How likely are we to find extraterrestrial life?

[otseng]

Many NASA scientists think we're on the verge of finding alien life.

Ellen Stofan, NASA's former chief scientist, said in 2015 that she believes we'll get "strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years."

Many astrophysicists and astronomers are convinced that it's not a matter of if we'll find life — it's when.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-pl ... de-2019-11

Questions for debate:
- How likely are we to find extraterrestrial life?
- What empirical evidence is there that any extraterrestrial life exists?
- What are the implications if extraterrestrial life exists or do not exist?

[marke]

Many NASA scientists think we're on the verge of finding alien life.

Ellen Stofan, NASA's former chief scientist, said in 2015 that she believes we'll get "strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years."

Many astrophysicists and astronomers are convinced that it's not a matter of if we'll find life — it's when.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-pl ... de-2019-11

Questions for debate:
- How likely are we to find extraterrestrial life?
- What empirical evidence is there that any extraterrestrial life exists?
- What are the implications if extraterrestrial life exists or do not exist?

Marke: I assume atheistic scientists believe there is no possibility of God's existence or the existence of alien life in space because nothing has yet been seen by human eyes to allow beliefs in the possibility of their existence.

[Diagoras]

[marke]

[armchairscholar]

[William]

[mgb]

[Replying to William in post #185]
"By their fruits ye shall know them." Whitley Strieber in his book Transformation describes how the room was 'infested with evil' when they arrived. And there are many such accounts of violent abductions etc.

"Supernatural" is not a necessary concept for religious people. There does not need to be anything beyond 'natural' in God. But it may be that God's nature is so advanced it seems incomprehensible. All that is necessary is 'extraordinary nature'.

[Diagoras]

[marke]

[Diagoras]

[Replying to marke in post #188]

You have that argument backwards, actually.

[marke]

[Replying to marke in post #188]

You have that argument backwards, actually.

Marke: How so? Do you believe science has proven God does not exist?