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

[Captain Compassion]

There is the probability greater than zero that space aliens will visit earth in a space ship in the shape of a black swan.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

There are literally more stars and planets in the universe than grains of sand here on Earth. I find it statistically improbable that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

The nearest might be millions of light years away, but they will exist.

[D Rider]

A single protein is so very much simpler that the simplest life. And don’t bother with a virus that need actual life to replicate function.

[AFreeBird]

Even taking God out of the equation, I can’t see a universe that is 13 or so billions of years only hosting one sentient life form.

Not buying it.

[caver]

I don’t believe a word that “scientists” say.

[madison10]

Said the focus group that built the Tower of Babel.

[ALASKA]

But that data is HUMONGOUS in favor of life elsewhere.

[Disambiguator]

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

This statement seems oxymoronic. It implies a certain religiosity to science, especially regarding the evolutionary worldview.

[Getready]

Or “chance” for that matter.

[Arcadian Empire]

I have yet to be persuaded that the amount of intelligent life on Earth is a high standard.

[Jyotishi]

The scientists don’t know what they don’t know.

[Arcadian Empire]

Power is a tool, neither good nor evil, with its effect entirely dependent upon the nature of the person wielding it.

[Arcadian Empire]

If abiogenesis occurs, scientists should be able to easily recreate it, and I am happy to set aside a minute to watch them do it.

[adorno]

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.

Nothing to do with chance.

Not evolutionary transitions.

Evolution had nothing to do with it.

For humans to exist on Earth, likely took an infinite number of decisions.

Decisions are not chaotic nor due to chance.

Somebody that noticed the amazing 'creation' that is a human (and all life, for that matter), is in denial and refuses to admit the existence that DID IT ALL.

Humans are just a part of the universe, and the universe itself is amazingly complex and complicated. Nothing came from nothing, and even the 'universe' needed to exist before humans could exist.

It's all part of ONE, and the one was created.

[robel]

Science has a dilemma. The more they learn about life, the more unlikely that it could have been the result of evolution. Now they’ve come up with evolution miracles.

[SpaceBar]

This is what you get when you give a statistician one data point.

[TheZMan]

The trouble from a religious angle is, did Jesus die for them also?

[Arcadian Empire]

That suggests getting off the ship before the rogue crew sinks it.

[zeugma]

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

Using present methods, I don't think we could determine if the solar system harbored life if we're more than 30 or so light years away. There could be a million stars in our galaxy that have life with our level of technology, and we'd likely never know it.

Space, is big. Most folks have no idea how mindbogglingly far apart everything is. If the speed of light is, as we suspect, a cosmic speed limit, nothing but generation ships could even hope to travel between nearby stars.