The value of SETI, any? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 03:32 (4714 days ago) @ David Turell

Now we know there are lots of planets. Is there life on this galaxy? After 35 years with the galaxy 100,000 light years across, much to early to ask the question. Theologic implications? See as follows:

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/11/08/extraterrestrial-intelligence

Having completely read the article... I simply have to ask, do we really think that considering ourselves as superior to all other life is hubris? If its one thing I think I've learned from my life, it's that Fungi are the top of the food chain. (Even the best of us, will die.)

Not to mention that it is man's supposition of superiority over other men that caused Gulags and the Holocaust--not evolution, as the author is implicitly arguing. As much as I love competition, it is the assertion of superiority that time and again burns man. Why else does both the Jewish and the Christian faith--value the meek?

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"