Not "aliens." Too much baggage with that term. Extraterrestrial life.
Conservative estimates are of 100-200 billion galaxies with an average of 100 billion stars in each galaxy. Planets seem to be fairly commonplace according to recent studies which means that the possible nurseries for life exist in the universe in abundance.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8...8C11529186
If 1/10th of 1 percent actually produced life ( or even (1/100th of one percent) it would still be a staggering number just in this one galaxy. I know humans love to think how "special" they are but the universe is an incomprehensibly large space that most of us cannot grasp.
Whereas, we know that yahweh emerged from the Canaanite pantheon in the late bronze age and became associated with the southern polity known as Judah. In the Persian period, he got a big promotion to "Creator of the Universe" when the idea of monotheism took hold thanks to the Persians and their Boss Hooter of a god, Ahura Mazda.
Conservative estimates are of 100-200 billion galaxies with an average of 100 billion stars in each galaxy. Planets seem to be fairly commonplace according to recent studies which means that the possible nurseries for life exist in the universe in abundance.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8...8C11529186
Quote:8.8 billion habitable Earth-size planets exist in Milky Way alone
If 1/10th of 1 percent actually produced life ( or even (1/100th of one percent) it would still be a staggering number just in this one galaxy. I know humans love to think how "special" they are but the universe is an incomprehensibly large space that most of us cannot grasp.
Whereas, we know that yahweh emerged from the Canaanite pantheon in the late bronze age and became associated with the southern polity known as Judah. In the Persian period, he got a big promotion to "Creator of the Universe" when the idea of monotheism took hold thanks to the Persians and their Boss Hooter of a god, Ahura Mazda.
