Posted on 02/21/2019 8:06:51 AM PST by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
After that they have to explain hoe non-living molecules became living things and how a cell evolved when any part of its incredibly complex mechanism didn’t evolve simultaneously it would never have lived at all.
Huzzah for Darwin? Ha!
Hi guy.
Sorry to bother you. It looks like you have one too many “and”s in your tagline.
Hey, if my brother had a booger in his nose, I would tell him.
5.56mm
I’ve held the rare Earth view for a long time, for no other reason than that’s what the evidence suggests.
I also believe the probability that humans ever existing even on a relatively life friendly planet like Earth is also extremely small for the same reason.
Axing questions like that will get you accused of being a heretic on FR.
Abiogenesis and evolution are by far the best explanations that we have.
As to whether they were slightly guided is another matter.
Unlike Karl Sagan’s now foolish extrapolation that there must be huge numbers of planets with intelligent life... the more we understand about our galaxy, let alone our universe, we are finding the variables that have made and make life possible here on earth are FAR FAR more numerous than his infamous claims.
Life probably exists elsewhere, but highly developed intelligent life? Very likely very very few and far between.
Hell, if you just look at 1 thing, that needed to happen to make us possible, and that was midochondria.. and how rare that even was... and without that, complex large life is impossible... you can begin to comprehend how many things, had to go ‘just so” for us to be here now... It isn’t simply, we are a rocky core planet, approximately so far from our sun...
The sheer number of astronomically small probabilities that all had to happen for us to be here, and routinely we are finding even more insanely small likelihood things happened that would have prevented us from being here had they not.. Point to life, at least complex life, being incredibly rare.
If I were to venture a guess, if and when, we ever do find something more than microbial life out there, it will likely be in a system and planet that looks very different from our own.
Then what about shows such as Star Trek, and how they found numerous class M planets in the galaxy? And those planets had humanoid populations who spoke English?
Just joking around here.........
Also, I’ve heard theories about how there could be life on planets which could survive extreme temperatures and not need oxygen for survival.
It makes one wonder if we will ever encounter alien life , if we will ever overcome the vast distances in intersteller space to be able to explore and learn answers to such questions.
“The sheer number of astronomically small probabilities that all had to happen for us to be here, and routinely we are finding even more insanely small likelihood things happened that would have prevented us from being here had they not.. Point to life, at least complex life, being incredibly rare.”
And to think that the UNIVERSE we know may be only one of many?
Maybe it is possible WE exist in a —— Single Corpuscle circulating in the ‘bloodstream’ of a sleeping being we cannot conceive of?
There could be a planet somewhere where extremely rare conditions to support, say, silicon-based life on it.
We just won't know unless and until we encounter different kids of life, if at all.
We only have one example of life so far, and it only exists in one place. So it seems to me any theories on how rare or plentiful life may be elsewhere are flawed, they operate from an example of one. If we find 20 other examples of life, and they all exist within the same parameters we do, then it starts to become more reasonable.
Freegards
One other issue is the length of time. The universe is billions of years old, the earth, if we believe what we are told, has had life for mere millions of years.
There may be a time when other “Earths” can exist and there may have been times when other “Earths” exist.
And there will be a time, hopefully in the FAR DISTANT future, when Earth may not exist.
I have a great idea for terraforming a planet that is a near twin of earth, and is right here in out solar system.
Venus presently has a helllishly hot atmosphere, with clouds of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid forming a heat trap that does not allow the accumulated heat to escape, or things to cool enough so the water vapor also in the atmosphere can condense and fall as rain.
Once that dense cloud cover of broken, the existing supply of water vapor can begin to work its magic and proceed to bring the surface temperatures back down to bearable levels. Seeding the clouds with huge quantities of calcium or magnesium oxide, to react with the sulfuric acid and a lesser extent with the carbon dioxide, should cause much of this atmospheric composition to fall to the surface as a powdery mineral, as sulfates or carbonates.
As the surface of the planet turns away from the sun, the now much more clear atmosphere may then radiate off the excess heat, and since there is a great heat differential, the loss of the excess heat should go quickly, getting down in the range of where the water molecules can condense and fall as rain, thus initiating the heat-regulation system that has worked so wonderfully well here on planet Earth.
This may well take several human generations, before the surface may be habitable without special protective domes, and may also include re-aiming some “dirty snowball” comets into the atmospheric cover of Venus, which are composed of ammonia, carbon dioxide and water all frozen into a hard mineral mass. Within a few centuries, Venus could be remade into a warmer version of earth, and effectively doubling the surface upon which humanity and other terrestrial species could survive and even thrive.
There is a remote possibility that is true, but it would have to be life of a form not suitable for an earthlike planet.
4L8r
It’s not a Star Trek universe, out there.
And we are still finding new galaxies not to mention the billions of stars in each - even if this clown is right, that only means conditions for our biological sort - humans, animals, fishes etc- that look as we expect. It does not preclude life based on a different biology.
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