I am not asking about the other planets on the solar system becuase we know. I want to know about the incountable number of plantets that we can not even see
Point to think about. There are more stars than anyone can ever count. Around some of these stars have to be planets so that makes the number of plantes also incountable. So do you think that it is possible that becuase there are so many planets out there that conditions could be right on another planet to allow life and even inteligent life to form and evolve
I am asking this in the religion section becuase I want to see how your religion effects your answer. Please state your belief and why you believe it, Wheather you believe it becuase of your religion or becuase you look at it scientifically
2007-01-18 04:50:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, and I'm not so sure about this planet either.
2007-01-18 04:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theoretically it would be impossible for life NOT to exist on another planet simply because of the vast number of stars that can support planets...not every star is the center of a solar system but of the ones that are it is impossible to imagine that life doesn't exist somewhere else...it may be life in a very simple form, I don't think that there is an Earth Mark 2 so to say, where there is another race of humans like us, but there has to be a species that inhabits another planet...it could be an organism that breathes methane or hydrogen...the fact that many planets have seas hidden by massive ice caps leads scientists to believe that there could be conditions on some planets similar to Earth before life crawled out of the primordial soup...you really should post this in the science section also to get a wider array of responses...
2007-01-18 05:05:16 · answer #2 · answered by techteach03 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Statistically I think it would be quite unlikely for this to be the only planet with life.
As for intelligent life, keep in mind that Earth has only had what could be considered intelligent life for a very small percentage of its history. So at this specific point in time, even if there were a hundred other planets with life, it is unlikely any would have intelligent life.
I'm an atheist, but I don't imagine that had much to do with my answer.
2007-01-18 05:06:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be terribly arrogant to believe that our earth~and the collective 'we'~ are so special that we would exist alone in this universe. As you stated, there are so many planets out there it almost begs for life to be on another one. Intelligent life? Who can say? But even a planet that would be home to nothing more than bacteria would be harboring life, so it stands to reason that in time, a more intelligent form of life could evolve if conditions are right.
Christian to atheist to believer, I have no religion.
2007-01-18 04:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's ridiculous to expect there ISN'T intelligent life on other planets. Okay, granted, the odds that life will spontaneously begin the way ours did are astronomical - something like 3 billion to 1.
However. The Universe is endless (a concept that is nearly impossible to actually get a finite human brain to understand), so if there are 9 billion other planets similar to earth out there, that means the odds are that 3 of them contain intelligent life.
That's my two cents anyway.
)O(
2007-01-18 05:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, we don't know for sure that there is no life on any other planets in our solar system.
Aside from that, we have no way of knowing whether there is life on any other planets in the entire universe. Given the abundance of planets out there, though, I would find it difficult to believe we are the only ones.
2007-01-18 04:55:59 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that intelligent life on other planets is a reasonable assumption. Do I believe that there IS that life? It's hard to say since we have no direct evidence of it. Given the number of stars and the continual discovery of planets around them my guess is yes.
2007-01-18 04:57:30 · answer #7 · answered by Murazor 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A science prof once told me that there were more galaxies out there than there is grains of sand on every beach in the world. To think we are the only life form in the universe to me seems very egotistical and narcissistic, not to mention naive. Then take into account all the sitings, Roswell, ancient myths and phenomena, and tell me we are all that is. I just don't buy it.
2007-01-18 04:56:27 · answer #8 · answered by Let Love Be 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an Eckist. My religion is Eckankar, the religion of the light and sound of GOD. We are soul travelers. If you can leave your body at will and visit to some planets you can prove it to yourself the reality of their existence. Yes, there are other intelligent life forms on other planets. In fact, you can find some in Venus.
If you want to know how to leave your body (soul travel) and prove it to yourself, you can learn from :
http://www.eckankar.org/index.html
2007-01-18 07:27:50 · answer #9 · answered by rajkath 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think there is. Simply because the odds of us being the ONLY intelligent life out of billions and billions of planets are ridiculous.
And I'm an atheist.
2007-01-18 04:54:27 · answer #10 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think life does exist for two reasons:
1) isn't it a bit vain to really believe that we are the only creatures here in this HUGE universe??
2) In my religion God mentioned that he had created things that we do not know of. ..
2007-01-18 06:39:14 · answer #11 · answered by Razan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋