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By:
Desmond Orchard
When: 09 Mar 11 09:00
I think it was Einstein who was asked if he would be amazed if we were to discover intelligent life elsewhere, his reply was that he would be more amazed if we didn't. Good enough for me.
By:
Ovalman.
When: 09 Mar 11 09:35
100 billion Suns in 100 billion galaxies, I think it's statistically very likely there is another planet out there with intelligent life forms on it and even more likely that primitive life is abundant in the Universe.

I would also reckon it is 50/50 that there is microbial life elsewhere in our own Solar System, signs are looking good for Moons of Jupiter, Saturn and even Mars. Of course the bashers will squirm but they would move the goalposts again to feed their delusions.
By:
man of many moods
When: 09 Mar 11 09:41
Very conservative figures there Oval. But I agree. It's mathematically inconceivable that there isn't life elsewhere in the universe.
By:
Aussi_is_back
When: 09 Mar 11 09:51
Is this a God conspiracy thread.

DNA exists because it exists, just like a piece of rock, just like all the stars in all the galaxies, it's only a mixture of four different bases that can be easily formed by passing an electrical current in a chemical "soup". It's not alchemy, and its not a deity, it's just pure fluke that these particular four bases form lovely ester hydrogen bonds.

As for where everything came from, I'm a chemist not a physicst but I do know there was a point singularity that had virtually infinite density and energy, with special relativity involved. You might want to read up on it, I don't life is too short.

Science >>>>>>> God
By:
manxy
When: 09 Mar 11 10:10
but I do know there was a point singularity that had virtually infinite density and energy, with special relativity involved.

oh well that explains it merlin.

ffs.
By:
manxy
When: 09 Mar 11 10:16
it's only a mixture of four different bases that can be easily formed by passing an electrical current in a chemical "soup". It's not alchemy

by the way merlin if its that simple then it will exist all thru the cosmos.

and if its that simple how come they cannot create it in a lab.
By:
Aussi_is_back
When: 09 Mar 11 10:37
Erm Manxy, You can create the DNA bases in a lab, and combine them quite easily.

DNA is not even remotely difficult to produce, to get it in the correct order is the hard part. That is what billions of years of evolution has done for us.

Nature is a wonderful thing, we can create industrial diamonds, but they are never as beautiful as the naturally created ones. (I'm sure God made them also [smiley:crazy])
By:
Angel Gabrial
When: 09 Mar 11 11:15
It must be streaming with life out there, that is my guess. Unless we are special in the eyes of God. Some believe that what we perceive is just an illusion created by our minds through our consciousnssness. For example the colour red does not exist. It is just the way we perceive it due to to the energy given out by the vibrations format. So maybe we have created each other and everything thing else only through perception of concousness through energy vibrations. After death i hope this becomes clear. hth
By:
boggle
When: 09 Mar 11 11:55
It’s possible that we are on our own, if the Many-Worlds quantum-mechanical description of the universe is correct. All possible outcomes must co-exist; including at least one in which by chance other intelligent life failed to evolve. If that’s the case, then it is as likely to be this universe as any of the alternatives that has just us in it.
By:
Get me a drink
When: 09 Mar 11 13:54
I don't hold with this many worlds idea. I think the universe behaves more like a flowing river, taking the path of least resistance.

I think that we could be alone in the universe, or there could be many planets or places that hold intelligent life. It all depends on the probability that a particular point in space contains (intelligent) life.

I would define intelligence as an organism capable of thought processes outside of it's needs for survival.
By:
brendanuk1
When: 09 Mar 11 14:50
out of nothing came everything. what does this science thing say about that?
By:
Aussi_is_back
When: 09 Mar 11 14:55
I didn't come from nothing, it came from a virtually infinite mass of everything, according to some theorists it may well contract back to that singularity.
By:
brendanuk1
When: 09 Mar 11 14:58
we came from a virtual infinite mass of everything Confused nice one
By:
STEPTOES YARD
When: 09 Mar 11 15:02
All a bit heavy for chit chat this
By:
Ivor
When: 09 Mar 11 15:02
At least science is pursuing an understanding and explanation - religion is stuck with 2000 year-old texts goes nowhere and never will develop further other than try and make known science 'fit'into it's earlier thoughts.
By:
manxy
When: 09 Mar 11 15:34
Aussi_is_back Joined: 16 Dec 10
Replies: 743 09 Mar 11 14:55 
I didn't come from nothing, it came from a virtually infinite mass of everything, according to some theorists it may well contract back to that singularity.


boll0cks to this merlin, i am off back to the ketchup on fish and chips thread.
By:
Aussi_is_back
When: 09 Mar 11 15:45
Yep, you squash everything in the universe into a tiny point and that is it as amazing as that might seem.

Think of it like this, 10g of high explosive will blow your house up, the explosive is far smaller than your house. It posesses a lot of energy.

Now imagine something that has virtually infinite energy, when that explodes you get everything, I don't understand the first few milliseconds with quarks and what not, I only understand it when we get to electrons, protons and neutrons. Nature is pretty clever, think of them as lego bricks.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 19:49
There is no scientific evidence that God does not exist, if there is then please present it now.

Yeah, lets prove a negative, noble prize for anyone, there



Exactly you can't prove a negative. it has to be taken on faith. I don't have enough faith to be a atheist.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 19:51
Not convinced there`s that much intelligent life on Earth

Thats right judging by some of the posts on this thread.
By:
Ivor
When: 09 Mar 11 19:52
lordy lordy Sad
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 19:55
100 billion Suns in 100 billion galaxies, I think it's statistically very likely there is another planet out there with intelligent life forms on it and even more likely that primitive life is abundant in the Universe.

I would also reckon it is 50/50 that there is microbial life elsewhere in our own Solar System, signs are looking good for Moons of Jupiter, Saturn and even Mars. Of course the bashers will squirm but they would move the goalposts again to feed their delusions



Why would they? I don't have a problem with life being found some where else in the universe. The Bible doesn't say there isn't.This is yet another strawman.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:00
Is this a God conspiracy thread.

DNA exists because it exists, just like a piece of rock, just like all the stars in all the galaxies, it's only a mixture of four different bases that can be easily formed by passing an electrical current in a chemical "soup
".

So why haven't they made it then if its easy?


It's not alchemy, and its not a deity, it's just pure fluke that these particular four bases form lovely ester hydrogen bonds.


So you say.Prove it? You seem to believe in the goddess of Chance.

As for where everything came from, I'm a chemist not a physicst but I do know there was a point singularity that had virtually infinite density and energy, with special relativity involved. You might want to read up on it, I don't life is too short.

Science >>>>>>> God
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:06
Erm Manxy, You can create the DNA bases in a lab, and combine them quite easily.

DNA is not even remotely difficult to produce, to get it in the correct order is the hard part. That is what billions of years of evolution has done for us
.

How life first came about is called Abiogenesis, not evolution.

Nature is a wonderful thing, we can create industrial diamonds, but they are never as beautiful as the naturally created ones. (I'm sure God made them also


nature made diamonds, some people might call nature God.God actually created nature, so in away he did create diamonds.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:09
It’s possible that we are on our own, if the Many-Worlds quantum-mechanical description of the universe is correct. All possible outcomes must co-exist;

if there are infinite multiple universes then anything that can happen will happen ,so one of these multiple universes will have God in it.Again proving the atheists wrong.


including at least one in which by chance other intelligent life failed to evolve. If that’s the case, then it is as likely to be this universe as any of the alternatives that has just us in it
By:
maleuk01.
When: 09 Mar 11 20:10
DNA exists because it exists, just like a piece of rock, just like all the stars in all the galaxies, it's only a mixture of four different bases that can be easily formed by passing an electrical current in a chemical "soup". It's not alchemy, and its not a deity, it's just pure fluke that these particular four bases form lovely ester hydrogen bonds.


This just isnt true at all.

As pointed out, we cannot create the very simplist form of life in any lab with any electrical current, we cannot even create the very simplist dna in any lab. As i pointed out scientists have no explanation. And as for electrical energy from rocks, well never heard that 1.

Another major problem is that there seems to be just 1 basic strand of DNA in which all life have and obv more complex life then form more complex DNA. If DNA randomly came into being then there should be more than 1 basic strand of DNA. This is another problem to overcome.

DNA has been described as a manual a set of instructions on how life forms and develops, how can a so called random event have a programming set of instructions, which is another major issue that needs addressing.
By:
ooO{Alpha Centauri}Ooo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:11
I wonder how many intelligent races have come and gone?  We could be the last one, the universal order may have given up on intelligence as a 'bad idea' and we may vanish not ever knowing we were the last throw of the dice for self conciousness.
By:
maleuk01.
When: 09 Mar 11 20:14
alpha we could also be the first, another possibility. the universe is only 13.7 billion years old, in the life of the universe that is very very young. Maybe in 5 billion years the human race could have populated any habital planets in the milky way and the next question could be how to get to other galaxaies.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:17
I didn't come from nothing, it came from a virtually infinite mass of everything, according to some theorists it may well contract back to that singularity


This begs the question though where did this virtually infinite mass of everything come from?science says that time had a beginning, so it can't have always existed.As for it contracting back to that singularity,
this goes against the scientific evidence .the universe is speeding up, which is the opposite of the big crunch.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:20
At least science is pursuing an understanding and explanation - religion is stuck with 2000 year-old texts goes nowhere and never will develop further other than try and make known science 'fit'into it's earlier thoughts

You have no evidence for this.
this is an atheist myth. it might come as shock to you that some scientists are Christians and that modern science started in Christian Europe, not in a Islamic a country or in China.
By:
Sunset Cristo
When: 09 Mar 11 20:25
DNA exists because it exists, just like a piece of rock, just like all the stars in all the galaxies, it's only a mixture of four different bases that can be easily formed by passing an electrical current in a chemical "soup". It's not alchemy, and its not a deity, it's just pure fluke that these particular four bases form lovely ester hydrogen bonds.


This just isnt true at all.

As pointed out, we cannot create the very simplist form of life in any lab with any electrical current, we cannot even create the very simplist dna in any lab. As i pointed out scientists have no explanation. And as for electrical energy from rocks, well never heard that 1.

Another major problem is that there seems to be just 1 basic strand of DNA in which all life have and obv more complex life then form more complex DNA. If DNA randomly came into being then there should be more than 1 basic strand of DNA. This is another problem to overcome.

DNA has been described as a manual a set of instructions on how life forms and develops, how can a so called random event have a programming set of instructions, which is another major issue that needs addressing.



This is one of the reasons that Anthony Flow a famous atheist recently changed his mind and is now a deist.The evidence of DNA changed his mind.There are a few honest atheist that will follow the evidence where ever it goes.
By:
dewey
When: 09 Mar 11 21:11
O.P. - I am a total athiest, nor do I believe in u.f.o.'s, ghosts, life after death, fairies etc.,  or anything that seems unreal to me. However - I do believe that because there is life on 'our' earth there is a very strong possibility that life exists somewhere else in our very, very vast universe. It's pretty obvious to me though,  that it's  so very, very far away - we will never, ever  know about it - and so for me it's not even worth thinking about.
By:
manyana
When: 09 Mar 11 21:30
if peddlers cross wins the ch, i will offer up a prayer of thanks to whoever may or may not be in charge of the primordial? soup.
By:
dewey
When: 09 Mar 11 21:33
Exactly manyana - personnaly I like Minestrone best.
By:
dewey
When: 09 Mar 11 21:42
personally even
By:
Angel Gabrial
When: 10 Mar 11 00:03
What are those critters in out o space?
By:
manxy
When: 10 Mar 11 00:11
want me to find you some UV photos of critters in our atmosphere angel.

they are big buggers.

and invisible to the naked eye.
By:
i_agree_with_nick
When: 22 May 20 19:26
If the aliens ever wanted to put in an appearance, now wouldn't be a bad time.
By:
----you-have-to-laugh---
When: 22 May 20 19:30
waiting for quarantine ...
By:
zorrostrikes
When: 25 May 20 05:03
We sent a probe to mars. Bacteria on probe probably. They are very versatile. I am tempted to place bet with bookies. Then argue the case.
By:
zorrostrikes
When: 25 May 20 05:39
RNA disassembled quickly . Dna is reliant on five attributes being present at same time. Extremely unlikely. Designed. Micro machiNES build DNA. Biological subset. Repairs DNA. Information storage. Requires a sender and receiver. Watched many youtube vids on this. The bring up Urey expt  from fifties? Seventy yrs ago. Amino acIDs manufactured in flasks with gases never present on earth. Electricity generating acids. But electricity also destroys in long run. If it was correct. More scientists would have built on it. It's bad sscience. Many PhD scientists now think evolution is bunk. We adapt. Dogs change into poodles. Men are tiny and huge. But we don't grow wings.  Many species appear abruptly in the fossil record. No intermediate stages? Bats are very complicated. Sonar. Bone chambers in head precise. Hollow structures. Membranes. Blood and heart rate sky high. Totally complex. Just appears. Many animals same thing. Overy eight million types or species at low end possibly a billion , only 1.7 million described. University of Hawaii.  We can fossilized an object in a few yrs. Tools and even jeans left by miners have been fossilized. Carbon dating is recent. A seventies procedures. When dating a sample you fill in a form. They ask you how old do you think your sample is? Loaded question? You tell me. Point of carbon dating. Helium lasts a short time? Why is helium on earth. Salinity of oceans. Moon proximity. Hundreds of indications of earth being younger.  What scientist is right? What flavour of ice cream do you prefer?  They discover reality . The dnot make it.  Einstein over turned them all. It repeats. What we believed is overturned eventually. Therefore science is a place holder for the truth. Rolf Harris used to draw on screen. Can you tell what it is yet?? This is science . Filling in blank spaces . They know s little about a little.
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