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 ...
There is the probability greater than zero that space aliens will visit earth in a space ship in the shape of a black swan.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t believe a word that “scientists” say.
Said the focus group that built the Tower of Babel.
But that data is HUMONGOUS in favor of life elsewhere.
This statement seems oxymoronic. It implies a certain religiosity to science, especially regarding the evolutionary worldview.
Or “chance” for that matter.
I have yet to be persuaded that the amount of intelligent life on Earth is a high standard.
The scientists don’t know what they don’t know.
Power is a tool, neither good nor evil, with its effect entirely dependent upon the nature of the person wielding it.
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.
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.
This is what you get when you give a statistician one data point.
The trouble from a religious angle is, did Jesus die for them also?
That suggests getting off the ship before the rogue crew sinks it.
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.
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