Life on other planets - consequences

[Blue peter]

But God made us in his image,
so if they don't look like us
Who else made them ?
the devil obviously someone will pipe up.

I’d happily welcome them if they looked like Natasha Henstridge in species but without the violence

 

[Papa Shango]

Yes that’s true it’s also true that quite a lot of people believe in God and follow that religion and get a lot of comfort from it.

People believe and take comfort in lots of things.

As long is it's not hurting anybody then good for them I suppose.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Is it in bad taste to have considered the consequences of what could have been?

Blue Origin flight: Wendy's praises Katy Perry after 'can we send her back' tweet

The fast-food chain says it has no ill-will for Perry, after snide tweets about her trip to space went viral.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Esgehtvoran]

Local crackhead has known about this for years. Frankly I’m impressed by his knowledge of science.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

I think given the infinite vastness of the universe, planetary physics dictates that there is / has been and will be other intelligent life somewhere out there. However, we may not be in a position to find it or prove it during our window of opportunity.

It would seem that it has taken our planet 4.5 billion years to get to the stage where it can support intelligent life.
If the dinosaurs hadn’t been wiped out 66 million years ago they’d most probably still be here and we’d have never got the opportunity / incredible luck to evolve in the last 300,000 years.

Given the high probability that we will have wiped ourselves out by war or by making the earth uninhabitable in the next 300,000 years the chances of communicating with other intelligent life over the huge distances of intergalactic space, who are by chance in a similar window of evolution / opportunity as us is…pretty unlikely.

Let’s just try and enjoy what we have. Happy Friday everyone! COYB.

This is the crux of it for me. We all enjoyed Independence Day film. Yeah cheer on we beat the Aliens.

We have it now we can care for and support every single human being but we choose not to. The world sits by as Israel murders Palestinian kids in the thousands. Starmer sucks off Trump as a devout Enabler.

The Martians would be doing us a favour.

 

[degsy]

A team of scientists have detected gases on a planet outside our solar system, that here on earth can only be made by living things. The suggestion is that the planet contains life (there is no suggestion yet that it's anything other than microbial). Other scientists are looking to see if they can find any other way these cases could be made, to give a false result, but as yet there are none. The gases don't exist without life, as far as we know. The team making the discovery are only 99.9% certain - not the 99.9999% required for them to be convinced.

So my question is - how will this affect human beliefs? The Bible tells us God uniquely made earth and humans on it. Sure, established religion will twist and turn and adapt, in order to protect its income, just like Sky tv work to make sure its best selling tv brands are generally successful. They'll be full of "god created all life all over the universe, but didn't want to tell us in case predestination meant we'd turn out to be horrible and exploit our neighbours" (checks notes, looks at the US and sighs dolefully).

But will it put the kibosh on the extremists, like the USAians who insist the earth is only 6000 years old, or will they just suggest that scientific evidence and peer review is just another trick of their imaginary devil?

Either way - will actually knowing that the earth is not alone in having life, affect anybody"s faith?

Won't make one bit of difference
To quote the official party line...

All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God that made them all.

The 'All' bit covers them for, well, basically All!
QED

 

[WA Toffee]

A team of scientists have detected gases on a planet outside our solar system, that here on earth can only be made by living things. The suggestion is that the planet contains life (there is no suggestion yet that it's anything other than microbial). Other scientists are looking to see if they can find any other way these cases could be made, to give a false result, but as yet there are none. The gases don't exist without life, as far as we know. The team making the discovery are only 99.9% certain - not the 99.9999% required for them to be convinced.

So my question is - how will this affect human beliefs? The Bible tells us God uniquely made earth and humans on it. Sure, established religion will twist and turn and adapt, in order to protect its income, just like Sky tv work to make sure its best selling tv brands are generally successful. They'll be full of "god created all life all over the universe, but didn't want to tell us in case predestination meant we'd turn out to be horrible and exploit our neighbours" (checks notes, looks at the US and sighs dolefully).

But will it put the kibosh on the extremists, like the USAians who insist the earth is only 6000 years old, or will they just suggest that scientific evidence and peer review is just another trick of their imaginary devil?

Either way - will actually knowing that the earth is not alone in having life, affect anybody"s faith?

It is called faith for a reason. I am not a religious person, but I have never seen anyone provide proof that God doesn't exist. And unless he physically turns up or we do actually meet him in the afterlife, then there never will be proof of his existence. But asking for proof is to completely miss the point of faith.

There are obviously some that do, but I think most religious people don't take the bible literally. Scientific discoveries do nothing to disprove God, because believing in God requires faith, not evidence.

Saying that, if you accept the bible has some poetic license and not to be taken literally, then the big bang, formation of galaxies and evolution is not too far removed from the book of Genesis. Perhaps the Bible is the original scientific textbook?

 

[DrEFC]

I’d happily welcome them if they looked like Natasha Henstridge in species but without the violence

Tbf, what a way to go. Oh my dear girl, I enjoyed that immensely.

 

[blue1948]

It just shows how egotistical we are as a species .We are doing all we can to ruin this planet and still have the gall to think there will be another inhabited planet and it will be us on it ! Beggars belief.

 

[blue1948]

It is called faith for a reason. I am not a religious person, but I have never seen anyone provide proof that God doesn't exist. And unless he physically turns up or we do actually meet him in the afterlife, then there never will be proof of his existence. But asking for proof is to completely miss the point of faith.

There are obviously some that do, but I think most religious people don't take the bible literally. Scientific discoveries do nothing to disprove God, because believing in God requires faith, not evidence.

Saying that, if you accept the bible has some poetic license and not to be taken literally, then the big bang, formation of galaxies and evolution is not too far removed from the book of Genesis. Perhaps the Bible is the original scientific textbook?

Have you watched "Ancient aliens " it goes on to show that the bible is exactly that ,I too don't believe in Christ , I think the world as we know it is one heck of a stretch even for Darwin and that something is responsible but not one of us .

 

[Micky_T]

I don't understand why humans waste their time looking so far in to space. Even if we found undeniable evidence there's another planet out there with life as advanced as ours, this planet is 700 trillion miles away. We could never communicate with them and we could never travel there. There would be absolutely no benefit to knowing there's anything out there.

Instead of spending all that money on looking in to space, spend it on something useful that could benefit people on earth.

 

[West Side Charlie]

There's definitely life on another planet somewhere, what else explains the great Messi, he's not human.

 

[Papa Shango]

I don't understand why humans waste their time looking so far in to space. Even if we found undeniable evidence there's another planet out there with life as advanced as ours, this planet is 700 trillion miles away. We could never communicate with them and we could never travel there. There would be absolutely no benefit to knowing there's anything out there.

Instead of spending all that money on looking in to space, spend it on something useful that could benefit people on earth.

There is no benefit to knowledge?

I'm not overly bothered about life elsewhere as such but just learning about space and the universe in general is fascinating and the biggest mystery of all I reckon.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I don't understand why humans waste their time looking so far in to space. Even if we found undeniable evidence there's another planet out there with life as advanced as ours, this planet is 700 trillion miles away. We could never communicate with them and we could never travel there. There would be absolutely no benefit to knowing there's anything out there.

Instead of spending all that money on looking in to space, spend it on something useful that could benefit people on earth.

Newtons law of physics has been in question for some years now, and there appears to be growing confidence in the scientific community it's will be completely superceded by more understanding of "dark energy".

 

[jazzy]

I will vote for anything that stops religion , it's responsible for more wars and deaths than any thing else.