Would their hostile (assuming it's hostile) environment force them to "mutate" to "adapt" too, like our's is gradually causing us to do so? And would their evolution-process be alot quicker than our's, since their "intelligence" is so much "more advanced" than our's?
Also, would there be any religious aliens found on this planet of their's?
I won't accept any irrelevant answers like, "Since aliens don't exist, then blah blah blah...". The scenario here is that they "do".
2007-02-16 14:39:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
johnocreagh: If my question is too complex for you, then just say so. You're not answering on the account of a couple apostrophe-typos?
2007-02-16 14:58:05 · update #1
Actually, what we don't know is that aliens are what our early people thought were angels and gods...they have been part of our development all along. Who is to say that the things in the Bible were untrue...we just called by what we knew back then. If you see an advanced life form, or superior life form, you might fear or come to worship that life form as a god, or false god....
OK...I was joking with you...I can't answer your question because I am not an atheist.
2007-02-16 17:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jalapinomex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they have a method for encoding the information of life in a format that is transcribed imperfectly, then there will likely be evolution on their planet.
The speed of evolution, however, is determined by just how different the population is from the most ideal of that population for its environment. It is possible evolution would run faster or slower for their particular species based on their environment.
However, if they started a billion years before us (after all, the earth is 4.5 billion years old and the universe 13.5 billion, meaning they could have had up to 9 billion years head start [okay, more like 5 billion due to various astronomic details]), they could have evolved slower and still be immeasurably beyond us technologically.
2007-02-16 14:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would assume that by the law of averages alien life exists (or DID exist) somewhere in the universe at some point in time. To say that they are more or less advanced than us would be pure speculation. Like fire flies in a night sky, civilizations have probably been twinkling off and on for eternity.
2007-02-16 14:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why are you assuming that alien life is more intelligent?
I think in a Universe as large as our's, there is probably life in another area. Considering that we have no idea what that environment would be like, I don't think we have anyway of knowing how life came to be.
I do think there is life....but it might be no more complex then just a single celled organism.
Given the distances involved, I don't think we'll ever find it, and I don't think it will find us.
2007-02-16 14:45:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would wager they do, with hundred of billions of galaxies with hundreds of billions of planets, but that is neither here nor there.
What you are calling hostile is the perfect environment for them. We have found organisms that can live in boiling water, solid rock, and even those that live of off radiation. What is perfect for you is poison to something living in what you consider a hostile environment.
Evolution rates have nothing to do with intelligence except maybe slowing it down. Instead of growing fur up in Canada they build houses. That is just my theory though. Nothing guarantees alien life forms to be intelligent, they just have to be alive.
2007-02-16 14:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Note to all: Perhaps I should have specified. By "alien life", I mean the UFO-flying type. But yes, I too agree that maybe non-fictional alien life exists on other planets.
2007-02-16 15:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by Loathe thy neighbor. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much have to assume that for life to exist in a climate, then it has to adapt to it's changes in order to survive...which drives evolution.
2007-02-16 14:51:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are not evolving any more because the enviroment is what causes changes and we have took that part out it is now up to us through genetic engineering to finish the job, this is why they have so many differant species of birds due to there ability to migrate into differant enviroments
2007-02-16 14:55:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
If you're Christian, you won't believe that aliens exist because God created the Universe for humans only.
2007-02-16 14:42:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I will answer your question only after you have learned the proper use of the apostrophe.
2007-02-16 14:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋