Evidence God Exists

[KichigaiNeko]

Gotta call bull then on your statement because you presented it as fact. There is reason to believe there may have been life on either Venus or Mars, but no hard evidence.

Got to be careful you know about making firm statements.... their are theists on these boards who will ridicule us if we start making unfounded claims.

Overall though its an interesting possibility, and that life on earth started from life on another planet. Although if it started on another planet first then it could equally have started here as well so without some evidence of DNA fragments being found on either Mars or Venus then there is no reason to believe that our life is the same as the life that (may have) formed there. After all, DNA is surely not the only possible basis for life, RNA was an also-ran, and others like GNA/TNA(?) have been synthesized. Neucleonic acids may even not be the only possible basis, just the only one we we know of.

Looking at what we understand of pre-history and the history of the planet, there is little reason to believe that life came from elsewhere. Current theories put the start of life at something like 4Ga years ago, and the Earth formed something like 4.5Ga, which is only 1/2 a Ga difference and for a lot of that time earth was being heavily bombarded and impacted so not very easy for early life to survive. In order for life to have arisen on another planet first it would have had to develop in a shorter timescale than that of thought to have happened on earth and then also jumped to earth as well....

Not saying it isn't possible, its just not the simplest theory, Occam's razor and all that.

Just WHAT are we defining as 'Life' here ...a microbe can be counted as 'Life' on a distant planet(toid) so let's get some clarification cos too may people think that because science speculates that 'life' once / does exist on Mars or Venus that that is proof positive that humanoid species are there.

sometimes 'le plebian' are just too simplistic!