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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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I find it interesting that nobody will address this point: many atheists claim they do not believe in God because there is no scientific evidence of any God's existence. At the same time, many atheists do believe in extraterrestrial life. My question is why? What's the difference? There is absolutely no scientific evidence of extraterrestrial life at this point in time. It's entirely theoretical. It's a belief. How can you condemn one, while subscribing to another? Do you take a scientific approach to these kind of questions, or not?
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Likely one one wants to touch this because God and aliens are two different, questions.
Science has provided a plausible (if incomplete) theory about how Earth's life evolved, and has outlined theories as to what is needed for this to happen elsewhere, even picked out other locations with the highest odds.
God has offered ZERO proof that he exists, and in fact has had claims made for his existence that were later proven impossible, or untruths.
That's the difference.
Life exists here on earth, there are other planets in our own solar system that at one time had environments that look as though they could have been similar to earth. If, for instance Mars, was at one time much like earth, with an atmosphere and liquid-state surface water, then it is probable that carbon-based life could have arisen there as well. Maybe not proliferation or much complexity, but it's plausible. Extrapolate the probability that this happened not once, but TWICE just in the same solar system across the whole of the known universe and its statistically ignorant to say that life developed NOWHERE else. It's not faith. Its fucking math. No, we don't have proof because we don't YET have the tools to observe it elsewhere. If it happened once, it CAN happen again.
If God is responsible for creating earth and all things on it, why didn't he hop next door to Mars and do it again? Doesn't it seem odd that he created this HUGE universe, and then chose a SINGLE chunk of rock to play with?