Does there really HAVE to be other intelligent beings out there?

Question

I know that a lot of creationist use the argument when arguing for the existant of God that the chance of a universe coming into exsistance and that planet would be able to support life, without some kind of creator, is rediculously small. Not like 1 in a million small. Like infintesimly small. Now this thread isnt about God so I dont want to here people belief systems. My question is if the chances that a place like earth coming into existance are so small than arent the chances that say ten other planets able to support intelligent life somewhere in our vast universe like a million time less likely. My point is every is convinced that aliens are out there, but when you think about does there really have to be intelligent life out there?

Answer 1

Why not. The chances that there is at least one Earth like planet with inteligent life is very great considering all the galaxies and a nearly endless universe.
If there is a creator why couldn't he make life on mutiple planets instead of just one. To me it seems a waste to make all the universe for just one planet that will have any intelligent life.

Answer 2

No. It is possible that we are indeed accidents and this is the only place where this enormously complex set of happenstances worked to the current fruition. The odds of everything working out as it did on its own are truly enormous--but so is the expanse of the universe. The possibility of all of this happening again, even if not identicle but to substantially similar ends (resulting in intelligent life), when compared to the enormous number of places where it might happen also results in a large number. Now, figure in time, with the added dimension of a couple dozen billion years and that our existence is such an infintesimally small blip in the galactic calendar, not only might this appearance of intelligent life happened many times but it may have already flashed and gone an enormous number of times. Then comes the possibility of locating a civilization in the same technological window of existence as we now are over those incredible distances. If we spent years watching in the exact right spot and have already missed their century of radio and television-type communication, then we will have never known.

If such a civilization is on a planet in the Andromeda galaxy right now, and right now they flashed an intense laser beam and happened to aim it just right so that it happens to intersect with earth at some future time. That beam won't get here for over a million years. If, instead, there was a civilization that existed a million years ago and that scenario happened, but the beam got here a couple hundred years ago, who would have known? But what if they only sent the beam for a few hours and we just happen to be on the other side of the sun when it arrives in the solar system?

Again, there doesn't HAVE to be any others, but even if the universe had millions of them over its existence, the odds are enormously great that we will not be able to detect it or if we did they are likely long gone by now. Lucas' premise was indeed plausible, "long ago, in a galaxy far away."

Answer 3

I think we would be lucky to find anything beyond microbial life forms. Earth is a very strange place. We not only have life here, we have it in so many different ways that we are still discovering new life forms here all the time to this day. When you look at the complexity of a DNA molecule and then look at the complexity of the amino acids and proteins that they supposedly originated from you will see that it takes more than a giant leap to get to the DNA molecule. Now considering intelligent life like humans for example, all you have to do is look at all the other species and varieties of animals and plants, etc. living here and then consider how much more advanced humans are than that and realize that even if you found a planet somewhere that had life, you also must consider the different levels of intelligence. There are way too many hoops to jump through to get to something like human beings. In order to find something that we would consider intelligent on another planet, I believe we would have to find a planet with a completely diverse set of life forms. I don't think it would be possible to find a top of the food chain contender without also finding the food chain itself. I think they should forget about finding intelligent life like humans. I think they should consider the odds of finding a planet with the diversity we have here and realise that is what is required to have such a thing as intelligent life in the first place.

Answer 4

Nothing in this universe HAS to be anything. Earth itself doesn't even HAVE to hold life. However, saying that there is not life on other planets is like people still insisting that the Earth is flat. It's almost unimaginable that in all the vastness of the universe there is no other life out there. That's virtually impossible.

Answer 5

We are already here. Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species and your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.

Answer 6

GOOD QUESTION! No, there does not... HOWEVER, despite the unique situation (almost "ideal," for us) that we humans enjoy, the scientific community is simply going from probabilities, despite the fact that so many things need to "fall into place" in a solar system's formation, all that is accounted for amoungst the countless star systems "out there." While we could conceivably be the only "fluke" of creation "out there," the argument has been made that a "creator" would not be likely to put all His/Her eggs in one basket... still, the possibility exists unless undeniable "contact" is verified.

Answer 7

There doesn't HAVE to be, but statistically, there's a decent chance of it. With billions of stars, the chance of planets having life-supporting conditions is good, so the chance of something else evolving is also pretty good. They could have developed and became extinct a billion years ago, or may still be protein molecules forming into DNA. I doubt we'll know in our lifetime unless they fly up to us and introduce themselves.

Answer 8

No there really does not have to be but I think a lot of people these days are open minded about other possibilitys .You kind of have to be when you realize nobody has all the answers so there must be some thing out there that we dont know to exsplain for stuff.

Answer 9

I agree totally with you, there had too of been a creator. It's logical!. Do you know what though? I think GOD Created the universe just for us, because he loves us.! Nobody but us.
God doesn't mention any other beings in the bible.

Answer 10

It's just soooo arrogant to think that with all the billions of planets out there, we would be the *only* ones with intelligent life. How could that be possible?