Hustler-1 t1_j7cp7sx wrote on February 5, 2023 at 8:41 PM

Belief is faith. Believing in aliens is no different than believing in God. Until we get out there and find out more we could just as well be completely alone vs the universe being crowded. Doesn't mean we've always been alone or will be. But we very well could be living in a period where we are the only life in the galaxy.

PerfectPercentage69 t1_j7cvu9v wrote on February 5, 2023 at 9:26 PM

Not quite. There is no evidence that God or any gods exist, so it's purely faith. We have evidence that life exists on one planet (Earth), and there is an uncountable number of planets in the universe, so the probability that alien life exists is very real and not just belief/faith. Whether we'll ever find/interact with them is a different issue.

Having been contacted by aliens in the past, though, is still purely belief.

Hustler-1 t1_j7cx4ma wrote on February 5, 2023 at 9:35 PM

The number of planets and exoplanets does little for the chance of abiogenesis.

mister-darcy-tie-me t1_j7d57cz wrote on February 5, 2023 at 10:32 PM

This sentence sounds so interesting but my google searching is just turning up articles about finding habitable planets. Is there somewhere I can read about this?

Hustler-1 t1_j7d6257 wrote on February 5, 2023 at 10:38 PM

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.08033.pdf

Alot of that goes over my head honestly so heres an explanation from the same guy in video format. https://youtu.be/PqEmYU8Y_rI

The_Dark_Passenger93 t1_j7ehfdj wrote on February 6, 2023 at 4:55 AM

We are yet to find inadmissible evidence that extraterrestrial life exists. Of course there are lots of planets out there, but it doesn't make it 100 percent certain that ET life exists. The true way of science concludes that there is a high chance of ET life existing, but we cannot rule out other possibilities yet.