Do you think aliens exist? Why or why not?
My mind recently changed to thinking they don’t as I’ve started to see that humanity was created in the image of God, everywhere else in the universe is sterile.
Discussion
I believe they do. There could be more creations
When you say creations do you mean created by God? From a Christian standpoint, wouldn’t the story of Christ fall apart if there are other creations?
Unless they never consumed the fruit in the garden of Eden. Or you didn’t mean Christianity.
This is difficult because Ive studied multiple religions. When you say god/gods there is some overlap. But if we are using a christian perspective the story of christ would still hold. The garden of eden is a much bigger topic. We’d have to keep that as a separate topic altogether.
Interesting that you think it would still hold! So the case would be the universe is big enough for creations to be elsewhere but the next question is are they intentionally out of reach possibly?
This is pure speculation. My view is that they are seeded for different reasons. And they would either mature enough on their own to eventually interact with other species or expire as a race.
I’m sure life exists outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Advanced intelligence is very unlikely. Especially if you consider being made in God’a image. We are the only living beings with a spirit.
How could you be sure if there’s no basis for knowing the probabilities of life ever occurring? Even if the universe is infinitely big, based on our current evidence for how life occurs (zero evidence) it’s like looking for an igloo in an infinitely large Saharan desert.
If you look into the crazy pressure, low oxygen levels, and conditions that exist in the depths of the ocean. I just wouldn’t rule out the possibility. It’s definitely very scarce for sure. I’ve never been to space though 😂
There’s a lot that goes into the 0 ->1 of non life to life (cell). I don’t know how valid the claim is but the amount of data in a cell would fill up 100 encyclopedia volumes (875mb). I don’t see how you can create the perfect conditions for even 1 encyclopedia, much less survive and then have it know to replicate and have it be 99.99% accurate.
https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/how-much-data-genome
Seems impossible to create the perfect conditions for but then again I am taking the religious viewpoint so I’m biased 🙂
God is a pretty creative and brilliant creator. He’s capable of much more than we can comprehend. I’m not ruling out the possibility of some kind of life outside of our bubble
✌️ I come in peace
Aliens are demons