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Post by jonren on Feb 5, 2009 5:34:15 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Feb 5, 2009 8:23:42 GMT
Hmm. Not sure I like his thinking. Easy for life to develop? Yet in what are apparently ideal circumstances on earth it took a billion years of primordial soup for the first succesful reproducing life-form.
And the second one - easy for intelligent life to evolve? On this planet it's taken 4 billion years of evolution to develop "intelligent" life, and that's been around - in an industrial way, for at most 150 years.
I'm happy to guess there life out there on loads of planets. Odds of there being other civilisations seem very, very low to me.
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Post by Psalms on Feb 5, 2009 10:05:44 GMT
Evolution has never been proven, so I'll wait for the actual alien evidence. Still waiting on evolution.
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Post by bertrus2 on Feb 5, 2009 11:28:08 GMT
Psalms,
David Attenborough explains evolution for you on a recent BBC programme. If this doesn't make the Tree of Life clear to you, why not take a course in the subject?
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Post by reverend on Feb 5, 2009 12:51:42 GMT
evolution makes a hell of a lot more sense than the religious explanations, thats for sure!
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Post by radge on Feb 5, 2009 13:06:06 GMT
I believe 100% in life on another planet in our Galaxy. Intelligent life is just as likely because if we can, i dont see why one of the millions of stars, dont have one of over a billion planets close enough to it that the planet could develop just as ours has. The likely hood of life in our galaxy high. The likely hood of intelligent life is high, just by the law of nature.
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Post by Libby on Feb 5, 2009 13:15:20 GMT
I really don't know what to think, i do believe in evolution and the possibility that there is "life" out there. I don't think we are the only civilisation, that notion just seems too remote to me. Whether or not we eventually find out, who knows?!
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Feb 5, 2009 13:18:35 GMT
evolution makes a hell of a lot more sense than the religious explanations, thats for sure!Says someone with a user name of reverend? I like it. 
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Post by peakman on Feb 5, 2009 13:20:28 GMT
Evolution has never been proven, so I'll wait for the actual alien evidence. Still waiting on evolution. I'll go for "Intelligent design", with built in evolution ability for all creatures, The exception being mankind, which is a genetically modified ape.  |
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Post by bertrus2 on Feb 5, 2009 23:26:32 GMT
I'll go for "Intelligent design", with built in evolution ability for all creatures, The exception being mankind, which is a genetically modified ape . There are thousands of creation myths . They are all prescientific rubbish, taken literally. |
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Post by Amazed on Feb 5, 2009 23:50:24 GMT
WHAT?
You mean I have to stop believing in this:
"The Finnish epic, the Kalevala, tells the story of the creation. This opening shows Ilmatar, maiden daughter of Air, lying lonely in the sea. A golden-eyed duck builds a nest on her knee and lays eggs, which fall and break to pieces, forming the earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, stars, and the clouds. "
I'm devastated!
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Post by Marshall on Feb 5, 2009 23:57:01 GMT
Where no bugger has been - have you been reading Ender's Game, Jonren?
Maybe the reason the universe is so vast is to make sure no two civilzations are able to contact each other.
Psalms - admit it, you would disregard any proof even if it bit you on the nose.
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Post by skyways on Feb 6, 2009 1:58:10 GMT
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Post by justmyopinion on Feb 6, 2009 8:52:13 GMT
In view of some of the comments on these boards, there seem to be a few alien worlds a bit closer to earth!
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Post by jonren on Feb 6, 2009 9:51:05 GMT
It is time to reveal the truth. The planet I was born on was doomed to destruction by moving ever nearer to the sun. My father sealed me in a basket and sent me to earth.
That is probably why so many people refer to me as a basket case. I landed in a duck pond in Queen's Park Glasgow. I was found by a kindly couple who brought me up. I am often asked why I wear a helmet constantly. It is to hide my four ears and a third eye high on my forehead.
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