The universe is a large place, I don't see how Earth is the only place where living things are found.
2007-12-29 15:19:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
We would indeed be arrogant to think we are the only life in the universe. Just because some holy book written by men doesn't say there is doesn't mean there isn't.
2007-12-29 15:56:09 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a question of whether you believe what God says or what man says regarding creation or origins of life.
God states in the Bible--Genesis 1 and 2 that He created all life on earth. The heavens simply proclaim His glory and power and serve as signs for us as well as markers of time. There is no mention of Him creating any life elsewhere on any other planet...this planet and all that it contains are His special creation. In all the vastness of the universe, we are special. It also states much later in Revelations that one day, He will destroy the current world and universe to create a new heaven and a new earth. If God's plan for this world is based on our sins and redemption by Christ, our Savior, then why should some other world with living beings be affected by events on our planet to the destruction of them.
Our current knowledge of the conditions for life to exist on any planet seems to suggest that our universe, laws of nature, planet earth, our solar system and galaxy are finely tuned for life to exist here on earth.
Given that life has never been observed or demonstrated to come from non-living materials ( the scientific Law of Biogenesis) nor can we re-animate living things once they die, it's highly doubtful that life on earth or anywhere else is possible without creation by God.
2007-12-29 17:15:15 · answer #2 · answered by paul h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because science has not proven if there are forms of life in the other part of universe aside from the planet earth. There are some speculations that there might be life on the other planets but as of yet there is no evidence.
2007-12-29 15:43:12 · answer #3 · answered by ladyheart 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is highly unlikely that there is intelligent life within a sensiblre distance of us; because the chance of another planet orbiting a star similar to our sun, at just the right distance and at jusst the right period is very remote. That is not to say that there is not life elsewhere; but if it is outside our own galaxy, then there would be no chance of reaching it (if we were to receive a signal from another galaxy; it would have taken hundreds of thousands of years to reach us; and by that time the galaxy would be somewhere else).
Within our own galaxy, there is a good chance of life forming; even possibly within our own solar system (the sattelite of Jupiter Europa is one quoted possibility), but the chance of us finding intelligent life is remote.
The question of WHY we are here, so alone, is another question.
2007-12-29 23:52:51 · answer #4 · answered by AndrewG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because so far it is the only place that has been proven to have life......while judging from the sheer amount of worlds in the universe it is overwhelmingly likely for life to exist in many places right now...we only have proof that it exists on earth
2007-12-29 15:26:48 · answer #5 · answered by ryan s 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's right. There's no way we could be the only living organisms based on how vast the universe is.
2007-12-29 15:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by Nate. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they don't they are either:
a) Stupid
b) Ultra-religious
c) Believer in the Rare Earth hypothesis (and for that matter, stupid)
2007-12-29 15:41:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people only believe what they can see.
2007-12-29 15:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by OhSoFly! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there's no proof yet.
2007-12-29 18:19:49 · answer #9 · answered by ziodiac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theyre stupid, arrogant and small minded.
2007-12-29 15:23:22 · answer #10 · answered by bfunkmystic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋