Do you think is is ignorant to believe that threre is no there is no other life out there?

Question

I do believe in God and I am a Christian. I just think it is arrogant to believe that there is no other life but us. Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe God has created life on other planets and just chose not to say it in the Bible. I mean the Bible does not tell us everything. Maybe God just chose not to let us know. There r billions of different gallaxies, what r the chances that we r the one and only life God has created? Maybe He has other "earths" He created, and they have their own Bible too. I think is is so arrogant to belive that we are so superior that there is no other life God has chosen to be is His image but us. I am not saying they are other above us, but equals. Just kinda like our neighbors,...

Plz dont get into a big debate about this, I would just like to hear other ppl's ideas and views.

One resons why I am asking is why would God create so many different gallaxies for no reason? If we were the only ones ment to have life what would be the reson for all the billions of others?

Answer 1

I think it's naive to think earth is the only populated planet, yes. There's a whole universe we've barely begun to explore. In this world, there's so many things we can't see, yet they do exist, like bacteria, for instance. Not being able to see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I'm not a Christian, nor do I follow any particular religion but I do believe in some kind of higher power- a higher power which is involved in all aspects of existence, from the microscopic to the cosmic.

There has to be life on other planets, and it's a matter of time before we're all made aware of it. Not to mention that with so many testimonies of encounters with UFOs and aliens, etc., we'd be a little narrow minded to outright refuse to examine the possibility that they might be telling the truth . . . according to their understanding, that is. I've seen a UFO so can't say they don't exist. I guess the question would be, what was it? I don't know.

Anyhow, keeping an open mind seems like a great idea to me. ;)

Answer 2

A big reason why I'm agnostic and not an atheist (I'm a former Christian) is:

1. While you cannot prove there is a god or gods, you cannot disprove it either. Same with life "out there"... you never know!

2. I've had too many weird experiences to think that there isn't something supernatural (out of body experiences, etc.)

I definitely think there could be life elsewhere... it's more of a probability than just a mere possibility considering the vastness of space. I think if there were aliens, I'm sure they'd have their own version of religions too. Not Christianity, of course, but other kinds of explanations for the concept of a god or the supernatural.

Answer 3

Ignorant? Lacking in knowledge or understanding? No, not at all. No life has yet been discovered outside of Earth, nor has any conclusive proof that there ever has been life outside of Earth been discovered.

So, right now, there are only hypotheses in search of proofs. We have no direct evidence of life on any other worlds, ever.

So, it's no "ignorant" to believe that there is no other life out there.

It seems, when one envisions the sheer size of the universe, the sheer number of stars -- to the point of ridiculousness -- that we can't fathom a reason why out of all the myriad solar systems out there, that ours would be the only one with life. We view the universe as so large that intuitively we feel there must be other places like ours somewhere, and maybe there is.

But we really don't know, since we don't know the probability of a world forming that is capable of harboring life. Maybe it's one in 1000 trillion quadrillion quintillion googolzillion..... and in our multiverse, you rarely get a universe with more than one life-giving world. Maybe there are googolzillions of universes in the multiverse, a lot of them with life and a lot without life. Who knows?

Right now, the only answer is "we don't have enough information from which to form a conclusion."

Answer 4

I agree with you that it is arrogant and narrowminded to believe there is not life anywhere else in the universe. What's worse is the scientists who search for life will dismiss a planet as "not capable of sustaining life" because the conditions are not like those here on Earth. Why could there not be a life form to whom water is toxic? Why not a life form that breathes pure carbon monoxide? I find the arrogance and smallmindedness of scientists even more disturbing than that of people who believe we are the only planet with life on it.

Answer 5

I'd say that it's possible that there is life on other planets. However, isn't it also possible that there isn't? Is it not possible that God created this marvelous, vast universe, and put life only on one planet therein?

I don't pretend to know for a fact that there isn't life on other planets, and I have no interest in debating either side. I'm just asking: isn't it possible?

Answer 6

No it is not ignorant to not believe in life outside of our planet. I don't believe in life outside of Earth for the same reason I don't believe in gods; there is almost no credible evidence. Is it likely that there are organisms somewhere else? Probably. Does that mean much? Nope.

Answer 7

I agree wholeheartedly, and have asserted the same thing for the longest time (often in reference to belief that animal's do not have souls, as well). There is no reason for us to assume that we are the only life in this massive universe. If it is improbable for life to exist at all, yet it does, then the odds are that life exists elsewhere as well.

Answer 8

properly, in case you have self belief in a organic, non god appropriate creation of existence, then existence replaced into no longer something extra then an twist of destiny, whose odds of happening as quickly as have been astronomical, much less two times someplace else. despite if it did, in the time of historic previous, existence has come on the fringe of being thoroughly wiped out(long earlier guy), whose to declare something didnt take place on yet another planet with existence that still replaced into around? their could be existence suitable now on a "close" planet, one that would desire to take a million years with todays technologies to attain, and all that's is microscopic organisms. exciting, sure, yet on the comparable time, no. for larger varieties of existence, properly, evaluate how extremely diverse existence is on our very own planet, whose creatures have developed part by ability of part for untold time. as that's, we are the only society able existence out of BILLIONS of diverse species, some that are alive now, some long extinct. basically us. what are those odds, for one planet? on the fringe of 0. what are the opportunities of yet another planet having something close? actually 0.

Answer 9

I mean, what if they allready know we exist?? I mean, we haven't even heard from our government about the discovery in Rosewell, it's as if they don't want us to know they know or they don't want to worry us. I mean what's to worrry about, they're pretty much the same thing as us, I believe there is life out there, there has to be, it couldn't be true that out of this whole universe we're the only living creatures!!! I mean i want the answers, and i want them quick.

Answer 10

I have no doubt that there is other life out there. The chances for it existing are to great given the number of galaxies.

The only real question is if we will encounter it.