[Aristotelian]

[BenLurkin]

"Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare,"

One need only visit websites other than FR to see this is true.

[Williams]

Is any of that particularly clever? Hawking should know the numbers well enough to know that picking up a signal from an advanced civilization is somewhat unlikely, but there are so many stars and galaxies and planets there almost certainly are advanced societies, and no reason to believe they all blow themselves up, just as we have not (yet).

[Free ThinkerNY]

[HerrBlucher]

If human beings evolved by chance via natural selection, and that chance was beyond 1 x 10 to the 65th power, I don’t care how big and old the universe is and how many stars and planets are out there, there is likely NO other life out there.

[fso301]

Any Christian should believe in extraterrestrial life. From cover to cover, the bible describes highly advanced beings capable of moving through interstellar space and whose abode is not on this planet.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I've long thought that the greatest evidence for life elsewhere, is the incredibly low intelligence of people on Earth.

The universe is far too great and beautiful to have been made solely for the benefit of a planet full of retards.

[JRandomFreeper]

I've read a lot of SCI-FI where humans were the youngest race to enter the galactic discourse. What if WE are the old and ancient wise ones? Tag, we're it. Be smart and witty and capable.

/johnny/

[onedoug]

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet

[dragnet2]

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says.

I agree.

"Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare,"

Rare yes, but I also believe other very intelligent life exists outside earth. Like diamonds on earth are rare, but it's there.

[Kirkwood]

If he is so smart, he should be thinking about more important things like making gasoline free.

[Bender2]

Re: "Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare," he then quickly added: "Some would say it has yet to occur on earth."

Stephen is right... if he means the Liberal Democrats!