Christians...do any of you believe in life other than that on earth?

Question

Do you think that we are the only living beings that God made? I sometimes wonder....He made the entire universe....are we just special???

Answer 1

I don't choose to believe one way or the other. I certainly think it is within the realm of possibility that God created life, possibly even intelligent life, on other planets in the galaxy. Nothing in the bible tells me that he did but that doesn't mean that he didn't. The Bible tells the story of God's interactions with human beings on this planet...his relationship with creations on another planet wouldn't be relevant to humans (and wouldn't have even been vaguely understood in the period during which the various parts of the bible were written). It is possible that God created another world with another Adam and Eve...and it is even possible that they chose to eat of the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and are still living in the original paradise he built for them...heck, he could have built his house there and that's where he wants to take us to be with him after our earthly bodies die (heaven?). I can't pretend to understand the mind or the plans of the creator for the entire universe...I have a hard enough time just figuring out my role. I'll leave the rest in his capable hands and trust that some day the big picture will be revealed to me (perhaps that's one of the characteristics of heaven, all questions answered????)

Answer 2

Some of the other answers are very thought provoking. It is a shame some of us can not get to gether to further discuss the question.

Just to add my two cents worth, "let us make MAN in our own image, dosen't that seem to suggest there may have been other options?

Charles, you point out some very good, probabilities to estimate the potential, for "Human Life forms". I fear a mistake is perhaps being made, thinking only interms of life as we find our selves involved on this earth. for example our bodies have been designed to with stand aprox 32 pounds per square inch of atmosphere at sea level. Consider some natives of the Hymalayas, live with far different pressures. Consider the astronauts, and aquanauts all must use pressure suits to function in those enviroments.

Now consider not all the planets thus far found or will be found would be suitable for our form of life. Can we say as the human race a "Supreme Being" could not make (a) man that could survive in some different type of atmosphere? Are we so certain we are the best example of life form that he, she or it, could have produced.

Further in reading the Bible, we will find there are other "forms of life mentioned "Serabim, and Chrebium" are these human type life forms as considered in there Biblica duties? When a reader of the Bible recalls Elija was taken up in to the sky...what happened that he could still breath or not explode after a certain distance. In Revelation those which are "saved" from a firey end are suppose to be taken up into the sky to meet Christ. Their bodies are suppose to be changed in the twinkling of an eye....

Other type of life or the same on those far away planets becomes a lot more possible when we dampen the "it can not be do to the laws of physics we know and understand.

There is probably a whole big book of PHYSICS that the Supreme Being has to work with we as humans have not even concived of.

Answer 3

We are very special, indeed!!! There is no other life "out there" in the universe. God made Earth and all of the stars, the sun the moon, the other planets, man and man's souls, animals, water, and plants and trees.
There is Heaven and it is in a different dimension, so we can't see it. All souls go back to God for eternity in Heaven. The souls of bad people will be destroyed and there will be no tears in Heaven. For eternity.
Do your soul a favor and read the Bible and get to know God and Jesus and what they expect from us!!! Eternity is FOREVER. Amen.
Good luck and may God bless you.

Answer 4

I believe that God created other worlds outside of our universe, in other universes. I don't believe that we will ever find them, or that they will ever find us. I don't think that will ever happen, but they are people just like us, made in the same way, and doing the same things we are. I also think that there are animals, plants and pretty much the same things on those planets that there is on ours.

I don't believe there are aliens, or space ship, or other beings that are trying to contact us, or trying to study us. That wouldn't make sense, but I do think that there are other people out there, somewhere, beyond what science has found.

Answer 5

While it is true that no one knows, my own guess is that the probability of life elsewhere is likely to be low.

Why?

The number of stars in our galaxy is thought to be about 100 billion (100,000,000,000 stars). What proportion of those stars are of the right stellar type? O, B, A and early F type stars are not suitable since they are too hot, their radiation is too high in the ultraviolet, and because they tend to be massive their life-spans are too short. O types, for example, have life-span estimates in the sub-100 million year range and we need the 7 to 10 billion year range. We need dwarf stars, late F, G (like our sun), and early K's. Fortunately, these seem pretty common, say 50% of all stars: (50,000,000,000 stars).

Given the current rate of discovery of planets in the local stellar neighborhood, estimates of the number of stars with planets is approaching 50%. How many planets? Well, we have a solar system with 8 planets, and two large dwarf planets. This is our first real guess. Let's say 5 planets per star. (250,000,000,000 planets)

How many of the planets can support life? Guess again, but 1 in 10 does not currently seem unreasonable. (25,000,000,000 planets)

Now the hard guess, for those planets, what is the probability for life to actually evolve? This requires planets with the right early atmosphere (methane, ammonia, CO2, nitrogen), plenty of water, high carbon and metal content, planetary magnetic field, iron core, plate tectonics, tides (so we need a moon!). These all contribute to the likelihood of life evolving. We could be unique, but let's say 1 in 1 billion will have life evolve. That is 25 planets in our galaxy, over the life of the galaxy. How long do galaxies survive. No one know, but it would seem a very long time, so let us say longer than the age of the universe, say, 25 billion years. So at any given time there is likely to be only 1 planet with life.

Like I said, lot of guesswork. I am not hopeful.

HTH

Charles

Answer 6

simply by fact the creationist perception in all fairness recent, they have self assurance the backyard of Eden became the middle East close to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. there is not any such element as an Evolutionist, and evolution has not something to do with it, yet existence began on earth some 3.5 billion years in the past. on the time, the geography became vastly distinctive from what it quite is now. you could't say it began in Asia or Africa simply by fact those continents did not exist. it could have began on a touch bit land that has because moved and alter into integrated into what's now Africa, yet that's variety of a trick question.

Answer 7

I don't know. Since we know He created the Heavens and the Earth, there could be other beings He created, but we don't know about them. Just have faith. We are not special other than the fact that we were created in God's Image. Also, we have the "choice" thing that everyone talks about all the time.

Answer 8

Nope I doubt that we are the only living beings, why would God make the universe so big if we were the only living species.

Answer 9

I believe there are other intelligent life forms somewhere in the unexplored universe. That would be pretty small-minded not to.

Answer 10

I don't believe in life on other planets, but hey, He's God. If He made someone or something else, why not?