Its almost certain there is. Only a religious belief that God specifically didn’t create anything else, and did so on purpose, could explain nothing else being out there, in the size of the universe.
The size of the universe also means we will never encounter it, ever. Mathematically, the odds are far greater that two individual grains of sand on planet earth would find each other.
“Only a religious belief that God specifically didn’t create anything else, and did so on purpose, could explain nothing else being out there, in the size of the universe.”
Yeah, that’s what I think.
“The size of the universe also means we will never encounter it, ever. Mathematically, the odds are far greater that two individual grains of sand on planet earth would find each other.”
Except we are not talking two grains of sand. There could be hundreds of thousands or more.
Its almost certain there is. Only a religious belief that God specifically didn’t create anything else, and did so on purpose, could explain nothing else being out there, in the size of the universe.
The size of the universe also means we will never encounter it, ever. Mathematically, the odds are far greater that two individual grains of sand on planet earth would find each other.
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Let’s look at the evidence we have. In our life friendly Solar System life is observed to be rare. On the even friendlier to life Earth, the ratio of living mass to non-living mass is 3 parts in 10 billion.
It’s not impossible to have life elsewhere, and lower forms of life are much more likely. But it took a lot get somewhat intelligent life on Earth.