Are We alone; fun and games (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, May 01, 2016, 19:06 (3127 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: The Drake equation is now being updated, since we now know how many stars have planets in this galaxy:-http://phys.org/news/2016-04-limits-uniqueness.html-QUOTE: "Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question—summed up in the famous Drake equation—has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science. 
"But a new paper shows that the recent discoveries of exoplanets combined with a broader approach to the question makes it possible to assign a new empirically valid probability to whether any other advanced technological civilizations have ever existed.
"And it shows that unless the odds of advanced life evolving on a habitable planet are astonishingly low, then human kind is not the universe's first technological, or advanced, civilization".-David's comment: Fun and games. How will religions react if there are other humans? After all there is fine tuning!-I am delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of the dhw Research Institute's conclusions relating to Extraterrestrial Life and Its Relevance to God. The Institute's findings are guaranteed to revolutionize human thought on the subject, as they at last bring together all known information together with all possible theories arising from that information. Readers of this website will be the first to see the complete volume, which reads as follows:-Introduction: There are x billion habitable planets in the universe. This means that life is possible on x billion planets. Only one planet is known to contain life.-Chapter 1a: If Earth is the only planet containing life, it shows that the universe was fine tuned to contain life on Earth. Only God could fine tune the universe and create life.-Chapter 1b: If Earth is the only planet containing life, and if you have x billion habitable planets in the universe, it shows that life was bound to happen some time or the other, so who needs God?-Chapter 2a: If life exists on other planets, it shows that the universe was fine tuned to contain life on different planets. Only God could fine tune the universe and create life.-Chapter 2b: If life exists on other planets, it shows that if you have x billion habitable planets in the universe, life was bound to happen many times over, so who needs God?-Epilogue: If life exists or existed on other planets, it could be/have been all sorts of life, which shows that all sorts of life are/were possible.
 
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