Out of the millions of possiblities...why?
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I would love to travel forward in time and see just how our wonderful island paradise has changed. I would also travel back in time to see how wonderful and simple life in Hawai'i actually was. Aren't you curious about that?\n\nHawai'i no ka oi bruddah!!!
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Anyone (American or not) who believes that life just popped out of nowhere is just shutting their eyes to the obvious. Look at all the animals that exist today. Did they just suddenly appear and were dropped into thier perfect enviroment? Look at the animals of the past like the dinosaurs. Were they just born as giants or did they start out as little reptiles that eventually grew and grew to their eventual massive sizes. Where did all those cave paintings come from? Or all of those bones and skulls of different types of hominids. I am an American and although I have a religious upbringing, I also have an open mind to reality.  I also don't believe that the percentage is growing. In fact I think the number is actually shrinking. It is now taught in more of our schools and colleges, it is more and more shown in different types of media, there are now more museums that are exhibiting the fossil records and giving scientific explanations. Sure the bible belt of america is still mostly closed to this type of thinking but that is not where the heart of our science is coming from anyway.
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Somepeople are not convinced anything exists until they see it.  With many of the things about being rare or intangible, you may never get those people on your side.  Others dont believe because of culture or upbrining.
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Does it mean it doesn't, it's a fifty fifty chance. I prefer to believe that it does in fact exist. That is GOD, and I am sure glad He does, this world is bad enough with all the non believers who don't think that there are consequences for their actions, could you imagine if no one believed? What an awful state we would be in.
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I think we have first the abiity to choose. What good would it do to have options if we didn't know what to do with them? And yes, I think things need a "reference point" so to speak in order to "exist." Yet when God created the world He created everything else before he created man. Maybe this question is not as simple as it seemed when I first read it. Oh dear.
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Good question but I have to say that messing with the universe is rather impulsive and risky. Perhaps we should look to simpler projects like over population or world peace?\n\n*wink*
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for the 1000000 th time...\n\nthe answer is NO.
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heres the deal.\nevolution only shows what MIGHT have happened if everything DID happen by RANDOM CHANCE. the chance of one protien molicual forming by random chance is 1/10^65.\nthats a small number.\nand thats only 1 simple molicule- not to metion the hundreds of other more complex ones.\nwould you believe me if I told you I saw a tornado go through a junk yard and randomly put to gether a shiny red caddy?every little detail from the headlights to the liscens plate?perfectly? probably not.\nbut thats what evolution is-- something happened randomly and put together this perfectly running,accuatly designed planet so that if 1 thing were to be off by more then 5 degrees life would end?\n\nand another thing--evolution doesnt show how the universe started.AND there is no proof that the universe is expanding(supporting the big bang theory).there is no way to show the stars and galexies are moving away from each other, is there?\nevolution just doesnt make logical sence because according to it, the universe has just been exploding and contracting for all of time and it did not have a beginning or end, which everything has to have.\nif we looked at how the Bible tells us, it would make a lil more sence.it says God created everything (intellegent design) INCLUDING TIME.He created all the dimentions and banned us to them to see if we would trust Him or not.\nand the Bible says clearly "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" it doesnt say He might have, or there is some proof that, or there is a possibility He could hev, it says He DID.and if you dont belive the Bible, think about this--it say that Gods word (the Bible) will last forever... and so far it is the oldest most sold book of history, not to mention the most prooven.\nspeaking of proof, ever wondered why there seems to be no proof of God? chck this out.\nMatthew 16:4 (New International Version)\nNew International Version (NIV)\nCopyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society\n\n    \n4A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away.\n\nproof enough?\n\nand one more thing-- if you call someone names to try to make them and their ideas look less then you, it obviously means that you are trying to cover up something... such as your stubborness to your disprooves hypothosis' that YOU want to believe.\n\nAnd when you die and God says,"I dont know you" just remember i tried to warned you.\n\n\nfoot note to dvdi14-- thats not evolution.same thign with the so called moth evolution--there was smog in englend which darkend the trees so the whit moths showed up better an got eaten more and the brown moths were camoflaged.
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Using mathematics to determine the chances of life elsewhere in the universe, one estimate determines that there are approximately 10^75 advanced societies.  If true, then it is very likely that there is life beyond earth – even advanced life forms.\n\nSteve\n:-D
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Do you think that those things did not exist before people asked about them?\nOf course they did!\nIt is better for people to be properly informed about possible risks and make informed choices.
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well, isn't this the core question of the human race? Is there a point to it all? From a bigger perspective (like the billions of years old unimaginably big universe perspective) I'd say probably not as we're very finite beings and the time and space we take up in the universe at large doesn't really register as more than a blip, but on a personal level there are many things I aspire to like expanding my knowledge, sharing love and warmth, experiencing interesting sensations (think food, music, reading, sex, etc) and seeing as much of this vast and fascinating universe as I possibly can and I try my best to do good by others.\n\nJust because I do not believe in the human soul, the god(s) and an afterlife doesn't mean I don't intent to get the most out of the short timespan I've been given in this bizarre place. Although I must admit it is sometimes hard to resolve the human ego that screams 'I am the center of the universe' with the rational knowledge that in the grand scheme of things I do not really matter. But everybody should be allowed a crisis of faith from time to time, we're all human after all.
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To be honest it is not about believing it or not it is about thinking outside of what we have always been told.  More about possibilities.
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If extraterrestrial life exists (i surely think so) it is probable that it isn't disclosed to avoid mass hysteria (remember the chaos caused by the original release of the War of the worlds radio show???). Or simply to avoid foregin powers to get a grip on the cutting edge technology.\n\nKeep watching the sky dude!
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I am here.   There are thousands of people out there.  Some questions get a lot of answers and some get none.  The people are out there.
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I once read a theory that the universe is so big, that there's a chance that not only is there another earth somewhere, but there's probably so many that there's bound to be one exactly like ours.  The universe is huge beyond our present ability to comprehend, and it would be highly ignorant to think that with all the building blocks of life floating around out there that life doesn't exist somewhere else.  Whether we ever find it or not is another question.
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IMO, fb2kool is on to something.  Luck is used to describe a short series of events that appear to deviate from the average (when they simply contribute to the average).  The strange thing about probability is that the "average" never seems to happen.
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We already now know that the birth of our Universe may very well be a random quantum fluctuation, and that these quantum events are based on probability, not "cause and effect".\n\nBut the human drive to discover the "Ultimate Truth" is not contigent upon there being a sensible answer, or even an answer. It is simply not enough to just exist, or accept what has been given to us (as someone has suggested). If God exists, then God has given us the desire to seek knowledge, wisdom, and truth. To know the Universe is to know God.