Men In Black


28 posted on 11/30/2020 6:49:36 PM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I overlapped Carl Sagan at a cornhole U. The very few times I saw him were enough to convince me he was one of the most arrogant, self impressed, jackasses I’ve ever run across. He also was well know to steal ideas from his graduate students and present them as his own. In short he wasn’t dumb, but nowhere near as bright as he’d have you think.


29 posted on 11/30/2020 6:51:01 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: RummyChick

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?


30 posted on 11/30/2020 6:52:46 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: blueplum

Who says we are an intelligent species. Endless wars, petty squabbles, religious bigotry and the kicker, Joe Biden do not signify intelligence. More like instinctive behavior.

Nah, in the grand scheme of things, we are as rocks to intelligent life.


31 posted on 11/30/2020 6:52:59 PM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Bratch

Lol. That’s it!!


32 posted on 11/30/2020 6:57:30 PM PST by Jeepers43
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To: from occupied ga

The odds of an average size protein such as hemoglobin, assuming all the required amino acids with the correct chirality, are 10e630. All the atomic particles in the universe are 10e89 and time is 10e27 nanoseconds. That is just one thing the evolutionary miracle will need to overcome. By the way the smallest chromosome in the human body has 1 million amino acids in it. Put that together using random chance.


33 posted on 11/30/2020 7:01:00 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: blueplum

“Any event, regardless how improbable, once it has occurred becomes inevitable.” — Captain Compassion


34 posted on 11/30/2020 7:04:06 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Jeepers43

scientists aren’t the best at philosophy, as the quote you commented on shows


35 posted on 11/30/2020 7:04:07 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: from occupied ga

neither...i think at least two of the movies end that way...earth is just a tiny blip encased in another universe of beings, etc.


36 posted on 11/30/2020 7:04:33 PM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: ETL

Isn’t that one of Jeff Dunham’s puppets, Walter, I think.


37 posted on 11/30/2020 7:05:08 PM PST by Database
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To: blueplum

The universe is too big for us to comprehend.

When we look around, we see rocks and gas and fire, but no other life.

So, let’s kill them before they’re born.

The Democrats are a bunch of self-centered, self-serving, self-absorbed killers and thieves.


38 posted on 11/30/2020 7:07:15 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: D Rider

Life didn’t begin with hemoglobin. Simple became complex. If it happened here it can happen anywhere.


39 posted on 11/30/2020 7:10:28 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Jeepers43

Earth is just the right distance from sun, too close and we get fried, too far and we freeze to death.
Sun is just the right size to give heat without frying life,
earth is just the right size with enough gravity to hold air from escaping but not too much gravity to crush living creatures, for example if man landed on Jupiter, he wont be able to get up easily weighing 500 lbs.


40 posted on 11/30/2020 7:10:37 PM PST by entropy12 (Stalin would have loved USA election system as it exists now! )
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