*Yawn* The guy is a crackpot. He founded an instituteto study psychic abilities, believe he was healed of cancer by a remote dream healer and a bunch of other silly BS. Just look at his wikipedia if you're too lazy to do more thorough research. Of course he believes in ufos as an all round paranormal mind-so-open-his-brain's-fallen-out guy..
I find it quite amazing that when people ask whether or not aliens exist they look up, ponder at the enormous expanse and declare that with so much room up there surely aliens exist somewhere. Yet when a religious person looks at the complexity around them and the enormous expanse of the heavens and declare there to be a creator God they are ridiculed. Scientists have spent trillions of tax payers dollars trying to prove life exists in outer space. Every little rock with traces of rock that could have contained water are heralded as proof of life existing in space. Yet when scientist claim to believe in the Bible and its truths they are cast out (fired etc). It seems in science you are allowed to have faith in your own theories but not God. It isn't the lack of evidence it is the consequences for belief. A belief in aliens doesn't change your life, a belief in the God of the Bible does.
Polls are bullshit anyways, Penn and Teller have a great episode on themFirst off:
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Secondly:
I no longer have faith that the majority of people have any sense, logic, or intellect...
AND 88% voted YES, aliens exist. Shows how easily people can be swayed by how the poll question is worded.
One small planet (being earth), overpopulated. (anyone get me???)
What? Scientology?
Well why overpopulate one tiny small planet?
When you have a million other planets that could have life on?
is what I mean.
^That second quote is an unsurmountable non-sequitur. When a scientist says he believes there's life somewhere in the universe, he's well backed up by the law of large numbers (a theorem in statistics which states that, if with an albeit small probability, some event occurs, when you take a big enough sample, the event is bound to occur - the probability of its occurrence approaches 1). We know the probability of life existing is not zero (after all, we are here!). So, given quadrillions of galaxies with trillion star systems each, in the observable universe alone, you'd expect life to exist somewhere. This is an informed belief, and has nothing to do with faith. Especially given the fact that the religion boundary has been slowly pushed back away from reality. I don't intend to start a religion debate here, believe whatever you want. The fact is that religion has no place within science and I believe almost every scientist and religious person would agree.
On topic: this guy is nuts.
The fact is that religion has no place within science and I believe almost every scientist and religious person would agree.
dont talk bullshit if you have no idea about the science that comes with it