But earth proves life can happen in the universe. Earth is a big piece of evidence. So will Europa if they find life inside it.
and on the same grounds - as you dismiss the idea of an intelligent designer.
that may be true of a generic designer, intelligent or not however that would not be true, the same grounds, if based on a document written by individuals in a time period the definition of their own planet was in question.
do you have a specific designer in mind or is it just a generic, undefined if even physical being of some sort. and if so then the admission of a designer would also be an admission of life throughout the universe as being true if not actually proven.
so how can you have both a designer and not have life throughout the universe. just planet Earth, christian.
No, that doesn't follow. Why would a Designer be compelled to spread life all over the universe, and that is not the topic anyway. The topic is why some people are willing to speculate on life on other planets with no proof yet disparage a belief in a Designer again, with no proof.
I believe it's already been brought up, but we do have proof of life in the universe already. We don't have the same sort of proof of a designer. In the former case, it is extrapolating from something that one knows already exists on Earth and wondering if it also exists elsewhere. In the latter case, it is something that one might believe exists but cannot prove.
So you have speculation that something already proven to exist in one place might exist in another place, contrasted with a belief in something that has not been proven to exist anywhere. Neither thing can currently be proven, but there's definitely differences.![]()
What proof is there of life in the universe.
Really? Go look in a mirror.![]()
I thought we all understood that earth was exempt from this discussion.
Then you’ll move the goalpost. Then you’ll want to see intelligent life.
Earth is a gem. As far as we see we are alone. And all the things that had to happen. The moon. Meteors. A few mass global extinctions, a few billion years and whalla.
If we find out life once existed on mars that will be more evidence.
At least today there is hope we will one day go and find out. The Catholic Church 1500 years ago really didn’t have a clue but said we were alone. They truly had no evidence. We have lots of it and statistically even though rare they say there still must be at least hundreds of other earths in the vast universe.
You’re going by what an ancient goat herder religion made up 1500 years ago when Christianity was finally organized into another fake religion to add to the list.
Jesus if the man existed was just a dude