Posted on 09/30/2010 4:04:03 PM PDT by Dallas59
If confirmed, the exoplanet, named Gliese 581g, would be the first Earth-like world found residing in a star's habitable zone -- a region where a planet's temperature could sustain liquid water on its surface.[Illustration of planet Gliese 581g.]
And the planet's discoverers are optimistic about the prospects for finding life there.
"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say, my own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent," said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during a press briefing today.
"I have almost no doubt about it."
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religious superstition aside, if there is liquid water it bodes well for the chance of life... But 100%? Unless we get an e-mail from that planet I dont think so.....
God could take care of affairs to His own pleasure on, say, Gliese without needing to tell Earthlings about it (and from Gliesians’ point of view, without needing to tell Gliesians about anything that happened on Earth). Nothing from our bible tells us whether or not Gliese is a creation-free zone. If the musings of the late C. S. Lewis are on track, Glieseians need not even be fallen.
I love the fact that, on a science-y thread, post 31 was listed ABOVE posts 32 and 33 on my “most recent” posts listing. ;-P
It’s only 120 trillion miles from Earth. So with the way that Obama and the dems spend the money we don’t have, we should be there within 10 years.
How a liberal thinks....
An entire world of new voters and taxpayers. What a find !!
Laughing at me now?
No sex, I’m not here!
And now I am a laughing stock!
Just for that, I’m staying. Let THAT be a lesson to you!
LoL... (EDDIE MURPHY LAUGH)...
Bingo. I doubt that God would be satisfied in creating only Human Beings.
But life is one thing, intelligent tool using life something else entirely. Life existed for a long time on Earth before something intelligent came around.
But given the size of the Universe, thinking that this grand spectacle is all here for us seems the ultimate in hubris.
Man was created in God’s image, we believe from the testimony of the bible. If God granted the same favor to another race of creature with which He populated Gliese, and then engineered their salvation if they fell, that would be an interesting scene in heaven — if the two races were ever allowed to meet.
Bottom line: I think some of us have been watching way to much Star Trek.
To argue the other side of the coin, if God wanted to spread forth this giga-giga-giga-huge spectacle we call a universe and put the crown jewel of His creation in only one little spot on it we call earth... there doesn’t mean God makes any less sense. It’s a biblical assertion that everything in the visible cosmos shows the glory of God in some fashion. (A corollary would be that there would be no such thing as a “pure” evil although that does not rule out the existence of a devil.)
100%
On this subject, I highly recommend the book “A wrinkle in time”. It is actually a “Christian” book that discusses Jesus, Satan, and amazing life forms on other worlds.
Interestingly, it fits within a Biblical perspective. Mine, at least.
Oh, good! STAY. I had you mixed up with Rob Boy, the Gustonian. But if you’re an Irish Tenor stay, PLEASE. We need more Irish Tenors.
“No wonder conservatives are skeptical of scientists.”
This is indefensible a statement as the astronomers “100% chance of life” statement.
Why would conservatism be correlated with skepticism of scientists?
This individual astronomer is just an idiot that will say because you can’t prove him wrong with hard evidence that he must be right without providing hard evidence.
I'm probably one of the 3 people on FR that knows that series and actually enjoyed it for all the camp.
You just beat me!
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