2012-03-20, 09:33 AM
I believe in evolution and the fact that life on Earth did not come from a divine entity.
Sure, the likely hood of life being sprung is incredibly low, but look how many galaxies there are out there. There are billions of them. Maybe hundreds of billions. We've barely explored a small part of the universe with our telescopes. What we've found is that there are hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions of stars inside each of these galaxies. Usually, more than half of the stars in each galaxy have planets orbiting around them. That means there are perhaps trillions of stars with trillions of planets circling them.
Even with that 'Goldylocks' zone as a speculated requirement for life to be possible, it is not that mind boggling that life can be sprung. We've had how many years of this planet with life on it? It is almost 5 billion years old. That's a very long time and Human life has only existed for what? 64,000 years or so? That's a very small fraction of Earth's lifespan versus the other 4.5 billion years Earth was around. It is not that unlikely for an intellectual creature to come into existence with these variables. Life adapts and evolves to continue living for ages. They grow smarter and learn how to survive. We're just a result of that.
With the amount of possible planets there are out there, I don't see it as too unlikely that there's another planet just like ours, with life. Must they be as intelligent or more intelligent than us? No. Even if there is life out there smarter than us, I do not see it likely that we would ever meet with them. The universe is rapidly expanding, growing faster and faster, thus galaxies are moving further and further away from each other. With how much space there is between celestial bodies in the universe and the fact that we haven't been able to find life on planets we've discovered within the small (yet very large) amount of the universe we've been able to explore, I don't ever see it happening that we'll run into another species like us.
I probably went off-topic a bit in there. I lost my thought train due to something else, so I'll just cut it off here. xd
Sure, the likely hood of life being sprung is incredibly low, but look how many galaxies there are out there. There are billions of them. Maybe hundreds of billions. We've barely explored a small part of the universe with our telescopes. What we've found is that there are hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions of stars inside each of these galaxies. Usually, more than half of the stars in each galaxy have planets orbiting around them. That means there are perhaps trillions of stars with trillions of planets circling them.
Even with that 'Goldylocks' zone as a speculated requirement for life to be possible, it is not that mind boggling that life can be sprung. We've had how many years of this planet with life on it? It is almost 5 billion years old. That's a very long time and Human life has only existed for what? 64,000 years or so? That's a very small fraction of Earth's lifespan versus the other 4.5 billion years Earth was around. It is not that unlikely for an intellectual creature to come into existence with these variables. Life adapts and evolves to continue living for ages. They grow smarter and learn how to survive. We're just a result of that.
With the amount of possible planets there are out there, I don't see it as too unlikely that there's another planet just like ours, with life. Must they be as intelligent or more intelligent than us? No. Even if there is life out there smarter than us, I do not see it likely that we would ever meet with them. The universe is rapidly expanding, growing faster and faster, thus galaxies are moving further and further away from each other. With how much space there is between celestial bodies in the universe and the fact that we haven't been able to find life on planets we've discovered within the small (yet very large) amount of the universe we've been able to explore, I don't ever see it happening that we'll run into another species like us.
I probably went off-topic a bit in there. I lost my thought train due to something else, so I'll just cut it off here. xd