Please tell me your thoughts on UFOs and intelligent life outside earth...?

UFO means Unidentified Flying Objects. If we decide they are coming from some civilization in outer space, then they are at least partially identified. What we are saying when we say UFO is that we have no idea what they are.

There are so many possibilities of either deceit, self-deceit, hallucination, or simple mistakes caused by ignorance, that I don-t get very excited by people who talk about visits from outer space.

Could there be intelligent life outside earth? (I take it you are not referring to God, angels, and demons here). I wouldn't totally rule out the possibility. If there is, then God put it there. From everything we know about science so far, it wouldn't be possible for us to communicate with them or them to communicate with us, since the closest star having a solar system that could possibly have a planet with an atmosphere, according to astronomers, would take centuries to travel to and from. As I am neither an astronomer nor any other kind of scientist, I am not really equipped to examine those arguments.

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My faith, based on the Bible, does not exclude the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere.

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Here is a different line of reasoning:

1) If you are an evolutionist, and you calculate the chances of life evolving on earth, it was, I think one in several billions. So the same chances are there of life evolving on another planet somewhere. I would say extremely slight, but there you are. Nothing particularly arrogant at believing it didn't happen again, it would be just an opinion. And nothing particularly humble about believing it did happen. While there may be life somewhere else, I really don't think arrogance comes into the argument, as some respondents assert.

2) If you believe in an immediate creation by God, then the question is simply whether he decided to do it elsewhere too, or if his plan was simply to do it here. And again, with neither arrogance nor humility, I would assert that that simply depends on him and whatever he decided to do, as there is absolutely no information available to us, either to that effect or to the contrary.

Note: When a factor is unknown, a scientific mind will not attribute somebody's opinion to either arrogance or stupidity.

In my opinion there is an assload of life out there, only thing is; it's so far away we'll (as in this generation) never know about it. Go to google or youtube and type in, hubble ultra deep field... you actually see about 3 to 400 galaxies in the picture. Think about that for a full second, let your mind wander off from mocha chino and latte's and desk work for a minute and think.. our galaxy alone is around 50,000 lightyears across - stop again. Light Year. Traveling at the speed of light for A YEAR. Thats extraordinarily large, then there's billions upon billions of OTHER GALAXIES bigger and smaller than our own. Yes, There is probably some other people out there on a different version of yahoo answers saying, "I wonder what people will look like, can't wait to meet em."

I'm sorry if my answer seems a big rampant and disjointed, I'm a little hung over and I haven't been laid in 5 months.

Take care!

The universe is like part of a big computerized machine. It is a sub-system of a vast bank of M-branes in super-space. That bank is a powerful machine that was created through an infinite amount of time by intelligent lifeforms which evolved through the generation of random universes in history. Now, there is an almost omniscient consciousness which uses the machine to create universes such as ours on purpose. It cultivates consciousnesses this way because it values them. We live a life and the machine collects our developed consiousness at the end of it. This will go on forever.

We must define life appropriately. Life is a repeating pattern. At some point consciousness will make the pattern stronger. If life is at all possible within a given system, and given infinite time, consciousness must occur. String theory indicates that the M-brane system/structure which created our little BANG of a universe will continue to create universes infinitely. Voila.

I think it is possible. I grew up near a farm where a UFO landing was said to have occurred, I met the family/witnesses and saw the area hunted on the property for years. Those people were not crackpots and they did no try to get rich , It was in delphos Kansas and 20 years after the fact nothing grows in the circle where it landed though it is surrounded with grass.. So I think something is out there, but I have no idea what.

http://www.ufocasebook.com/Kansas.html

Of course there is, to belive otherwise would be a the pure negative of all of the scientific data that we have so far gathered, every theroy held even my the most outlandish science nut, and a smack in the face to many pilots, military servicemen/women and well respected (retired and free to speak) government officials back in the day of the weather balloon. As for religion, some have futhered it and even funded it, but the most powerful financially & politicaly ( I need not name) these days are led by men who don't like to talk about their predecesors wrongs on how the "heavens" work - no matter how much they years ago funded them - and were willing to accept the final decision - even if it woud only but change their interpretation of their scrolls and books. It is only a pure idiot that would believe that in this whole vast universe - so great that there are no bounaries at all - for us scientifically weak beings for to even ponder with our primitive brains that we are the only sentient life. Even worse is that we would think they would be the same size or form - not the size of an atom to us or size of the sun - something we wouldn't even know when confronted., or just take as a new species of clam or fungi. Pure ARROGANCE really. Its as true as global warming, take it as your politics please, but still scientific fact.

I think it overwhelmingly unlikely that there isn't any intelligent life in the universe besides that on Earth. At the same time, though, intelligent races capable of faster-than-light travel are probably exceedingly rare, if they exist at all; thus, I don't think we're likely to encounter any intelligent aliens anytime soon. UFO sightings are probably either hoaxes, cases of mistaken identity, or flukes (i.e. one of the rare advanced races in the universe acidentally crashes one of their smaller ships on Earth; doesn't mean they have any real interest in contacting us).

Doug Yurchey

High-Technology In The Bible

www.world-mysteries.com/awr_1doug1.htm

It is said that there are more stars in the universe than flakes of sand in all of the beaches of the world. Suppose there is just one green flake of sand existing on a beach somewhere in the world. You don't know which beach but you set out to find it. This might give you an idea of the immensity of the universe. Is the fluke of our being alone in the universe possible?

The question of UFOs is a different one entirely. It seems that my view will depend on who I've heard last on it. Evidence seems to be week. But those reports from airline pilots and astronauts are intriguing.

Read "Rare Earth" by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. Their basic premise is that intelligent animal life, like that which has evolved on earth, is probably extremely rare in the universe. While simpler forms of life may be widespread. Their arguments are well presented and convincing.

I don't think there are UFOs and intelligent life outside of Earth. There's not much intelligent life here either.