Do you believe in Aliens? Do you believe in proof?

Question

Statistical analysis has proved that they do not exist. This has been PROVED mathematically.

To put this into context, Mathematicians, Astonomers & Physicists
Statistically proved that Uranus and the outer planets exists decades before they were discovered physically. They saw gravitational affects on known astral bodies and could deduce something else was there.

Mathematics proved electrons and atom existence before any one could qualify this..

In short, they know their stuff....but do you care...is believing in Aliens as much a matter of faith as any other belief system?

Faith, to me, is a largely romantic and symbolic notion (in an old fashioned sense) in which case ...does proof actually matter?

haha, got the answers I was looking for..lots of pissed off mathematicians who don't read enough...this was a question of faith not proof!

...BTW...the Drake equation was based on 60s assumptions before DNA analysis shows the astronomically tiny probability of life starting...

There could be 500 billion more stars in the universe and the Drake equation would still be too simplistic...and the probability of life would still be so small that Zero is the answer!

Answer 1

Your longwinded question is offensive to myself and other natives of Alpha Centauri who came to this planet to meet hot babes.Remember we are not here to talk but to pump you up.

Answer 2

Since you're interested in faith and not proof, I go back to my original posting. Consider the vastness of the universe -- which is the more plausible position in which to repose faith, the proposition that we are alone in the virtually illimitable cosmos, or that we are not alone. You're right about Drake -- it can be interpreted as conservative. But so what, even if there is only one other planet sustaining intelligent life -- that's still extra-terrestrial life, isn't it? So I repeat my question. Which is the more plausible position, alone, or not alone?

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Ichi, you ask an interesting question. Let me give you David Hume's answer. In the Discourses, Hume, (one of the fathers of Empiricism, and a doubter's doubter, especially about religion) said that the greatest proof one could offer for a proposed fact is that the opposite conclusion was more fantastic than the fact one wished to establish.

If we employ that reasoning, we're left with one of two possible conclusions: Either we are the only intelligent life in the universe, or we are not. Given the size of the known universe -- the countless numbers of galaxies and stars -- which of those conclusions is the more fantastic, that we are alone, or that we are not alone?

In my opinion, the idea that intelligent life evolved on this planet alone is a preposterously fantastic notion. By any standards of probablity, we can't be alone; there has to be intelligent life somewhere out there.

Answer 3

Well, I cannot deny the evidence of my senses. I have seen and (interacted with) been abducted by alien beings. I have several conscious memories, only lasting a second or two each, of encounters that span decades. One day I will visit a hypno-therapist to recover what is hidden in my memory. Proof that is accessible to the likes of me, does not exist. Proof that is secret and hidden does exist. This is a matter of faith to me. I have not seen or been invovled with any such proof, as far as I am aware. I believe, without any evidence, that several governement have knowledge and physical evidence of these beings and their activities. But, this is just faith. I know what I have seen, a conversation that I was awake and conscious for, and a being I even saw in broad daylight riding in a red convertible. I have no need to prove it to you or anyone else, it is just a matter of personal importance.

Who is to say that they did not originate from Earth? I also believe, without proof, that they live inside of the Earth in deep caverns and spaces at cracks between continental shelves. They evolved on Antartica and any proof of their existance as surface dwellers exists beneath the polar ice. Antartica wasn't always a polar continent. Over the millions of years of it drifting that way, they beings there became adapted to dark and cold. This was good 'pre-adaptation' to living in the preassures, cold, and darkness of the Deep. Crazy enough to be true yet?

Answer 4

It is possible that the ability to deduce some things is not available at this time. And besides, the conditions for life are not so outrageous. Given favorable conditions, and just how much there is in the universe could mean that, if it happened once, it can happen again, and the universe is just so vast, we could look forever, and still never find any proof of it, which it mos certainly happened.

Answer 5

I disagree. The Drake equation has proved that they exist. The universe is enormous. The distances between stars are hard to fathom. Aliens doesn't mean intelligent life. In fact, more than likely life exists in our own solar system outside of earth on the moon of Europa according to scientists.

Answer 6

I put no stock in that science. There are billions of planets in our universe, to think only Earth could harbor life is nonsense. Why do people think that life has to exist only as we know it? Life could be somewhere else comprised of something other than carbon, and water. Life on another planet may be made up of helium, and nitrogen. I dont believe in little gray men, but I believe that other life may, and most likely does exist.

Answer 7

I think you've received an anal prob. I may be wrong, but it's still hilarious. :P I see why you want to disprove their existance. You don't want anyone to findout what they did to you.

Do you honestly believe everything scientists tell you? They said that we'd all be living in houses under the sea or flying hover cars to work. They had statistics then too I bet. Let me see the data sets. What was the margin of error? I'm not a scientist, but I know better than to believe everything I'm told.

Answer 8

And let's see, have the statistics and scientists ever been proven wrong before? Duh - like only a million times. In short - they often don't know their stuff and often choose to ignore anything they choose not to understand. Sure there can be aliens. People see proof of them alll the time. Actually much more proof than there is for any religious "facts". So don't be so closed minded or you might not recognize the next alien who knocks on your door.

Answer 9

"Statistical analysis has proved that they do not exist. This has been PROVED mathematically."

Sounds like Christian propaganda to me.

Math would prove that chances are they do exist. The chances of other life forms not existing in the vastness of the universe approaches zero.

I believe that aliens exist. Do i believe they have ever visited Earth? No. Can i prove to you that aliens exist? No.

Answer 10

yh i am sure there are. allthough some ppl have a high level of mathematics there is alot of still which needs to be discovered. i think the area 51 base and nasa are keeping things quite. u just have to ask urself, in the massive universe do u really think we are alone ? science cannot prove everything.

Answer 11

Simple answer to an age old question - we are not alone - humanity has to accept that in this massive universe we cant be the only ones, when the time comes everything will be revealed.