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  • #16
    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Just like here on earth microbes are not sentient life and therefore are incapable of being fallen and in need of being saved.
    Lighten up rogue06 it was a joke.

    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Now whether or not any sentient life was also effected by Adam's actions and their result would be an entirely different question. I think it would depend on just how universally (no pun intended) it is meant when it says that all of creation was effected. After all, all doesn't always mean "all" ()
    [my emphasis] Do you mean "affected"?
    "It ain't necessarily so
    The things that you're liable
    To read in the Bible
    It ain't necessarily so
    ."

    Sportin' Life
    Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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    • #17
      1) There is too little known about Venus and too little known about phosphine to get all excited about this. We've seen similar overreactions about molecular life "evidence" on Mars.
      2) Theologically, it means nothing. There is nothing scriptural about extraterrestrial life.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by TheWall View Post
        Out of The Silent Planet.
        That whole trilogy explores the theological implications of intelligent life on other planets. Well worth reading.
        Curiosity never hurt anyone. It was stupidity that killed the cat.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Ronson View Post
          1) There is too little known about Venus and too little known about phosphine to get all excited about this. We've seen similar overreactions about molecular life "evidence" on Mars.
          It would be extraordinary if there was “molecular life” next door to us in our own solar system. But it’s possible.

          Conversely, given the sheer vastness on the known universe, the number of technological civilizations should literally number in the millions (in our galaxy alone). It consists of about 100 thousand million stars, most with their own solar systems.

          2) Theologically, it means nothing. There is nothing scriptural about extraterrestrial life.
          Of course not. Terrestrial life was all that was thought to exist in the geocentric universe of the scripture writers.
          “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
            Lighten up rogue06 it was a joke.

            [my emphasis] Do you mean "affected"?
            indoobloobably

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #21
              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
              indoobloobably
              I suspected as much.
              "It ain't necessarily so
              The things that you're liable
              To read in the Bible
              It ain't necessarily so
              ."

              Sportin' Life
              Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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              • #22

                Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                Conversely, given the sheer vastness on the known universe, the number of technological civilizations should literally number in the millions (in our galaxy alone). It consists of about 100 thousand million stars, most with their own solar systems.
                Have you read John Gribbin's The Reason Why? He makes a very good case that while life may indeed exist on other planets, advanced intelligent life [as in humans] may be limited to this planet.





                "It ain't necessarily so
                The things that you're liable
                To read in the Bible
                It ain't necessarily so
                ."

                Sportin' Life
                Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by TheWall View Post
                  Out of The Silent Planet.

                  That was a great trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I think That Hideous Strength was the best novel in the series.
                  "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings." Hosea 6:6

                  "Theology can be an intellectual entertainment." Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                    Have you read John Gribbin's The Reason Why? He makes a very good case that while life may indeed exist on other planets, advanced intelligent life [as in humans] may be limited to this planet.

                    I haven’t read this book. Nevertheless, I find it difficult to believe that out of the vast number of galaxies and solar systems in the universe that Earth is the only planet to have evolved advanced intelligent life.

                    Research released in 2016 revised the number of galaxies in the observable universe from a previous estimate of 200 billion (2×1011) to a suggested two trillion (2×1012) or more and, overall, as many as an estimated 1×1024 stars (more stars than all the grains of sand on planet Earth). Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone”.

                    https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...the%20universe.








                    “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                      Have you read John Gribbin's The Reason Why? He makes a very good case that while life may indeed exist on other planets, advanced intelligent life [as in humans] may be limited to this planet.
                      There is a definite tendency for folks to conflate life with intelligent life. The former is almost a mathematical certainty whereas the latter is definitely not anywhere close to being one.

                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Tassman View Post

                        I haven’t read this book. Nevertheless, I find it difficult to believe that out of the vast number of galaxies and solar systems in the universe that Earth is the only planet to have evolved advanced intelligent life.

                        Research released in 2016 revised the number of galaxies in the observable universe from a previous estimate of 200 billion (2×1011) to a suggested two trillion (2×1012) or more and, overall, as many as an estimated 1×1024 stars (more stars than all the grains of sand on planet Earth). Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone”.

                        https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...the%20universe.







                        I take your point and I tend to agree. There are some lines in Carl Sagan's novel Contact, "All those billions of worlds going to waste, lifeless, barren? Intelligent beings growing up only in this obscure corner of an incomprehensibly vast universe?"[...]It dovetailed perfectly with human fears and pretensions, with unproved doctrines about life-after-death, with such pseudosciences as astrology. It was the modern incarnation of the geocentric solipsism, the conceit that had captured our ancestors, the notion that we were the centre of the universe."

                        However, we cannot ignore the possibility that, insofar as intelligent/human life is concerned, Gribbins' argument holds.
                        "It ain't necessarily so
                        The things that you're liable
                        To read in the Bible
                        It ain't necessarily so
                        ."

                        Sportin' Life
                        Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                          There is a definite tendency for folks to conflate life with intelligent life. The former is almost a mathematical certainty whereas the latter is definitely not anywhere close to being one.
                          Hence Gribbins' book. Have you read it?
                          "It ain't necessarily so
                          The things that you're liable
                          To read in the Bible
                          It ain't necessarily so
                          ."

                          Sportin' Life
                          Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

                            Hence Gribbins' book. Have you read it?
                            Don't think so but I remember reading one where the author showed, among other things, it would likely be far cheaper for a civilization to actually planet-scape a relatively nearby world so that it would suit their needs than to make repeated trips half way across the galaxy to get stuff. The point being even if there was intelligent life out there somewhere the odds of them coming here for some reason are infinitesimally small.

                            I'm always still in trouble again

                            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                              Don't think so but I remember reading one where the author showed, among other things, it would likely be far cheaper for a civilization to actually planet-scape a relatively nearby world so that it would suit their needs than to make repeated trips half way across the galaxy to get stuff. The point being even if there was intelligent life out there somewhere the odds of them coming here for some reason are infinitesimally small.
                              Do you have the title? As to our ever contacting another form of intelligent life [if such a species exists] I agree with you. The vastness of space makes it somewhat unlikely.
                              "It ain't necessarily so
                              The things that you're liable
                              To read in the Bible
                              It ain't necessarily so
                              ."

                              Sportin' Life
                              Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

                              Comment


                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

                                Do you have the title? As to our ever contacting another form of intelligent life [if such a species exists] I agree with you. The vastness of space makes it somewhat unlikely.
                                Too many years back. When my eyesight still permitted me to read a book a day.

                                I'm always still in trouble again

                                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

                                Comment

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