Whether you believe God or the big bang theory, I want to hear opinions on if you think there have to be other planets exactly like ours out there with some form of life on it. I heard there are so many galaxies that we don't even know of and millions of planets we don't know about.
2006-12-22 02:08:53 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What makes you think that there is only one planet for life?
Do you think that because it is the only one we know about yet?
Think, please, in the time that extends from the very beginning, to now - some four billion years scientists say - how long has man been in a truly scientific age like today? Only ten years or so, right? And for all the rest of the time since the beginning, that is 4 Billion Years minus 10 Years = 3,999,999,990 Years - man either was not even developed yet, or so primitive as to be non- comprehending relative to the universe as a whole, and totally ignorant of space travel, lunar landings, space shuttles, etc...
If there are 1000 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy (our galaxy) and each star has from 0 to 10 (or more) planets, why wouldn't there be at least one - maybe more - that has the right ingredients for life similar to ours? There might be several.
The trick is ..... At what stage in the development of life is that possible sister planet? Go back and look at those numbers again...Estimated 4 Billion years old (Earth), but only say in the last ten years - truly space informed and educated... Just an eye blink in time. Maybe our sister planet is a good bit of time away from that eye blink moment of its own.
2006-12-22 14:42:57 · answer #1 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To fulfill God's purposes there only has no be one planet with life. Mankind is created and at the right time in history a redemption for them is provided thur Jesus coming to Earth and more time is given to spread that message till an exact amount of people wanted to populate heaven is achieved. Do we really need other beings on other planets which would probably just be another sinful filled place in need of redemption as well? Merry Christmas anyhow!
2006-12-22 16:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by Ernesto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
again a question of probability and that for the same form of life and planet (exactly i think you said) is so low its essentially NO. Even humanoid life elsewhere is essentially NO
{{Pity as i always liked star treck. guess it was just human actors in suits then}}
Another planet with "life as we know it" in general terms....maybe although low not that low a probability that it can be dismissed per se
Another planet with life as in some form of self replicating chemical unit, possibleand perhaps likely but unknown
That we are special..dream on. Nope
God? .make your own mind up, each to their own opinion and belief here and we all have ours and thats fine.
BTW, this is the season for celebrating the allegedly only known parthenogenetic birth in humans (where did that Y chromosome come from?). Shame it was male and thus an instead dead end.
2006-12-22 02:19:25 · answer #3 · answered by symbiont 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are in one teensie tiny area of the universe that has made it - how far out of our solar system? How do we know there isn't life on other planets. There are many articles online by reputable sources that there is a possibility.
When you think about it, how old is our earth? just because there might not be contact with any now (and who says there isn't that we don't know about) this doesn't mean that there wasn't in times past. Some even think that there was help in building the pyramids
2006-12-22 02:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by starsk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created planets for everyone. He thought life would flow through them, like a river. But that was not true. Our planet was the first one to have life. And we were here. But after that when other planet were about to evolve life, our way of thinking (using science) completely destroyed god's opinions and god himself. Since god was very mad at us, he destroyed the life in other planets and let us live here alone..suffering to find another planet with life. Bt i surely know that god still has a little love for us, and is making another planet wiht life, which is very far from us...
2006-12-22 03:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by AD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In response to the main question I can only say, who are we to question God?
In response the the additional stuff about so many galaxies, yes, in all that you would think there would be at least some planets very much like Earth. I would be extremely surprised if there were not. But we have not seen any yet. Maybe when our telescopes get better, or when our space craft get better, we will be able to find one.
2006-12-22 02:25:04 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God and the Big Bang are not, a priori, mutually exclusive.
To present the situation as such is an artificial strawman argument typical of the inteelectual dishonesty of rigid fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible. Theologically, if one believes that God is all-knowing and all-Powerful, then one must also believe that God is capable of being the author of the Big Bang.
2006-12-22 02:29:43 · answer #7 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Big Bang theory and I'm almost shore that life existed exists and will exist on other planets like it does here, on Earth!
2006-12-22 03:52:43 · answer #8 · answered by xXx - Twisted Whispers - xXx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my theories is that god was like a scientist. Each of the planets was a test tube with different conditions like temperature and terrain because of their distance from the lamp(sun). He may have dropped some life matter into each one and we were the one that grew the fastest, while others grew slower. An example would be the bacterial samples they found on mars. Anyway it is just a theory.
2006-12-22 02:20:11 · answer #9 · answered by jerryjames619 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He made a huge universe to demonstrate his greatness and he created one planet with intelligent life (and only one species that can commune with God) because we're special and that's the way he wanted it.
2006-12-22 02:17:59 · answer #10 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋