C'mon, man. When you look at your desk...there is no evidence that there is life on any planet circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol. What makes you suppose that is evidence that there are no sentient beings on any of those planets? — Frank Apisa
NKBJ
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What you "assume"...you assume. I have NOT said anything about that. I, like most people, assume all sorts of things.
But what you assume about sentient beings on any planet circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol...has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether any sentient beings live on any of those planets.
So why did you mention it? — Frank Apisa
Your post doesn't really make sense....but I'll try to wean as much out of it as I can.
I assume there is life on other planets because there is plenty of reason to believe there is. For example, life evolved on this planet, so clearly it's possible for it to happen. You multiply that possibility by the number of inhabitable planets and you get a pretty decent likelihood.
You have no precendent for the existence of gods. Not one. There's not a single reason or piece of evidence to believe they might exist. — NKBJ
By the way...to the best of our knowledge...no life exists except on planet Earth...not even in our system...which has billions of bodies circling the sun. — Frank Apisa
YOU telling me how to make sense...is like Chris Christie telling me how to stay thin, N. — Frank Apisa
Terrapin Station
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C'mon, man. When you look at your desk...there is no evidence that there is life on any planet circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol. What makes you suppose that is evidence that there are no sentient beings on any of those planets? — Frank Apisa
Life on other planets isn't supposed to be omnipresent, is it?
God is supposed to be.
If we're talking about a non-omnipresent God, I'm point out the lack of evidence of it in the locations where we're supposed to find it. — Terrapin Station
I am not talking about anyone named God. — Frank Apisa
NKBJ
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By the way...to the best of our knowledge...no life exists except on planet Earth...not even in our system...which has billions of bodies circling the sun. — Frank Apisa
See my above link. — NKBJ
YOU telling me how to make sense...is like Chris Christie telling me how to stay thin, N. — Frank Apisa
If you're gonna start getting snarky and insulting with me, I'm also gonna go on my merry way.
Terrapin Station
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I am not talking about anyone named God. — Frank Apisa
I said "it." Are you not talking about anything named God? — Terrapin Station
Then either stop the nonsense about me not making sense...or be on your way. Because if you show me a lack of respect...I WILL return the favor. — Frank Apisa
Okay...they are in the process. When they answer my question about sentient life on any of the planets circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol...get back to me. — Frank Apisa
In any case...the nonsense you posted above does not impact on my question...which talks about the planets circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol...not the universe.
By the way...to the best of our knowledge...no life exists except on planet Earth...not even in our system...which has billions of bodies circling the sun. — Frank Apisa
Terrapin Station
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↪Frank Apisa
If you're not talking about anything named God then what the hell are we even talking about?
"Let's start a thread using this word, but then say that we're not talking about anything using this word." How stupid is that? — Terrapin Station
NKBJ
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Then either stop the nonsense about me not making sense...or be on your way. Because if you show me a lack of respect...I WILL return the favor. — Frank Apisa
I said your post wasn't making sense. I didn't attack you as a person.
Okay...they are in the process. When they answer my question about sentient life on any of the planets circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol...get back to me. — Frank Apisa
They still have a meteorite and soil samples and the existence of all of life on earth and you got nothin. So the ball is still in your court: where is a single shred of anything that makes God even a tiny bit more likely than Russell's teapot? — NKBJ
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In any case...the nonsense you posted above does not impact on my question...which talks about the planets circling the nearest 25 stars to Sol...not the universe.
By the way...to the best of our knowledge...no life exists except on planet Earth...not even in our system...which has billions of bodies circling the sun. — Frank Apisa
Even in our best instruments, large eco-planets appear as mere specks, so there is no way we are going to be able to detect life on them.
Earth is the only thing big enough to support an atmosphere within the the habitable zone so you would not expect life in the rest of the solar system. — Devans99
If you're not talking about anything named God then what the hell are we even talking about?
"Let's start a thread using this word, but then say that we're not talking about anything using this word." How stupid is that? — Terrapin Station
Devans99
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↪Frank Apisa
I feel it is likely that there is life in nearby systems.
'The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years; the earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates from at least 3.5 billion years ago. There is evidence that life began much earlier.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms
So evolution did not take long to get up and running here. I'd expect similar results on similar planets elsewhere. — Devans99
— S
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↪Frank Apisa
We would never know if there was sentient life in a nearby system - they are just too distant for us to be able to pick up artificial EMR.
We have a sample size of one solar system that says solar systems come with sentient life. It's dangerous to rely on a small sample size I know, but that is all the information we have.
So I feel a gambling man, if he had to make a bet, would bet on aliens. — Devans99
Okay...so you agree..."I do not know" is the answer — Frank Apisa
S
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I didn't have something to say to you, I had something to say about you. You're so predictable that I already know to a degree of exactitude how you'll respond, so it seemed kind of pointless directing it to you. — S
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