Alone in the universe

Alone in the universe?

One hundred octillion (100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), give or take a couple thousand septillion, is our best guess at how many stars there are in the Universe. Multiply this number by the average number of planets orbiting these stars and there are very few calculators in the world that would not gag on the number.

With so many planets out there in the universe, it would seem silly to me to believe that this is the only planet where life would take hold. It also seems equally silly to think that God, the creator of all these stars and planets (as so many like myself believe), would only put life on this one relatively tiny little rock floating in space.

My point: I do not believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe. I also do not believe we are the oldest or most advanced. Actually I believe that we are nowhere near to being the oldest and most advanced. We haven�t even traveled past our own moon� oh sure, our probes have�. Yes, we have done some experiments in space, we�ve walked on the moon�. did experiments there too. We�ve done experiments on Mars� remotely anyhow. We�ve done a little exploring� but I think there�s still just a bit more out there to see.

I do not believe it is all that much of a stretch to suppose that if there is other intelligent life out there that they too may be explorers, scientists, engineers�. creators.

There are some who balk at the theory of �intelligent design.� But given the amazing things our underdeveloped minds have been able to conceive of in our short time in the universe; combined with what other, more advanced life forms, might have achieved� I believe that the concept of intelligent design is very plausible. Indeed, I would be quite shocked if it isn�t happening somewhere in this universe.

For the record, I do not believe we were engineered by little green men from another galaxy (purple maybe J)� But, I do believe that there is a God and that he is far, far more advanced than we are; and that he indeed is the intelligence behind our existence.

My money is on:

5. Interstellar travel is not practical.  My back-of the-envelope calculations say that even if there were a million habitable planets in our own Milky Way galaxy, the average distance between them would be something like 3000 light-years.  If we could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would take you 3000 years at light speed to get to the nearest habitable planet.

In practice, we could probably only manage a few percent of light speed, and even that would take an enormous amount of energy and would mean hundreds of thousands of years of travel time.  That's quite a commute.

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_the simplest protein (about 150 aminate acids) cannot appear somewhere by itself (in the right place, in the right order of aminate acids)
_it would be worthless alone, and would quickly be destroyed by the environement.
_DNA (describing perfectly that 150 aminate acids protein) would not exist without proteins to take care of it, it would also be destroyed by the environement if it came into existance.

Once you see this, you see there is a God.
There would be no need for other existing life to search for, as God can create us alone, or fill the universe with life and technology to a frightening point.
i think it is enough to know that under God everything is possible, as logic itself is He's creation.

Also.
What proves to you that other people actually exist (meaning they "know" they exist), you have absolutely no proof that anything else really exists as you could speculatively be a very clever mind with a lot of imagination trapped in its own dream (but with short conscient memory).

The only being that prooves everything else is God.
I exist (i have proof of that)
My environement exists (there exists something that is not me)
So God exists (at least One being who knows he exists and who is responsible for my existence and my environement)

i'm french, so my english may be bizarre sometimes

Ron Webb wrote: biggerjohn wrote: There are some who balk at the theory of �intelligent design.� But given the amazing things our underdeveloped minds have been able to conceive of in our short time in the universe; combined with what other, more advanced life forms, might have achieved� I believe that the concept of intelligent design is very plausible. Indeed, I would be quite shocked if it isn�t happening somewhere in this universe. I'm not sure what intelligent design has to do with this.  If anything, the assumption of an intelligent designer would make it more likely that we are alone.  After all, why design something more than once? It's only because I believe that life arises spontaneously somehow (under conditions and/or by some process we can't currently imagine) that it makes sense to me that it would be happening all over the universe.

Try this video. I call the oil drops alive by my definition of life;

http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_hanczyc_the_line_between_life_and_not_life?language=en