• @entwine413@lemm.ee
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        I also agree with this statement, although it’s well within the realm of possibility that life on Earth was seeded by an ancient extraterrestrial civilization. That’s a timescale of a few billion years.

        But it’s still not as stupid as thinking that the supreme creator of the infinite universe has a personal interest in how you live your life.

        • @REDACTED@infosec.pub
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          That would make some sense if not for overwhelming proof of evolution of both, animals and nature that started out with pretty much nothing

          • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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            32 months ago

            I like to entertain the idea that something similar to mushroom spores were emitted throughout a part of space and mostly didn’t work but, where it did, life was ready to ride evolution all over again from just the basics. Just fun to think about. I’m not a witch, don’t burn me

        • @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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          The Orvil did a episode on that where they found a two dimensional universe with life in it. The bad part, three dimensional life cannot exist in two dimensions with a digestive track, it gets split into two parts.

          I can’t imagine a forth, fifth, or sixth dimension or how a three dimensional being could survive it.

    • @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      Also given the scale of time of the universe. We as humans have only existed for a small amout of time on the vast scale of things.

      Countless alien civilizations may have existed and destroyed themselves, and may others may have not come into existence yet.

    • @capybara@lemm.ee
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      02 months ago

      People who are interested in aliens and UFOs rarely solely make this argument. Often, they’ve encountered or somehow know of these aliens.

      • @dgbbad@lemmy.zip
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        42 months ago

        We are the evidence. Life can happen. It’s been proven. If it’s happening here, it’s crazy to think we are somehow special and it’s not happening somewhere else out there.

      • @pyre@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        alien doesn’t necessarily mean sapient, humanoid or even anything larger than a walnut. if you took life on earth as a sample of the universe it would be much more likely for an alien lifeform to be a plant or bacteria. and even an animal is more likely to be an insect than a mammal-like animal, much less anything humanoid.

        (someone should look into the numbers my source is just vague memory at this point)

  • @wanderwisley@lemm.ee
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    82 months ago

    Why won’t you get the vaccine? “Because idk what’s in it.” Why did you get Chinese dick and hair pills? “Because I NEED it!”

  • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    My experience with random processes: on large scales, things either happen 0 times or many times. So I find the idea that life exists in only one place pretty implausible.

    • @MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca
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      12 months ago

      That’s the rule for astronomy. If it happens once, it always happens; we just haven’t seen it yet

  • hopesdead
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    12 months ago

    By that logic they saw a god. But I’d ask if they need a starship first. Then that would confirm if they were a god.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
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    12 months ago

    Well I’ve never seen air. Nor oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, the list goes on and on. I’ve never seen Ukraine, but I do believe there is some awful shit going on over there.

    • @CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      We can weigh all of those gases. We can also blow them up. We can also look at emissions spectrums. There’s a lot of ways to test gases. That’s why we know they exist.

      As for Ukraine… People have been there. There are pictures and videos. Thousands of years of history.

      I’m not sure if you’re joking or not because I’ve seen people with similar arguments.

      • Atelopus-zeteki
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        12 months ago

        If you are not sure if I’m joking, I’m giving you permission to assume that in fact I am joking.

        • @CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          Instagram reels have made it impossible for me to tell when people are joking haha. No matter how ridiculous the position, someone on there will have it.

  • @Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    12 months ago

    Iamverysmart atheists understanding the nuances of religion and faith being an inherently irrational yet human response to existential dread challenge (impossible)

  • @Noam_Parenti@lemm.ee
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    12 months ago

    A lot of Christians will say no to believing in Aliens but because they believe God created humans and gave us the universe.

    Or in a similar vain, because aliens aren’t mentioned in the Bible they don’t think they are real.