Wow! What an incredible anticipation!
We here on Earth will be caught off guard because NASA will find life on Mars within the next 2 years!
We will not be able to handle this truth!
Dr Jim Green has warned that two rovers from Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) could find evidence of life within months of arriving on Mars in March 2021.
When -- or if -- NASA finds life on Mars, the world may not be ready for the discovery, the agency chief says - CNN
(CNN)NASA's next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life -- or there is life -- on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an extraterrestrial concept?
NASA chief scientist Jim Green doesn't think so.
"It will be revolutionary," Green told the Telegraph. "It will start a whole new line of thinking. I don't think we're prepared for the results. We're not."
I can only laugh at this poor highly educated fool!
he makes it out as iff everyone here on Earth will somehow realize that we all will need to get some psycho therapy IF NASA finds evidence of life!
What does this guy imply?
That perhaps all the people on Earth who ever believed in a Creator will now somehow go in depression and commit suicide?
I remember how old Gilbert Levin claimed that he discovered life on Mars in 1976 when NASA sent the Viking Rovers there. Test after test proved that there was a glitch and error in the initial test, and all scientists up untill today know that Levin did not discover life.
This old foolish man just never could accept the truth, and went on, and on, and on about his "Evidence".
Now we have a new Jester in the court!
Jim Green.
And he is so sure that he determines we will find life in the next 2 years!!!!
My question is:
If 2 years pass, will Jim Green be able to handle the truth?
perhaps the whole scientific comunity will have too book appointments with their therapists 2 years from now, else they will turn into little Gilbert Levin's!
Even when one has the worlds best education and experience, you still need to gain wisdom.
I would like to know if there are others out here that also noticed this silly scientific claims being spread around and what does it mean to you?
I am a religious person -believe biblical scripture (but that it does not describe anything like a young Earth/universe) -and believe it quite possible that there are forms of life all over the universe.
God is not only credited with creating life on Earth, but with the entire creation -which means the elements would have been produced with the intent of forming life and its environments. Under the right circumstances, those elements essentially self-assemble, self-replicate, etc. -and those circumstances could have required God's decision after the initiation of the universe -or have been built into the creation from the beginning -which would mean that (as the universe is generally similar all over) the same general processes would repeat in many places (though may also be subject to tweaking at any time -as our activities are evidence).
DNA-based evolution alone is an excellent way of producing unimaginable varieties of life without needing to micro-manage everything.
However, it is problematic for man -because we are not simply subject to it -and we do not particularly like it (because we are able to not like it -whereas other life forms can not even consider it).
We already think beyond simply being subject to evolution -and we have begun to make evolution subject to us -even beginning to self-evolve.
We differ from other life forms on Earth in that our mental ability and imagination are not simply sufficient for being what we are.
One way or another, we are thinking and moving toward being much different -both in our ability to create external tools, and to essentially internalize improved tools in the form of an improved body -which allow for our environment to become more subject to us -and ourselves less subject to it.
The universe is generally in "bondage to decay" -which doesn't bother most life forms -because it can't. They die as individuals (which allows for adaptation, etc.), and their entire local environment is subject to destruction by somewhat-chaotic natural forces -about which they can think and do bupkis. Some do not even have the mechanisms which would allow them to suffer as they were made extinct. However, we are able to think of things such as extending life, eternal life, terraforming, deflecting celestial bodies on a collision course with our local environment, affecting weather cycles, protecting the future of ourselves and other life forms, etc. We even think -and take steps -toward ending death and suffering for those which do suffer.
Finding life on Mars would mean that there might be amazing life forms on many planets -in many environments -but we would not likely get to see any of them as individuals if we are also simply subject to evolution -or even if later generations self-evolve to immortality and conquer interstellar space travel.
It is actually more exciting for me because biblical scripture already says that we are to be given "glorious" eternal bodies which are not bound to this local environment, will allow for great power over even cosmic forces and events -to be used throughout "the heavens" which "were formed to be inhabited". Finding unimaginably varied life forms everywhere may be part of the "glory" which awaits -but we may also create and manage environments and life forms elsewhere.
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy
to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected
the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
"Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."