Are the scientists looking for this alien??
Posted on 05/26/2005 3:10:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It’s a cult of the search for life.
You realized that once we find a few dozen places with "life", all of it it remarkably similar to that known here (today or in the past), the Earth-alone evolution crowd are going to be in some real scientific difficulty.
Actually it is science fiction.
That's the bedrock of this cult.
It's out there!!
Haven't found it?
We haven't looked in the right place.
It is an endless search.
Not to the true believers.
To them, this will correct the religious notion of life.
No, it's not science. It's scientists using their imaginations to create a possibly entertaining TV show.
Seems to me that the religious view is that life originated elsewhere and that God brought it to Earth. The non-religious view is that life originated on Earth, and most likely ONLY on Earth, as some sort of cosmic accident.
Genesis actually has God placing life on Earth. Seems to me God is not prohibited from placing it elsewhere.
I consider very similar to the mind-set of Communism. "Communism works! It's the best system of government! It just hasn't been implemented properly yet! Let's try again!"
This is a show based on the belief there is life beyond Earth.
***....As one scientist in the two-hour special says flat out: The probes and other scientific advancements will make this the century when we discover we are not alone....***
Interesting analogy.
I wager the majority of these life cultists lean left to far left.
Are the scientists looking for this alien??
Really?
Now would this be human life or what?
I just read an article based on the belief, that there will be a cure for cancer someday.
America was discovered on the belief, that there is a shorter way to get to the far east.
Jules Verne wrote stories based on the belief, that man will walk on the moon one day.
What's so bad about that? If there were no belief of life beyond earth, nobody would look for it.
Cincinatus' Wife wrote:
Really?
Now would this be human life or what?
--> Dunno, maybe they're interested in studying my bathroom, once in a while something grows, then i gotta wipe it out of existance.
I'll believe in extraterestrial when i stumble over it. ;)
Life beyond Earth will be us.
And that is a belief and a goal.
I see that differently than the search for life.
LOL
Then there's
Your beliefs and goals are fine with me, but why do you feel the need to belittle the beliefs and goals of others?
Son, is that you? Hurry up or you'll miss the bus! Stop dawdling!
Because Carl Sagan's belief that NASA morph into a search for life engine, made it into the shell of its former self.
Maybe Mike Griffin can save it from extinction.
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