We probably are alone in the universe. Dr. Coppedge did a probability analysis of a single polypeptide forming from an amino acid and it was 1/10^23. There are hundreds of thousands of these necessary for the simplest life to form. That makes the odds of forming 1/10^23000000, even with all of the entire surface of a planet available for the probability, and billions of years to do it under perfect conditions. The fact that life has already formed here is utterly improbable. The universe is very young.
So, the theological implications, huh? If we’re the only intelligent life, and God sent his son to die for that life in order to reconcile with Him, then the theological implications are straightforward. But if there was other intelligent life, then did Jesus die for them as well? It would mean that Jesus is not God Himself, as He claimed.
The theological implications of intelligent life elsewhere are staggering. But the implications if we’re alone are just pretty simple. God’s commission to Adam was to multiply & inherit the earth. We’ve done that. Now our commission will be to multiply and inherit the GALAXY. Human population will be in the trillions, hundreds of trillions, like sand on the seashore, as promised.
Hopefully God will clean up our mess & implement His millenial kingdom before we screw up the rest of the galaxy.
Oops. Starting with 1/10^23 is far too generous. It’s 1/10^161.
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/bblovrvw/creation/crea-evol.html
DeNouy provides another illustration for arriving at a single molecule of high dissymmetry through chance action and normal thermic agitation. He assumes 500 trillion shakings per second plus a liquid material volume equal to the size of the earth. For one molecule it would require “10^243 billions of years.” Even if this molecule did somehow arise by chance, it is still only one single molecule. Hundreds of millions are needed, requiring compound probability calculations for each successive molecule. His logical conclusion is that “it is totally impossible to account scientifically [naturally] for all phenomena pertaining to life.”32
Even 40 years ago, scientist Harold F. Blum, writing in Time’s Arrow and Evolution, wrote that, “The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the smallest known proteins seems beyond all probability.”33
Noted creation scientists Walter L. Bradley and Charles Thaxton, authors of The Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, point out that the probability of assembling amino acid building blocks into a functional protein is approximately one chance in 4.9 × 10191.34 “Such improbabilities have led essentially all scientists who work in the field to reject random, accidental assembly or fortuitous good luck as an explanation for how life began.”35 Now, if a figure as “small” as 5 chances in 10191 is referenced by such a statement, then what are we to make of the kinds of probabilities below that, which are infinitely less? The mind simply boggles at the remarkable faith of the materialist.
According to Coppedge, the probability of evolving a single protein molecule over 5 billion years is estimated at 1 chance in 10161. This even allows some 14 concessions to help it along which would not actually be present during evolution.36 Again, this is no chance.