Apart from what your religion tells you, do you believe there is life on other planets?

Question

If there is, how are they judged by God, do you suppose they have some sort of divine guidance?

Answer 1

Yes - in a nearly infinite universe, I find it hard to believe that this is the only speck of dirt that has developed life forms.

If they have developed higher life forms that are capable of abstract thought and complex reasoning, I would imagine that they have also developed religious beliefs to help explain the world around them, just as we have.

Answer 2

Yes. OF some type.

Plus, who is to say God didn't create "new man" elsewhere! Did God give up after the failure with Adam and Eve!

Why else did God leave! Once God was around talking to all sorts of people. There are no more burning bushes.

Maybe God put the Garden of Eden elsewhere and made others in his own image and maybe they didn't eat the apple!

I don't know if any religious people ever considered that possiblity! We are the failure, did God give up or try it all again to see if his creation would do the right thing!

(And, Jesus is not God's only son, in Genesis it says the Son's of God saw the daughters of Adam and Eve and took them as wives, implying God propagates as man does or did, at least. We are made in God's image, thus God must have the same basic form.)

Answer 3

Of course there is. There is a long mathematical equation by a well-known scientist (who's name escapes me right now) that definitely predicts intelligent life on other planets.

I think it would be highly snobbish and ignorant of us to think we're the ONLY planet with life on it. Course, it's possible that the inhabitants of those planets have also developed ridiculous religious notions that they too were made "God's image."

Evolution, which takes on turns and changes according to environmental conditions, would turn out a very different looking intelligent life form. So do they have a different god? Think about that.

Answer 4

The Universe is so immense, that anything is possible. We can only wait and see.

As far as them having divine guidance, if they exist, I'm sure they do. I just hope they have done a better job than humans have at following that guidance.

Answer 5

LOL. One answer said (in part): "There are galaxies out there that haven't even been explored." So... like we have a Space Patrol or comething, and we just haven't gotten around to them yet?

Another answer referred to our "... nearly infinite universe." LOL. There is no such thing as 'nearly infinite'.

Anyway... recent astronomical observations have detected humungous clouds of organic chemicals, tens of millions of light years in size, in the vicinity of 'stellar nurseries'. Current thought speculates about the possibility that simple life forms may actually have originated in space, rather than on a planet. It may be that "When and how did life originate on earth?" may not even be the right question to be asking. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that 'life' rained down upon the earth during the entire time it was being formed. It may be that te proper question to be asking, instead, is: "At what point did the earths cataclysmic upheavals and climate stabilize to the point where life was finally able to take hold?"

The 'Drake Equation' predicts there should be at least 1,000 planets containing intelligent life right here, in our own little galaxy... with at least ONE of them within 1,000 light years of us. It also presicts that there are untold hundreds of billions of planets containing intelligent life within the VISIBLE universe (between 13 and 15 billion light years).

Personally, I think that life is as common as dirt in the universe. Oh... and 'god' doesn't have a damned thing to do with it.

Answer 6

Their might be some fungus and bacteria on a couple of planets out there.

I suspect that life is so rare and so miraculous that the planetary system collapses before intelligent life can develop in virtually all cases.

Lifeforms without sentience do not need the construct of God. Therefore your question appears unanswerable to me.

Answer 7

My religion tells me there is life on other planets.

Which leads to an interesting Christ question: If Jesus is God's only son, and there is intelligent life on other planets who do not have sexual reproduction (making the concept of son irrelevant), did Jesus appear on those planets in a different form?

Answer 8

No, because don't you think we would have found them by now? But then again, I don't believe in evolution either because it is statistically impossible to have all the life forms currently on earth develop (even over millions and billions of years) from the same set of chromosomes (which came from where???) And don't you think we would have more evidence of evolution? By the way, Evolution is a theory not a fact, just as intelligent designer is a theory (although more evidence points to intelligent design (God for you non'believers))

Answer 9

If we are on earth living and breathing then there must be life on other planets. There are galaxies out there that haven't even been explored. We are not the only special beings out there alive.. I'm not sure about the God aspect but you would think it would be similar to human beings.. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist!!!

Answer 10

Yes, there is life on other planets for sure. Maybe like back to the future sort of thing. Maybe is like 2000 BC on other planets....what an experience to go way back.

Answer 11

Even if life had only a one in 100 billion chance of arising on Earth, there are billions of galaxies each with billions of stars so there still ought to be billions of other planets with life out there.

Oh, and gods are imaginary so they're not relevant to the subject.