(January 25, 2017 at 5:03 am)ignoramus Wrote:Quote:'There is only one advanced technological civilisation in this galaxy and there has only ever been one - and that's us. We are unique.
Presenter makes bold claim during BBC documentary. He says the spark of life on earth billions of years ago was a fluke
'We still struggle to understand what happened. It's incredibly unusual'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...nique.html
I must admit, I was surprised to read this from Brian Cox...
What do you think? Can you get your mind around the concept that we are alone? And always have and always will be?
I can hear the theists saying: I told you we're special, you just don't listen...
If there were other advanced civilizations, theists would point to "God's creative activity", or something like that. As far as being alone, there is some evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Granted, prosaic explanations exist, and until (and if) it is replicated, it will simply amount to nothing more than pure speculation, but it's better than anything that religion has produced.
