Atheists, Do you believe in the possiblity of aliens?

Answer 1

Fuels!

She directed it separately to Atheists and Christians!

I see her logic.

If you GUYS don't believe in SKY DADDY or SANTA CLAUS, what's your views on ET.

It's a very logically oriented question to see if there is any common denominator between Theist and Atheist.

I found it quite interesting. You have NO POTENTIAL belief in a GOD but a POTENTIAL belief in an ET.

Neither have any proofs. Neither have ever been seen on a credible level. ET certainly has a lot of crazies behind it with the Lone Gunmen and all those NEw Mexico people and Area 51.

But you give it potential, but you don't give the same potential to God.

You don't say, I personally don't beleive in a God, but who knows there might be one out there!

I found this question quite interesting that the LOGICALLY BASED atheist community gives crediblity to ET in a vast majority.

So you do believe in the potential for something greater to exist in the Universe and if they come here in ships they are greater than are we!

In short, you do believe there might be a GOD you just don't worship or bow down.

I mean, God's an ET!

Answer 2

Does being atheist have some bearing on a belief in extraterrestrial life?

I don't know if aliens exist, and really for the most part I'm not concerned with it. Perhaps they do, cool! Maybe they don't, still cool! I have absolutely no information or knowledge on which to form a basis for believing in aliens, so for now, I will just be undecided.

Answer 3

Sure, lots of people live and work illegally in other countries right now.


If you mean "Is there intelligent life on other planets?", then the answer is _possibly_ though there is no evidence of it.

If you mean "Has intelligent life from other planets ever visited the Earth?", then the answer is a resounding _NO_.

1) There would have to be intelligent life on other planets, not just life.

2) They would need the intelligence required to detect planets.

3) They would need the intelligence required for distant space travel.

4) They would have to detect our existence. Our first weak man-made radio waves left the Earth only 100 years ago. For any species to hear us would require they be within 50 light years of us OR they gambled they we might have life and they left early. What species would take that risk? There are no life-sustainable planets within 50 light years of Earth, so no one as of yet has been capable of hearing us.

The chances of anyone hearing and coming to Earth before now is _zero_, and the chance of anyone within 100 light years coming to see us by 2100 is less than 1/10^100000000000000000000000000 or worse. And that's assuming there is anyone capable of hearing us AND capable of visiting us.

The voyager spacecraft is a message in a bottle floating in an ocean bigger than a trillion suns in surface area. We ARE alone and always will be, even if there is somebody else out there.


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Answer 4

Personally yes, but the two ideas or beliefs are not related. I believe in the possiblility of aliens, but not the possiblility of a creator. I have come to the decision on balance of probabilities. Is is massively probable that our planet is not the only planet in the universe to support life, therefore I reckon it is probable that there are aliens, however there is a vanishingly small probability that there is a divine creator, so I do not believe in god on that basis. I have heard this argument many times but it really does come down to what is probable...there is not equal probability for all events, as observation supports probability. So while I believe in aliens in general, I do not believe (for example) that there are any aliens on the moon, as evidence does not support this hypothesis. Equally my atheism comes from the complete lack of evidence of a supposed god's existence, making the probability of it very small. Hope this makes some kind of sense!

Answer 5

Life exists on earth. There is almost no reason to suspect that this is the only place in the billions upon billions of other solar systems in the universe where life developed.

However, the environmental pressures to create intelligence at our level only happened once in the 4 billion years life has existed on this planet. And we've only had language for about 8000 of those years. So while life may exist other places, the chances of intelligent life are much lower.

Once you add in the physics of interstellar travel, the difficulty in finding other planets that may be populated, the fact that we have only been sending out radio - electrical signals for about 100 years (which could signal our presence), the likelihood of a visit from another civilization drops precipitously.

So while I believe life is probable, intelligent life is less probable, and intelligent life that is close enough to visit and has or soon will find us even less probable.

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Answer 6

Yes. I believe the probability of alien life is significantly greater than the possibility of any god's existence.

One misconception is that aliens are little green men flying around in spaceships. It's entirely possible that they are in a neanderthal stage, and have yet to discover fire or invent the wheel (so to speak). It's also possible that their civilization is so dramatically advanced from our own, that they have no use for us whatsoever, not even curiosity.

Answer 7

Atheist only means you hold no belief in a deity. There are no other requirements.

Perhaps a much larger percentage of atheists don't believe in aliens actually visiting us, simply because they are more likely to have a stronger criteria for what they accept as truth, but this is simply a likelihood, not a characteristic of atheists.

Personally, I don't believe we are being visited. I do think there is a strong likelihood we are not alone in the universe.

Answer 8

Yes it's a *possibility*, but it's intuitive. There is no evidence whatsoever, but the size of the universe makes it improbable (though possible) that Earth is the only planet on which life has evolved. I think the same thing (the size of the universe) makes it infinitely unlikely that any two intelligent lifeforms from different are ever likely to meet.

Answer 9

We have one example of life in the universe (Earth) and no persuasive reason to believe that we are unique, so it's reasonable to suppose there is a possibility of alien life. We don't yet have enough information to quantify that possibility.

Answer 10

Yes. The possibility of gods and the possibility of alien life forms are different. We can calculate the probability of the existence of life given certain conditions and if we suspect it we can measure and record it. We cannot do the same for gods and they, supposedly, exist on our Earth.