Aliens

#101
#101
joevol33 said:
I bet I can impress you.
Click to expand...

Your wife is lying to you, Joe. Size does matter and that humming you hear coming from the bathroom when she's in there is not her electric razor.

Mythbusters-mythbusters-9932771-1152-864.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#105
#105
LouderVol said:
Who knows we might be the only world where life evolved from a world with liquid water and so the aliens out there aren't looking at us because we don't fit their mold to life.
Click to expand...

Or (since there is no scientific example or known possible mechanism), maybe life didn't evolve at all.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#106
#106
We are not alone. Somewhere in the universe, somewhere in time, we will meet other species. To, it's not a matter of if, but when.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#107
#107
LouderVol said:
Don't act like your not impressed.
Click to expand...

"Evolution" is a theory to explain the suggested appearance of diverse and more complex organisms over time, influenced by the natural selection of favorable adaptations due to genetic mutations and recombinations of preexisting organisms. It offers no explanation to the appearance of life.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#110
#110
No problemo. All we need is the world's best deep core driller.

And a rocket.

And lots and lots of cheese.
 
#111
#111
The terms "habitable" and "life-sustaining" are dumb in these conversations. They assume life will proceed in a way that is similar to life here on Earth. There is nothing that necessitates that.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#112
#112
PKT_VOL said:
The terms "habitable" and "life-sustaining" are dumb in these conversations. They assume life will proceed in a way that is similar to life here on Earth. There is nothing that necessitates that.
Click to expand...

sure it does,it is just according to if the aliens seeded it the same as they did Earth,are you behind in your Sci Fi reading ? :)
 
#114
#114
kiddiedoc said:
"Evolution" is a theory to explain the suggested appearance of diverse and more complex organisms over time, influenced by the natural selection of favorable adaptations due to genetic mutations and recombinations of preexisting organisms. It offers no explanation to the appearance of life.
Click to expand...

pretty sure we can call evolution more than a theory now, but to your last statement I would agree.
 
#115
#115
PKT_VOL said:
The terms "habitable" and "life-sustaining" are dumb in these conversations. They assume life will proceed in a way that is similar to life here on Earth. There is nothing that necessitates that.
Click to expand...

Even as a Creationist and Christian, I agree with this. While there is no evidence of ET life and no Biblical reference to support the existence of other life or intelligent beings, an all-powerful God could certainly create "life" in any form He chose. Nothing would dictate that it has be, in any way, similar to us, require the same habitat, or even have the same physical properties.

Not only is the idea dumb, it's also arrogant and belittling towards God.

Some would argue that the development of life is so unlikely (and us so fortunate with a billion billions of a chance) that only conditions like those on earth would be likely to accommodate such. However, even the perfect conditions here HAVE NEVER shown any promise to explain the origin of life, nor the development of intricately-complex structures and mentation (see: human nervous system and eye).
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#118
#118
Looks like a good time for another quote from My Name Is Earl.

Earl was picking up Randy from his first day back in school and Randy was telling him about his day.

Randy: Did you know that before we were humans we were monkeys?
Earl: Really? What were we before that?
Randy: I don't know. I can't even remember being a monkey.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#120
#120
kiddiedoc said:
Micro-evolution and adaptation, yes.

Macro-evolution has become even more unlikely than when first postulated.
Click to expand...

Depending on where you are drawing the line between macro and micro I might agree.

making an assumption that you aren't quite willing to accept that we evolved from a common ancestor with monkeys though.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#121
#121
LouderVol said:
making an assumption that you aren't quite willing to accept that we evolved from a common ancestor with monkeys though.
Click to expand...

Well, yes, you could say that :)

Aside from the relatively-sudden appearance of a great diversity of species in the fossil record, the complete lack of any reasonable evidence of a large civilization/population of primordial man is damning to Darwinian evolutionary theory.

For comparison: look at the footprint humankind has left on the earth in, say, roughly 5,000 years of recorded history. The time required for evolutionary shift and adaptation of "man" would be 100s or 1,000s times that long. Massive groups of pre-human ancestors would have had to roam, settle, and survive for hundreds of thousands of years in order to accumulate the progressive genetic shifts. Yet, no trace remains? It's really hard to understand why so many people cling to the idea.

At this point, it requires more "faith" to believe in evolution than it does to accept what I hold as truth.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#122
#122
kiddiedoc said:
Well, yes, you could say that :)

Aside from the relatively-sudden appearance of a great diversity of species in the fossil record, the complete lack of any reasonable evidence of a large civilization/population of primordial man is damning to Darwinian evolutionary theory.

For comparison: look at the footprint humankind has left on the earth in, say, roughly 5,000 years of recorded history. The time required for evolutionary shift and adaptation of "man" would be 100s or 1,000s times that long. Massive groups of pre-human ancestors would have had to roam, settle, and survive for hundreds of thousands of years in order to accumulate the progressive genetic shifts. Yet, no trace remains? It's really hard to understand why so many people cling to the idea.

At this point, it requires more "faith" to believe in evolution than it does to accept what I hold as truth.
Click to expand...

you know "we" evolved in Africa right? and that's where all the pre-human remains are being found. "we" didn't really migrate out of Africa until we were human. and yeah the general idea of evolution is that it happens over periods of millions of years with one generation really not being any different than the one before or after. but after 100 generations, 1000 generations .0001% changes begin to add up. and the world is old enough to accommodate that. Please tell me you believe in dinosaurs.

and you realize it wasn't until we developed civilization that our population exploded? so yeah there is no fossil evidence of huge numbers of humans because we couldn't support ourselves in those numbers. but we have cave paintings in France that are 17,000 years old. triple the time of recorded history.

even then you had "near" human populations of neanderthals, Denisovans and even the pigmes. the pigmes are really the smallest case (no pun) population outside of those groups but what we are digging up (pun intended) is changing the way we look at our own history.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 8 people
#123
#123
Good post, LV. Now cool it before this gets moved to the PF and we can't talk about funny stuff anymore
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top