(July 24, 2014 at 5:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: 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.
You need a lot more than just a planet in order for life to even be possible.
Quote: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.
Why would any of them have produced life? How many of these planets have atmospheres? How many of them have liquid water? You do not know if any of them even have the necessary preconditions to even begin discussing abiogenesis.
Quote:I know humans love to think how "special" they are but the universe is an incomprehensibly large space that most of us cannot grasp.
Significance and value is not necessarily based upon size, if you think that is the case then I’ll trade you all of my large nickels for your small dimes.
Quote: 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.
Even if this were true it’d be irrelevant because that was not even the original claim, the original claim was that it is more likely that aliens exist than any god, so you’re going to have to deal with the probability of any god existing not just Yahweh. I get so tired of you guys making claims that you cannot back up.
