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Drake on Drake: ET Life A Certainty
astro writes "Frank Drake, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute applies Occam's Razor to his own Drake equation: 'Life should appear very frequently on other Earth-like planets. There will be microbial life nearby the solar system.' The simplest scenario is that 'Not Life' has a nearly identical number of assumptions as 'Life.' The contrasting view is that experimentation can prove it--but how many times did life independently create itself while the Earth changed through the whole spectrum of what biological forces might conjure up elsewhere. A sample size of 1 is in fact an experimental sample size of many--just here during Earth's climatic history."
Yes, I know that I misspelled "there." Yes, I know that I didn't use an end-quote. Yes, I know that Francis Drake was an explorer/pirate. Please don't comment on these mistakes. Maybe next time I'll use "preview."
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Regardless of your opinion on et life, one thing is certain. My SETI@Home team is better than yours. ;)
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Typical Atheist.
You sir, are an ignorant fucking moron.
Typical answer of someone who just lost an argument. The moment one resorts to personal attacks, one has already lost the argument.
Personally, I find it offensive that you assume all Atheists are morons.
I am an Atheist. What does that mean? It simply means I don't believe in a god. Not yours, not someone else's. None. That's what the word A-theist means. Christians are Monotheists. They believe in one god. Comments like yours, are one of the reasons I don't like those who think their beliefs are better than mine.
Remember the 11th commandment: Thou shalt keep thy religion to thy self.
Religion and science both strive to do the same thing: explain who we are, where we came from, where we're going and why we're here. The difference is that science doesn't have the arrogance of claiming to already have the answers.
No matter what... this is still off-topic.
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> And anyway, nowhere in the Bible does it mention ET life. If there really were "aliens" then Jesus would have had to come and die for THEIR sins too. No alien-Jesus, no aliens.
> It sounds like this guy is just some crackpot...
Oh, the irony.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade