Christians

[stickygreenlightsabr]

Ok, so theres about 100,000,000,000 stars in the average galaxy and about 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe. This is a total of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe. Let's say that there's intelliegent life in one out of every hundred billion stars... shit, at those odds I'll probably get hit by lightning while recovering from my shark attack at the pool first!

With those odds, that means theres still another HUNDRED BILLION planets out there with intelligent life.

Do you seriously think humans 2,000 years ago had any idea what they were talking about? Haha...

[mrdevious]

a few questions....

1. Did Adam and Eve's kids have sex with each other or their parents?

2. Same goes for the critters on noa's ark.

3. Why are we all so certain mary was a virgin just on her word? I mean if she was screwin around, it sounds like a good cover to me.

4. Why would god even punish or reward us based on our actions? I mean if he's supposed to be all knowing and omnipitant and in control of everything, creater of all that is, isn't it his failing if we fuck up? (note: that was taken from Einstein, not mine).

5. Should all those poor eastern folk, as well as anyone from 1 B.C. and down really be condemned to an eternity of agony because jesus never even TOLD them of the "true way"?


and if you ask me, god's a buddhist

[GHoSToKeR]

god's a rasta.. he was high when he made giraffes

[Gumby]

[QUOTE=stickygreenlightsabr]Ok, so theres about 100,000,000,000 stars in the average galaxy and about 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe. This is a total of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe.


don't mean to be particular about it but most of those stars aren't like ours, and most of the galaxies aren't like ours. We are an exception to the rule. I agree that there is life out there and that we aren't alone... but I don't think the chances are as great as you're making them out to be. There is also a major difference between life and intelligent life, which will cut your odds down a little more...

Oh, and I'm not really sure how big that number is but I've heard that there are more stars in our galaxy than grains of sand on the earth, and that's a shit ton.

[Kid Dynamite]

Oh ya, I've always wondered this too... if there was an ark, with all the animals in the world? And the bible gives the dimensions of the ark, something like 100 yards x 70 yards x 50 yards? Where did noah keep the dinosaurs? And why didn't they write about that? Oh ya and there are almost a half a million types of beatles... did they all get there own cage? And since they were on that thing for a year, and some animals don't live longer than a year, does that mean they breed them? And isn't that insest? That's a sin right? I'd think if we had a God that was smart enough to create this world he'd think of a better way to 'start over' than that don't you?

*cough*metaphor*cough*

although i think itd be interesting to put your questions to some of those fundamentalists who take the bible as law.

maybe the ark was like the tardis (sorry yanks)

[stickygreenlightsabr]

don't mean to be particular about it but most of those stars aren't like ours, and most of the galaxies aren't like ours. We are an exception to the rule. I agree that there is life out there and that we aren't alone... but I don't think the chances are as great as you're making them out to be. There is also a major difference between life and intelligent life, which will cut your odds down a little more...

Oh, and I'm not really sure how big that number is but I've heard that there are more stars in our galaxy than grains of sand on the earth, and that's a shit ton.

You're right and wrong, the average star out there is smaller, redder, and cooler than our Sun but the average galaxy is a spiral galaxy, proportional to our own Milky Way. We are not an exception to the rule, we're a product of probability over the course of 14 billion years.

We can make the odds of intelligent life to be on 1:1,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars and my point is still made.

[stickygreenlightsabr]

Oh, and I'm not really sure how big that number is but I've heard that there are more stars in our galaxy than grains of sand on the earth, and that's a shit ton.

That's true and there's also about the same number of galaxies as there are stars. So imagine that every grain of sand on Earth is a galaxy and every one of those grains then has as many stars as the grains of sand again... if that made sense. >_<

[Gumby]

Oh i know i totally agree with you... the thing with the galaxies is that most don't have a set of rock planets and a set of gaseos planet... they are mainly, or all that we can see right now, are surrounded by larger planets made of gas, much like if Jupiter were to be were venus would be... the Keiper (sp) Belt is what makes our home a little different and gives us the protection we need for the more rockier planets.

The new trend is to try and find moons that are more like the earth because they may last less time than a planet... if these planets are big enough, and far enough from the sun the moons should be habitibal, atleast for other forms of life.

My professor at UF just found the largest sun in the galaxy to date, or is still in the process of mapping/writing about it. That to me is amazing...

[Gumby]

sticky I didn't mean to nullify your argument... i agree... i just think that life is a little more precious than numbers... we're a real big mistake if you think about the world in astronomy.

[amsterdam]

Oh i know i totally agree with you... the thing with the galaxies is that most don't have a set of rock planets and a set of gaseos planet... they are mainly, or all that we can see right now, are surrounded by larger planets made of gas, much like if Jupiter were to be were venus would be... the Keiper (sp) Belt is what makes our home a little different and gives us the protection we need for the more rockier planets.

The new trend is to try and find moons that are more like the earth because they may last less time than a planet... if these planets are big enough, and far enough from the sun the moons should be habitibal, atleast for other forms of life.

My professor at UF just found the largest sun in the galaxy to date, or is still in the process of mapping/writing about it. That to me is amazing...

your professor is going to be an extremely rich man.the world will be waiting for his book.