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 ...
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.
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.
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.
“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.
The reason we haven’t heard from any other life forms is because there probably isn’t any.
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.
“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.’
reminds me of one of the endings to Men In Black
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.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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.
Lol. That’s it!!
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.
“Any event, regardless how improbable, once it has occurred becomes inevitable.” — Captain Compassion
scientists aren’t the best at philosophy, as the quote you commented on shows
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.
Isn’t that one of Jeff Dunham’s puppets, Walter, I think.
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.
Life didn’t begin with hemoglobin. Simple became complex. If it happened here it can happen anywhere.
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.
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