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originally posted by: Ahmose
please.
like you would know.
you silly *ignorant* people and your 'absolutes'.
deny what?
right, no other people in the universe.
brilliant!
that is beyond ignorant..
we dont even have a word for how ridiculous that is..... lol
[edit on 17-6-2010 by Ahmose]
originally posted by: sonics1030
a reply to: Needalight
As a matter of fact, I do and you're the one that are being ignorant. Allow me to show you why.
Here go a few facts that refute the existence of life outside of Earth (incoming wall of text):
FACT #1: Based on our fastest capable speeds it would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest solar system. Even if we went at a fraction of that speed and collided with a small rock on the way the ship would be utterly destroyed. And the probability of life in any one solar system is so astronomically remote, the nearest system would not be merely 70,000 years away but at best billions of years away and more likely trillions of years away. So even if life did exist on another planet, it's irrelevant.
FACT #2: Even if an alien race existed they would still need a cause as well, and on and on, but infinite regress is impossible, because if there was an eternity of the past of cause and effects, we would have happened already, having had an eternity to do so. Moreover, we would not have existed, because an eternity would still be going on before it could every reach this point. Infinite regress is not only proven false on both accounts but inherently contradictory.
FACT #3: There have not been enough interatomic interactions in the history of the universe for life to exist on another planet. Science doesn't know what life is and can't explain how life arose from the chaos of an explosion that sterilized the entire cosmos a trillion times over. "Natural selection" is no help. It can neither create life nor assist the first living thing to start functioning. The first living cell would have had to come about by pure chance. But this is mathematically impossible--and there is no arguing with mathematics.
There are approximately 10^80 atoms in the cosmos. Assuming 10^12 interatomic interactions per second per atom, and 10^18 seconds (30 billion years) as twice the evolutionists' age of the universe, we get 10^110 (80 +12+18) as the total number of possible interatomic interactions in 30 billion years.
If each interatomic interaction produced a unique molecule, then no more than 10^110 unique molecules could have ever existed in the universe. About 1,000 protein molecules composed of amino acids are needed for the most primitive form of life. To find a proper sequence of 200 amino acids for a relatively short protein molecule has been calculated to require "about 10^130 trials. This is a hundred billion billion times the total number of molecules ever to exist in the history of the cosmos! No random process could ever result in even one such protein structure, much less the full set of roughly 1000 needed in the simplest form of life.
"It is therefore sheer irrationality...to believe that random chemical interactions could ever [form] a viable set of functional proteins out of the truly staggering number of candidate possibilities. In the face of such stunningly unfavourable odds, how could any scientist with any sense of honesty appeal to chance interactions as the explanation for the complexity we see in living systems? To do so with conscious awareness of these numbers, in my opinion, represents a serious breach of scientific integrity" (John R. Baumgardener, Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. See In Six Days, pp. 224-25).
Donald Page, an eminent cosmologist, calculated the odds of the universe existing 10(10^1240). Remember, the simplest physical structure upon which natural selection might operate must happen by chance--and it can't.
When anyone says that an eye, for example, couldn't happen by chance, Dawkins responds in an offended tone, "Well, of course an eye couldn't happen by chance! Natural selection is the very opposite of chance!" But Dawkins doesn't mention that natural selection is impossible without some living thing that can replicate itself.
This are the main reasons why I don't believe in life outside of Earth, not because there's no proof, but because it's illogical.
Actually just recently they found a potentially earth-like planet that's just 16 light years away Source. Not saying this is 100% proof that aliens exist, but that contradicts your "fact" # 1.
originally posted by: FinalCountdown
a reply to: sonics1030
Modern man has been around what, 100,000 years full on maybe.
This planet had been here for 6,000,000,000 years or so.
The universe has even older parts as you know.
If we (modern man) can go from darkness to electricity, from darkness to space travel, human cloning and the internet in less than 150 years, then I think there are totally aliens out there, everywhere. Even here.
Where will we be in another 150 years?
Based on how far we advanced in the last 150, I would say that 'we' will be the new "alien" out there.
originally posted by: sonics1030
Actually just recently they found a potentially earth-like planet that's just 16 light years away Source. Not saying this is 100% proof that aliens exist, but that contradicts your "fact" # 1.
originally posted by: FinalCountdown
a reply to: sonics1030
Modern man has been around what, 100,000 years full on maybe.
This planet had been here for 6,000,000,000 years or so.
The universe has even older parts as you know.
If we (modern man) can go from darkness to electricity, from darkness to space travel, human cloning and the internet in less than 150 years, then I think there are totally aliens out there, everywhere. Even here.
Where will we be in another 150 years?
Based on how far we advanced in the last 150, I would say that 'we' will be the new "alien" out there.
Well, if you're expecting humanity to eventually develop a technology that allows for FTL spacetravel, then not only it would have to break the laws of physics since FTL travel is considered impossible by what scientists know up to now, but it wouldn't make much difference by itself, because, according to the relativity, time and speed are connected, so if someone were to travel in a FTL spaceship, when they arrived back here, everyone that person knew would be dead and he/she would have missed generations worth of time (depending on the speed at which he/she traveled and the time it took to arrive).
Also, don't get me wrong. I would love to meet an alien civilization, learn about them, their culture, technology, etc, but I simply don't believe it will ever heppen.
originally posted by: chaosboy
reply to post by hornum
One theory is as likely as the other. But there is a third alternative. What if these "aliens" are actually beings from the future...or from another universe?
originally posted by: waltwillis
They don't exist...they don't exist...they don't exist...But they are coming to take me away!
Away I say to a better place where we can play and play all day!
How stupid can anyone be to make such a statement?
We just don't know what we don't know, so how in the hell can we say what we don't know?
It sounds so damn arrogant to me for anyone to make such a statement...
"The culture of Narcissism" is a must read book to understand the thinking of people that talk this way.
It is impossible to reason with a fool or a mentally ill individual.