Is it ironic that SETI has been scanning the vast heavens for decades using design detection methodology to search for intelligent life “somewhere out there”, has yet to discover any intelligent life what so ever; and yet the people who run SETI and like-minded folks have unanimously failed to look inward at our own planet, using a very similar design detection methodology to discover what actually is “somewhere out there”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI
http://intelligentreasoning.blogspot.com/2006/03/yes-design-is-mechanism.html
2007-07-07 08:32:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
At the very heart of this search is their belief (or assumption) in evolution...after all, if evolution happened here on earth then it should have also happened on other 'planets' and their should be other intelligent life that has evolved out there. In their desperate attempt to 'prove' evolution, thousands of dollars and man hours are spent to find that 'other' intelligence. Too bad it will NEVER be found because it DOESN'T exist.
And aside from that point...do we REALLY want to find it? As history has shown...EVERY time that a superior civilization has come into contact with a lesser, the lesser ALWAYS disappears!!
2007-07-08 12:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's just as ironic as the fact that an archaeologist can find a triangular shaped stone that has markings on it that might have been caused by a tool and conclude that it is an arrow head created by primitive man but when the biology of a single cell is revealed it is relegated to random chance.
Dr Michael Denton, a medical doctor and molecular biologist, in seeking to convey the complexity of a single living cell, uses the following illustration in his book Evolution, A Theory in Crisis:
...to grasp the reality as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometres in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity...
2007-07-07 15:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You clearly have not grasped the size of the universe.
If every living person on Earth spent 24 hours a day from now onwards checking one star at a time (assuming no more than one planet per star on average), and they spent just 1 second doing each star, then the task of scanning the universe would take 50,000 years.
2007-07-07 15:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The universe is a big place. Just because we haven't received an answer, or one that we can understand, doesn't mean there won't be an answer. There are plenty of other people and ways to search our planet, SETI ought to keep doing what they are doing.
2007-07-07 15:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Tom L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly. Though, to be honest, I dont think our pitiful human technology will ever find Almighty God if He doesnt want to be found, do you?
God bless
2007-07-07 15:38:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and scanning for nothing while waisting our tax dollars.
2007-07-07 15:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
lol...thats coz there isn't any intelligent life here on earth, us included.:P
2007-07-07 15:35:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
*eats a cheeto*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13NPZ5Nv_fc
Intelligent design is a farce, accept it.
2007-07-07 15:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋