So, Aliens.....

LouReedwalkonthewildside · January 9, 2017

The Cowboy said:
This is the bit I don't get. What are you talking about? You seem to be suggesting that god is a physical being.

He used to drink in the Eagle & Child, he's a boss pisshead.

gonetomorrow · January 9, 2017

I married a monster from outer space.

kev · January 9, 2017

Ashtonian said:
Again it says it in the bible. Generally if you ask any religious person where god is they will point up.

I'm hardly speculating here!

I freely admit to having never read the bible, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the texts.
Perhaps you could quote me the specific chapter which says "God is in the sky, the devil is below the ground"
Ta.

larbert toffee · January 9, 2017

Ashtonian said:
I am talking theoretically.

God is in the sky, the devil is below the ground. So if you believe so much in the sky god then go and find him, rather than sit on the ground and argue about who's god is greater.

Personally i am an athiest, so don't believe in god. But others do, and some of those war over it, whereas if all that money and effort was put into society to further advance technology then perhaps exploring space and finding life within 100 years isn't too much of a fantasy.

I mean step one is finding a way to get back from mars.....

They may be working in unison on the same level?

Ashtonian · January 9, 2017

kev said:
I freely admit to having never read the bible, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the texts.
Perhaps you could quote me the specific chapter which says "God is in the sky, the devil is below the ground"
Ta.

Psalm 19:1
Verse Concepts

The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

Genesis 1:8
Verse Concepts

God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Signs In The Sky
Acts 2:19
Verse Concepts
'AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE.

That is pretty much a there you go there.

Psalm 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above And opened the doors of heaven;

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? (Job 11:8 KJV

Are they enough?

Ashtonian · January 9, 2017

larbert toffee said:
They may be working in unison on the same level?

and where would that be located?

larbert toffee · January 9, 2017

Ashtonian said:
and where would that be located?

Somewhere they will not be easily noticed? The progress and development office at your work? Can't be much endeavour or efficiency there for all the time you're on here.

evilwebby · January 9, 2017

peteblue said:
I mean extra terrestrial (calm down Bruce).......personally I reckon there are loads out there, for no other reason than there are so many planets that we can't even count them.......so yes or no.......

I'm healthily skeptical of the atheist-types who spew this argument. The universe is finite. There is every possibility, maybe even a high probability that sentient life on Earth is unique in our known universe, and even more than Science cannot even come close to reproducing organic matter from inorganics. The probability that a volcano erupts and somehow the atoms thrown off land in a pattern that is able to reproduce itself is... dubious.

The Cowboy · January 9, 2017

evilwebby said:
I'm healthily skeptical of the atheist-types who spew this argument. The universe is finite. There is every possibility, maybe even a high probability that sentient life on Earth is unique in our known universe, and even more than Science cannot even come close to reproducing organic matter from inorganics. The probability that a volcano erupts and somehow the atoms thrown off land in a pattern that is able to reproduce itself is... dubious.

Well, life happened here, so there's no reason why it can't happen elsewhere. That's how I see it.

But given how far away the nearest star is, the chances of us ever finding out about other life is pretty much zero.

Eggs · January 9, 2017

...there is definitely life on other planets, I saw ET.

terry nodder · January 9, 2017

Eggs said:
...there is definitely life on other planets, I saw ET.

He lived in USA though.

ThAnKs TeD

GwladysPhil · January 9, 2017

Thinking that an infinite number of galaxies does not contain life is very arrogant.

Will we ever meet it? I really doubt it.

larbert toffee · January 9, 2017

Eggs said:
...there is definitely life on other planets, I saw ET.

terry nodder said:
He lived in USA though.

ThAnKs TeD

Eureka! a dapper alien thread

Ashtonian · January 9, 2017

As i have said before.

Life may already be out there but not as we percieve it. we see Aliens on having two legs, two arms, a head etc. Why does that have to be intelligent life? what if it doesn't look like what we expect it to?

In fact what if it is beyond out comprehension? We only know life as we have experienced it but in an infinite space, with infinite planets so to speak, there is plenty out there we cannot comprehend and therefore intelligent life or even advanced life forms may exist beyond our logic to process.

The Cowboy · January 9, 2017

Ashtonian said:
As i have said before.

Life may already be out there but not as we percieve it. we see Aliens on having two legs, two arms, a head etc. Why does that have to be intelligent life? what if it doesn't look like what we expect it to?

In fact what if it is beyond out comprehension? We only know life as we have experienced it but in an infinite space, with infinite planets so to speak, there is plenty out there we cannot comprehend and therefore intelligent life or even advanced life forms may exist beyond our logic to process.

Except as we've discussed, given the elemental makeup of the universe, life will pretty much have to be of a form within our comprehension.