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I think u just answered ur own question lol. I agree with what u say too.
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No, none.
So there are billions of stars and billions of galaxies. So what. There are multi-trillions of sand grains right here on earth. Do you think any of them have your name etched onto them microscopically by the forces of nature? Of course not. Yet your name is only a few letters long, whereas the chemistry of life is BILLIONS of "characters" long.
If something is improbable enough then the weight of numbers cannot make it happen.
It is exceedingly naiive to think that mere numbers are going to guarantee that something which has happened once, will happen again.
Kepler and SETI are taking a statistical sample of the universe. They have found nothing to encourage the notion that any life ( let alone "intelligent" life) exists anywhere in space. Life and science are ultimately all about statistics. You cannot look everywhere, but if you look enough places it gives you confidence in the ultimate conclusion. That conclusion is that we are alone.
It's a big universe, but the chemistry of life is so complex, and it's requirements are so particular that even the enormity of the universe does not guarantee that it has happened again.
Sure there "could" be life somewhere and we have just never detected it. Just like there might just be a grain of sand somewhere in all the desserts on Earth with your name on it. I challenge you to find it. So if you cannot find it, how can you say it exists? It's existence becomes sheer fantasy.
So too if we fundamentally never can or will ever detect life anywhere in space, it is quite correct to assert that it simply does not exist. Once we accept that outcome, it frees us for more worthwhile pursuits.
The evidence, the theory, the philosophy: everything except Hollywood is telling us the same thing:
So there are billions of stars and billions of galaxies. So what. There are multi-trillions of sand grains right here on earth. Do you think any of them have your name etched onto them microscopically by the forces of nature? Of course not. Yet your name is only a few letters long, whereas the chemistry of life is BILLIONS of "characters" long.
If something is improbable enough then the weight of numbers cannot make it happen.
It is exceedingly naiive to think that mere numbers are going to guarantee that something which has happened once, will happen again.
Kepler and SETI are taking a statistical sample of the universe. They have found nothing to encourage the notion that any life ( let alone "intelligent" life) exists anywhere in space. Life and science are ultimately all about statistics. You cannot look everywhere, but if you look enough places it gives you confidence in the ultimate conclusion. That conclusion is that we are alone.
It's a big universe, but the chemistry of life is so complex, and it's requirements are so particular that even the enormity of the universe does not guarantee that it has happened again.
Sure there "could" be life somewhere and we have just never detected it. Just like there might just be a grain of sand somewhere in all the desserts on Earth with your name on it. I challenge you to find it. So if you cannot find it, how can you say it exists? It's existence becomes sheer fantasy.
So too if we fundamentally never can or will ever detect life anywhere in space, it is quite correct to assert that it simply does not exist. Once we accept that outcome, it frees us for more worthwhile pursuits.
The evidence, the theory, the philosophy: everything except Hollywood is telling us the same thing:
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