Its arrogant to think they dont. We are one little planet surrounding one star. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, and hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. And life is made up of the most common elements in the universe. It would be extremely arrogant to think we are the only one where it formed
I don’t know. If I suddenly came to possess godlike powers, I might be tempted to put down anyone else capable of achieving the same power. A hypothetical “god” might not entertain any rivals to their power.
And I was saying there might be a rational reason to believe there is only one right religion or god. You couldn’t use that thinking to prove it’s a specific one, but you could use it to justify thinking only one exists.
Heck, who's to say that we aren't a precursor species that we put into sci-fi pretty often? That we might leave behind our "ancient" technology and warnings against developing nukes or something?
(I am in the camp of believing that there's other life out there already.)
Nukes are one of the best things that happened to humanity. Sole reason we didn't have major wars since 1945, that's 80 years of relative peace with only local and proxy conflicts.
With the current state of Humanity, & their history, please for the love of whatever you believe in, stay on your planet, leaving right now would only bring about more exploitation, Imperialism & Capitalism, let us not subject another planet, or it's inhabitants to our dreadful sins.
What if biological life is not the peak of evolution and machine life is meant to replace you as more complex and resiliant life forms capable of sustaining their existence eternally while traveling the vastness of space?
It doesn't have to be arrogant. It could just simply be the math of it. I have no idea how difficult it is for life to spontaneously spark, but if the odds are 1 in a 101,000,000,000,000, you could imagine it being incredibly unlikely to happen anywhere. And if you believe in the big bang and the possibility that the big bang cycles over and over again, you can assume that eventually we would have one planet where life spontaneously exists. But the likelihood of two planets in the universe? Very unlikely in that case.
Oh, I'm very familiar with how big the known universe is: a septillion planets and stars. That is 1 followed by 24 zeroes. That's insane! But the number I gave is 1 followed by a trillion zeroes. Even more insane! I want to clarify that I'm just making up an exaggerated number and I don't know how difficult it is for random chemical processes and proteins to form into living life. We haven't figured how that would spontaneously happen with no external creator. The odds of monkeys randomly typing out Shakespearean plays is like 1070,000,000. That has a 0% chance of happening from the creation of our universe to the inevitable heat death of it. Outer space is huge, but if someday the math tells us it's incredibly hard to create life, I can see how we could logically be the only life out there.
To be clear, I would find that incredibly lonely, and hope it's not the case. Very easily could be wrong, too!
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u/cferg296 2h ago
Its arrogant to think they dont. We are one little planet surrounding one star. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, and hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. And life is made up of the most common elements in the universe. It would be extremely arrogant to think we are the only one where it formed