JRMcC
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You should all have a look at this if you haven't already.
You should all have a look at this if you haven't already.
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Sure as heck seems that way. If beauty is your explanation for the need for a designer, you are way off.Just the product of random chance? Psalm 14:1
Why?Just due to the sheer size of the universe there's bound to be countless other intelligent life.
could be reasonable too because after all, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction."I tend to doubt it"
Again, why?I would say two things:
1. If life came about here by chance there must be other life in the universe.
Why?
For the record: I'm a Jew with a mild preference for Stephen Jay Gould. But let's move on …It's just a matter of probability.
Edit: I'd imagine Judaism has an answer to this question that doesn't line up with Richard Dawkins-like thinking. Is that where you're coming from?
"the extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible" So if life was created by chance: There are certain conditions necessary for life to form on its own, and they were met early in Earth's history. So we know there's at least one case of this happening, and that the number of possible cases are beyond comprehension. So it seems that there must be other basic life.Can you give me a definition of probability that renders extra-terrestrial intelligence more likely?
We're an extremely average planet, orbiting an extremely average star, in an extremely average solar system, in an extremely average portion of the Milky Way Galaxy.For the record: I'm a Jew with a mild preference for Stephen Jay Gould. But let's move on …
Can you give me a definition of probability that renders extra-terrestrial intelligence more likely?
I suspect that many view intelligent life as exactly that, inevitable, rather than the unintended consequence of an unimaginably large number of interactions. Here is a bit more useful reading.It may not be exactly inevitable, but I would be far, far, far more concerned if we are the only life in the universe rather than just one of many.