Posted on 09/21/2014 2:45:14 PM PDT by NYer
Ping!
God created the entire universe and if he saw fit to put life on other planets, that’s fine with me.
He probably believes in evolution too.
Who knows, maybe someday intelligent life will be found in the universe.
God created the entire universe and if he saw fit to put life on other planets, that’s fine with me.
And it would be fine with me, too.
LOL Let’s hope so.
Still, with the sheer numbers of planetary systems that undoubtedly exist in our galaxy alone, and the sheer number of galaxies in the observable universe, I think it's pure arrogance to believe we are the only planet out of trillions upon trillions that has evolved life.
The amazing Catholic Church - on the forefront of science from when? The 15th century?!
I am probably one of the few people that doesn’t believe in extra terrestrial life. Yes, there are a lot of planets out there, but life is exeedingly complex and hard to spontaneously generate. If there actually is life out there, I would take that as irrefutable proof of a designer.
While the discovery of life elsewhere will not prove nor disprove the existence of God, Brother Consolmagno expects that it will open the door to ponder what form salvation history may take in other intelligent societies.
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Oh, man, he looks a bit creepy. Like a Church of England guy.
While the discovery of life elsewhere will not prove nor disprove the existence of God, Brother Consolmagno expects that it will open the door to ponder what form salvation history may take in other intelligent societies.
Nothing very promising yet. "Earthlike!" in the excited press release description of a newly found planet usually means "not a hot superjovian".
An avid reader of science fiction,
Well, I am too, or was. But I don't think we live in a Star Trek universe. The Fermi Paradox is a powerful argument.
Martian converts to Catholicism...news at 11!
I'm in that group with you. Those who point to the large number of stars and planets haven't combined that with the othetr side of the calculus, the probability math on life arising from inanimate chemistries.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.…
The time to find that life may be more than we have, because we must transcend not just vast distances, but time itself.
As far as distances go, the closest star to ours is four light years away. Four years at the speed of light. Or two years at twice the speed of light. A year at four times the speed of light... Bottom line, you must travel at incredible speeds for even short distances. And the nearest planets that could hold any form of life at all are likely over a hundred or two hundred light years away.
So going that fast is improbable. So why not cheat and go around space? This is about the only way.
But then what?
The galaxy is roughly 13 billion years old. Humanity still doesn’t have a means of communicating with enough power to be heard much beyond our solar system. So being intelligent isn’t enough. Let us say that if we were a “modern intelligence” for 100,000 years before dying out, we could have done so 130,000 times in the life of our galaxy.
Vast civilizations, thousands of galactic empires could have risen and turned to dust before us, and we would never know. Nor they of us.
I’m just hoping we find intelligent life on earth someday.
Agreed.
“The galaxy is roughly 13 billion years old.” Now there you go again. Prove it.
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