I'm gonna take this apart, peice by peice
Yeah. Except for the fact that life only seems to exist on the crust, which is kinda a small part of the earth. And even that crust has some places that are pretty damn inhospitable to life like the poles. And humans can't live on 2/3 of the planets surface because we need to live on dry land. So, once you get past those details, ok, yeah, earth is a pretty good place to live.
There's an entire field of science, abiogenesis, that researches the emergence of life from non-living matter. I can't say I'm a big follower on it, but I do know scientists have created amino acids in a lab without any other organic materials, and seeing as how amino acids are the basic building blocks of life, it isn't a stretch to think that they could create single celled organisms from that.
Emphasis mine.
No, we don't know life exists elsewhere. But we've only mapped out an extremely small portion of the universe. And we've only been able to closely examine that small portion of the universe for a very short time. So, suppose there's life about 3,000 light years away; we'll probably never have any contact with it.... but it will still be there. And suppose there was life in orbit of Alpha Sentari, but it died out a million years ago. Again, we wouldn't have any real way of knowing about it.
All we know is a small section of the universe and only for a small window before humanity dies out, too.
The odds are 100% that life started here. If it hadn't started here, well, we wouldn't be here to wonder what the odds are. If life had started elsewhere, we would have wondered what the odds were that life would start there. So maybe a more accurate question would be, what are the chances beings would sit and wonder the chances of their own existance (and that seems to be about 100% for intellectually evolved beings).
(February 27, 2014 at 3:26 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: The earth is in the PERFECT place for life,
Yeah. Except for the fact that life only seems to exist on the crust, which is kinda a small part of the earth. And even that crust has some places that are pretty damn inhospitable to life like the poles. And humans can't live on 2/3 of the planets surface because we need to live on dry land. So, once you get past those details, ok, yeah, earth is a pretty good place to live.
Quote: and has the PERFECT resources for life. And it all just came along?
There's an entire field of science, abiogenesis, that researches the emergence of life from non-living matter. I can't say I'm a big follower on it, but I do know scientists have created amino acids in a lab without any other organic materials, and seeing as how amino acids are the basic building blocks of life, it isn't a stretch to think that they could create single celled organisms from that.
Quote:The universe is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo big and yet we're the only known place with life.
Emphasis mine.
No, we don't know life exists elsewhere. But we've only mapped out an extremely small portion of the universe. And we've only been able to closely examine that small portion of the universe for a very short time. So, suppose there's life about 3,000 light years away; we'll probably never have any contact with it.... but it will still be there. And suppose there was life in orbit of Alpha Sentari, but it died out a million years ago. Again, we wouldn't have any real way of knowing about it.
All we know is a small section of the universe and only for a small window before humanity dies out, too.
Quote: What are the odds? And you guys say Christianity is crazy...
The odds are 100% that life started here. If it hadn't started here, well, we wouldn't be here to wonder what the odds are. If life had started elsewhere, we would have wondered what the odds were that life would start there. So maybe a more accurate question would be, what are the chances beings would sit and wonder the chances of their own existance (and that seems to be about 100% for intellectually evolved beings).
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
