I have this notion that believers will overwhelmingly say yes even though there is absolutely no proof supporting this statement. I believe that the way a believer was trained to think they would have to agree that we are not alone.
I do not believe that life exist elsewhere as there is no evidence that it does. Once I have objective information to show that life does indeed exist of other planets, I will agree that there is in fact life outside our own planet.
Which side do you fall on?
2007-09-21 05:41:38 · 31 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
There currently is no reason to believe that life exist elsewhere in the universe, that is my belief. Especially when the question of what is life? has not been answered. I do not believe that it is just a collection of meticulously assembled atoms.
2007-09-21 08:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by Tomcat 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That is a really good question.
I believe that the possibility exists for there to be life on other planets but since we have not found life or even a planet we believe could support life (that we know of) then I would have to say...
No, I do not believe there is life beyond our planet.
I'm not sure that this comparison is quite to scale though. The universe is a really big place and we only know about a small portion of it. We don't know everything about our own planet yet but we still have a better idea about it than we do the universe. I would suggest that perhaps a comparison asking people if they believed in Big Foot might be a better angle. No one has found a Big Foot, yet there are many who claim they have found proof of it. And since we don't know 100% of what is living in all of our forrests we can't really say it does or doesn't exist but we have a much better idea about our forrests than the vastness of space.
2007-09-21 06:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i don't believe in any other life on Mars or anywhere else in this galaxy.
Yes, I do believe that out of the enitire universe, Earth is not the only plant that harbors life.
We don't have the technology right now to explore very far beyond our own planet, which is probably why no other life has been discovered.
A few hundred years ago you probably could have said "I do not believe that germs exist because there is no objective information to show that they exist," but that doesn't keep them from existing.
I say that life exists on other planets until proven otherwise (btw, you'd have to search the entire universe to do that. good luck)
2007-09-23 11:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by mandieshaw13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you ever play the odds?
There are a 100 billion stars in our Galaxy... some galaxies have more.. some have less... but they all have 100's of millions to billions... each of which could conceivably have a planet or two that could support life.... and there are 100's of billions of galaxies.....
The odds are in the favor of mother nature and life out there in some form or another.
You may be a pragmatist.. but that's just another way of being afraid to be wrong.... Pragmatists don't believe anything.. because you can prove nothing.... A pragmatist would argue that you could take 1,000 reindeer.. throw them off the top of a building and watch them go splat... but this still would not prove that on December 24th 8 tiny reindeer didn't circle the globe.... so they would say you can neither prove nor disprove their existence.... no offense but I'll stick with being a realist.
2007-09-21 09:01:03 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely right that there is no evidence, let alone proof of life on other planets. I do not believe that there is life on the other planets of our solar system. HOWEVER- because of the literally countless number of planets in the universe, I believe that it is inevitable that there is some life somewhere on one or more of those billions of planets. It may not be life 'as we know it', but odds are that it is out there. Also, as much as I would like to see such life, odds are that it won't be visiting here. Ever. Meanwhile, the life on THIS planet is pretty amazing, and I can live with that.
2007-09-21 05:56:11 · answer #5 · answered by roscoedeadbeat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you: we cannot conclusively state that life exists elsewhere without actual evidence to confirm it. However, I think it reasonable to, at least, posit that life is likely to arise and evolve on planets throughout the galaxy and universe where conditions are most similar to the conditions of our planet. As for planets in our own solar system, our planet is obviously the only one where conditions were favorable for evolution to proceed to the extent that it has. If life exists on any of the other planets, it most likely has not evolved beyond a microbial level as conditions are much too harsh for advanced life to evolve. These are, of course, only speculations. Our understanding of what conditions make life possible, particularly advanced life, will change and grow as we gather more data.
2007-09-21 06:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Odds are there is something else out there because without other life then we wouldn't be here. It might not even be aliens but bacterias or small living things. But if any other planets had "human like" animals it doesn't mean that there smarter than us or they can kill us in a whole war but they could be less intelligent than us. There are so many possibilities that no one can ever really know what it out there.
2007-09-21 08:33:06 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ Pompey and The Red Devils! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that life =probably= exists on other planets. It isn't scientific to say something definitely exists or doesn't exist. And we don't need proof to talk about probabilities. Proof is a property exclusive to mathematics, not science.
Think about this for a moment. There are billions galaxies in the universe, and each one of these galaxies contains hunreds of billions of stars, and each one of these stars has the potential to have dozens (hundreds, perhaps) of planets orbiting it. And it's obviously not impossible for life to arise since, well, we're here talking about it. So it seems highly unlikely that at least =two= of these planets wouldn't able to support life.
2007-09-21 06:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I believe that life most likely exists on other planets.
The reason I believe this is because there are so many galaxies/stars/planets in our universe that the probability of there being life on other planets is quite good. A basic discussion of the probabilities is available here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Purpose/2._Life/The_Probability_That_Life_Exists_Elsewhere
The fact that there is currently no proof of life on other planets is a very weak argument, because we only have the ability to search for such evidence on a miniscule fraction of the total number of planets in the universe. A probabilistic argument is much more relevant and convincing in this case.
You know I'm a global warming acknowledger, but the evidence for global warming is not based on a probabilistic argument, so this is not a relevant comparison.
2007-09-21 06:41:10 · answer #9 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Right now we can look out side of our own galaxy, spot black holes. Etc. The theory is the universe is expanding. I am sure there is life on other planets. What kind? I don't know it could be bacteria for all we know.
However our technology is not completely to the point of exploring billions of light years away to have this discovery. There is no way to disprove it with out knowing all the facts.
2007-09-21 05:51:54 · answer #10 · answered by krennao 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is parasitic life on other planets out there. If it can develop here in so many different forms and under so many different conditions then somewhere out there are relative similar conditions that can produce some form of life.
In the mean time it is up for debate as to when, where and what we will bump into it.
2007-09-21 08:45:20 · answer #11 · answered by RomeoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋