Looking at the Hypothesis for Life in Outer Space
The other day, I was reading some news in the science section, and I came across this article about the first observation of an exploding star. In the article, it makes an remarkable comment, "Many of the elements necessary for life and its accessories, like carbon, oxygen, iron and gold, are produced in a thermonuclear frenzy during the final stages of these explosions, which then fling them into space to be incorporated into new stars, new planets, new creatures " ( NY Times ).
It appears the NY Times is convinced there is alien life on other planets. And they are not the only ones, the manager of exhibits (Lisa Curtis) at the Space Science Institute said, "Microbes are the most common life form on Earth, and it's highly likely that microbes are what we'll discover on another planet," said Lisa Curtis, exhibits manager for the Space Science Institute." What she means is our solar system in particular one could assume "Mars". There has been a huge push to find microbes on Mars since we now know little green men don't live there. It's not surprising Lisa's "confident" endorsement of finding micro life on other planets because that means more money for the agency. It's not to say, she really doesn't believe it, no doubt she does, but the facts say otherwise.
It seems odd, that some (not all) believe aliens were made the same way as humans and animals on the Earth from the same chemicals as the evolutionist model claims. When it comes to evolutionist models generally scientists believe in the hypothesis as fact, unless proven otherwise. If the discovery defies any known evolutionist model generally they study more for further explanations (to avoid any intelligent design conclusion) but it's always in the realm of naturalism. So Lisa's logic is, if humans were able to evolve from dead chemicals than aliens could do the same thing. Only one can conclude there is a lot of pre-existing beliefs on this subject.
Many millions if not billions of dollars have been spent on searching for other life forms.
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