Do you think there's a point to your existence??

[Minimalist]

Don't you agree that the universe would have been void of meaning if humans were not created?

YOu are not as important as you think you are.

And your bullshit god is even less important.

[Bgood]

Christian wrote

The problem is that with billions of dollars spent on exploration of the space, scientists have not found anything. Why spend so much when they can simply look up for the answers in the Holy Book.

Actually, you make a very good point there.......Not! What kind of "answers" are we to find in the Holy Book that relate to the cosmos....that the earth is flat and that Jesus is an astrotheological personification of the sun?

I know big words like that probably confound you terribly but just sound them out, break them down and then google "astro-theo-logical person-ification of Jesus" to see what I mean. Your Bible is a con job.

[AthiestAtheist]

No, not really. I exist, and that's all there is to it. There being "a point" to existence has never really mattered to me. Now, why I'm me and not someone else is always an interesting question.

If you didn't mean personal existence, but existence in general, then what I said still applies.

[Orion3T]

That's very arrogant. Very very arrogant.
What makes you think we're the only ones with nature's gift of reason? Billions of stars, billions of planets orbiting them and billions of galaxies. Good chance there are other sapient beings out there. Just saying.

Playing by your own rules, please provide evidence of this claim.

Our own tiny insignificant solar system has enough environments which may be, or have been, conducive to life:

Mars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Search_for_life
Enceladus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_(...ater_ocean
Titan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon...sible_life
Europa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moo...trial_life
Callisto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_(m..._the_ocean

Whether any of those really did, do, or will have life is still very uncertain.

The point is that life may not be nearly as unlikely as we egocentric beings naturally tend to think. Let's remove Earth from the equation - that's still several other environments in our solar system which have the potential for life. Multiply that by 9 x 10^21. Or if you really need the zeroes:

9 000 000 000 000 000 000 000


Of course, with a sample size of 1 Solar System, we cannot be sure how many of those might have life. But I think most scientists agree the odds are in life's favour.

[Aegrus]

That's very arrogant. Very very arrogant.
What makes you think we're the only ones with nature's gift of reason? Billions of stars, billions of planets orbiting them and billions of galaxies. Good chance there are other sapient beings out there. Just saying.

Playing by your own rules, please provide evidence of this claim.

Evidence? Ace isn't making an absolute claim that aliens exist- he said that it's likely. Given that there are hundreds of billions of planets in the universe, each with a chance to support life, I'd say it's very likely that intelligent life exists somewhere.

Or are you such an idiot that you're asking where the proof is for hundreds of billions of planets existing?