(March 19, 2014 at 1:44 am)snowtracks Wrote: brandon carter pretty much put the kibosh on naturalistic evolution when he calculated the odds that other intelligent being exist in the U.
"In a very interesting research paper published in 1983, physicist Brandon Carter calculated the probability for a species as technically advanced as human beings to have developed from a microbial species in ten billion years or less. The odds are 10^-24,000,000. This result completely rules out the possibility of any extraterrestrial intelligence arising anywhere in the Universe but also the impossibility of human life arising from any naturalistic means." Source: Carter, Brandon, “The Anthropic Principle and its implications for Biological Evolution”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A 310, pp- 347-60. (1983).
these odds demonstrate improbability that intelligent life arouse on
Have you studied and verified his calculations? His methodology?
I certainly mistrust this result from 30+ years ago as we now have much more information on how many planets there may be in the universe.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.