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Do you believe in intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe?

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Do you believe in intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

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buckeyegrad said:
I want to honor Thump's request to keep religion out of this, so let me put it this way without getting in too deep. First, by definition God is not something that can be proved or disproved by humans, so the null burden is meaningless in such a question. Second, if we were to set aside my first objection, I would argue that the null burden is satisfied by the millions and millions who have a shared experience with the divine over the past 4000 years.
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I'll conceed the null business, though I still think on questions of philosophy it's arbitrary. Nessie is a physical consideration to test. And, frankly, it's no big deal to assume Nessie exists, and go sit there and wait and wait and wait.. at some threshhold you decide the thing must not exist since you've become satisfied by the lack of evidence. Not efficient, but who cares? Efficiency is not the end all be all of life.

On the religion issue, maybe we need to start a different thread, cause I'm interested in your "deep" answer, as this one - respectfully - glosses over the problem in a way far too convienent.
 
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Thump said:
What if other intelligent life has a religion that says they are the only ones in the Universe and then they meet us that have the same belief?
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Then I think we realize we're both wrong in the particulars, but we may have common ground in the generalities... Which is what i was getting at on page one.. I'd be very interested to know what Aliens think about God, if anything at all.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
I'll conceed the null business, though I still think on questions of philosophy it's arbitrary. Nessie is a physical consideration to test. And, frankly, it's no big deal to assume Nessie exists, and go sit there and wait and wait and wait.. at some threshhold you decide the thing must not exist since you've become satisfied by the lack of evidence. Not efficient, but who cares? Efficiency is not the end all be all of life.

On the religion issue, maybe we need to start a different thread, cause I'm interested in your "deep" answer, as this one - respectfully - glosses over the problem in a way far too convienent.
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I'll start a twin thread in the poli. forum.

Would still like to keep this one here for the science aspect of the question.
 
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If there is intellgent life out there, I wonder how advanced or archaic their technology would be?

People assume that they would be far advanced but who says they wouldn't be behind us in technological aspects.
 
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Thump said:
Now I think your quotes will get some people riled up but you bring an opinion that I think needs explained. Why do you think it is such a given that there is intelligent life out there?
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Let's see:

  • There are billions of galaxies each with over a billions stars (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars minimum).
  • Astronomers have found an abundance of material in space needed to form amino acids.
  • Scientists have discovered forms of life right here on Earth that thrive in environments previously thought as hostile to life (in polar ice, near deep-sea fissures where the water is near boiling, etc.).
  • It has been shown that bacteria can survive intact in the void of space.

That right there tells me that without a doubt life exists somewhere else.
 
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