Do you believe extraterrestrial life is possible?

[yoda313]

Hello,
A lot of people on this forum seem to like science fiction so I thought this would be an interesting poll.
Kevin

[Treebeard]

life possible? yes in form of plants and organisms, but not intelligent life.

[DVD_Ripper]

life possible? yes in form of plants and organisms, but not intelligent life.

Agree.... even on Mars a few billion years back...

[Capmaster]

Sure. I ran through a rough probability equation once and it was something like: The universe has at least 100 billion galaxies. Each galaxy has at least 100 million stars. Even if only one in a million stars had a planet that would support life, and only one in a million of those would have life advanced enough to be sentient, you'd still be almost assured of having millions of planets with sentient life.

It's hard not to consider the likelihood, IMHO.

[yoda313]

Hello,
Thanks guys for writing. But did you see my third or fourth choice:
Yes - but not intelligent life
You two should have picked that one.

Kevin
P.S. I do believe intelligent extraterrestial life is possible. Are they here? Who knows (most likely not), but there are too many strange things in life to discount ALL possibilites.

[tompika]

Of course its possible.

In fact there are girls on Jupiter too.
http://sk.nvg.org/cos/speeches/Jupiter.mp3

[tekkieman]

Of course. As Capmaster already pointed out, it's almost a mathematical certainty.

[888888]

I have no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe. Probability alone.

[yoda313]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

[888888]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

I was reading an article about human evolution the other day. We really are pretty low on the evolution chain. We are one step away from being barking monkeys throwing their feces at each other. Humans are just apes who got lucky and stopped evolving when they discovered the basics. There are probably way more evolved aliens who don't have our feeble limitations.

[Treebeard]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

I was reading an article about human evolution the other day. We really are pretty low on the evolution chain. We are one step away from being barking monkeys throwing their feces at each other. Humans are just apes who got lucky and stopped evolving when they discovered the basics. There are probably way more evolved aliens who don't have our feeble limitations.

Hogwash

[tekkieman]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

That's not a difficult feat!

[888888]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

I was reading an article about human evolution the other day. We really are pretty low on the evolution chain. We are one step away from being barking monkeys throwing their feces at each other. Humans are just apes who got lucky and stopped evolving when they discovered the basics. There are probably way more evolved aliens who don't have our feeble limitations.

Hogwash

Are you an anti-evolutionist?

[Treebeard]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

I was reading an article about human evolution the other day. We really are pretty low on the evolution chain. We are one step away from being barking monkeys throwing their feces at each other. Humans are just apes who got lucky and stopped evolving when they discovered the basics. There are probably way more evolved aliens who don't have our feeble limitations.

Hogwash

Are you an anti-evolutionist?

you can tell huh!

[888888]

Hello,

888888-no doubt that there is way more intelligent life than us in the universe

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

Kevin

I was reading an article about human evolution the other day. We really are pretty low on the evolution chain. We are one step away from being barking monkeys throwing their feces at each other. Humans are just apes who got lucky and stopped evolving when they discovered the basics. There are probably way more evolved aliens who don't have our feeble limitations.

Hogwash

Are you an anti-evolutionist?

you can tell huh!

Are you a creationist then? Or do you believe aliens left us here?

[Treebeard]

Creationist.

[vitualis]

You crazy Americans...

Even the Pope states that Genesis is not to be taken literally...

Regards.

[Treebeard]

You crazy Americans...

Even the Pope states that Genesis is not to be taken literally...

Regards.

But Im not catholic and actually read the Bible for myself.

[888888]

Creationist.

I remember my biology teacher in High School telling us how he personally didn't believe in evolution. I believe he was a creationist as well. Sometimes I have a hard time believing evolution theory too, but the similarity between fossils sure makes evolution look plausible. Anyway, people can believe whatever they want I guess and I can respect that.

[vitualis]

And before you took your modern English interpretation as fact, I suppose that you studied the original Hewbrew and Greek versions and studied historical studies of the society at the time to put it into context??

Of course, in a rather nice survey a few years ago, less than 50% of American priests/ministers knew all 10 commandments and more than 70% of them believed in aliens as fact...

Sorry, pet gripe of mine... but the US is full of religious fundamentalist of a different kind.

Regards.

[gitreel]

When you see little green men, you will know. :P

[Treebeard]

And before you took your modern English interpretation as fact, I suppose that you studied the original Hewbrew and Greek versions and studied historical studies of the society at the time to put it into context??

Of course, in a rather nice survey a few years ago, less than 50% of American priests/ministers knew all 10 commandments and more than 70% of them believed in aliens as fact...

Sorry, pet gripe of mine... but the US is full of religious fundamentalist of a different kind.

Regards.

Its takes people of all kinds to make up America unfortunately.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Sometimes I have a hard time believing evolution theory too, but the similarity between fossils sure makes evolution look plausible

I tend to agree with that. Though, I tend to take the stance that God (or another supreme being- depending on your upbringing) CREATED the Universe. The rest followed a pattern that scientists are trying to answer in a logical sense. ---See, there can be room for both ----

Kevin

[yoda313]

Hello,
Uh oh, we've got two that answered "dude, I am one - take me to your leader!"

Quick, call the MEN IN BLACK!!!

Call the X-FILES!!!

Call the GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!!

HELP!!!

Kevin

EDIT -- 8-13-04 --- NOW WE HAVE 3 ALIENS HERE--- RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!

[888888]

Hello,

Sometimes I have a hard time believing evolution theory too, but the similarity between fossils sure makes evolution look plausible

I tend to agree with that. Though, I tend to take the stance that God (or another supreme being- depending on your upbringing) CREATED the Universe. The rest followed a pattern that scientists are trying to answer in a logical sense. ---See, there can be room for both ----

Kevin

I forgot what that is called but I believe that is what Newton, and other Enlightenment scientists and politicians believed in. Something about god being the great clock-maker I remember.

[vitualis]

Evolutionary theory is FACT. We see it all the time if you don't put your head in the sand. What is so damn difficult to accept that living organisms can change in time with the sort of changes being determined by environmental pressures and that there are mechanisms of speciation??

For organisms with very short generation times (e.g., bacteria and viruses) you can see evolution working away easily. The fossil record is clear. Animals have changed in time.

Whether you believe in creation or not really has nothing to do with evolutionary theory. It's like dog-headedly believing the Earth is flat. Genesis simply tells us that the Christian God created the universe including man. That hardly mutually excludes evolution. If you want to believe, then you could believe that the Christian God created man through the mechanism of evolution... as many Christian biologists do.

Regards.

[yoda313]

Hello,

888888-I forgot what that is called but I believe that is what Newton, and other Enlightenment scientists and politicians believed in. Something about god being the great clock-maker I remember.

Thanks! It's hard to be totally in one camp or the other when both have perfectly valid points. You can't have the Big Bang without wondering what STARTED it. And you can't have Creationism completely without looking at the fossil record and going, hmmmm????

Kevin

P.S. Both sides have a point, who's right? We'll probably never know.

[Capmaster]

C'mon guys. I'm new at this mod thing, but isn't this a discussion of religion?

[Treebeard]

C'mon guys. I'm new at this mod thing, but isn't this a discussion of religion?

Its gotten pretty close a few times, but nobody here is crossing any lines I dont think.

[888888]

C'mon guys. I'm new at this mod thing, but isn't this a discussion of religion?

It is science and history. Nothing wrong with that?