A Question For The Evolution Supporters...

[MissileMan]

I STILL find it VERY PECULIAR that earth is the ONLY planet of it's kind,

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

 

[007]

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

Ummmm..... show me another one like it?

 

[MissileMan]

Ummmm..... show me another one like it?

Last I heard, scientists estimated the possibility of millions of planets in the universe in a similar orbit to ours. You aren't really gonna go with the "it doesn't exist because I haven't seen it" argument are you?

 

[SpidermanTuba]

Let me expand on my question a little bit then, even though you've answered well about "our solar system", but there's an entire GALAXY out there, MILLIONS of galaxy's, INFINITY actually. I STILL find it VERY PECULIAR that earth is the ONLY planet of it's kind, and what it is and HOW it got this way, is STILL surround in speculation.

Uhh, OK, do you know something I don't? How do you know the Earth is the only planet of its kind in the Galaxy ? There could well be millions upon millions of planets like Earth, there's no particular reason to assume Earth is the only one.

 

[SpidermanTuba]

Ummmm..... show me another one like it?

Show me another solar system other than our own where the ammount of water present on each planet is known.

There is no particular reason to assume that none of the planets we are detecting in orbit around other stars do or don't have water.

All we can really do right now is detect a planets minimum mass (sometimes its exact mass) and its size - and hence density - for extrasolar planets. Planets like Earth would be the hardest to detect, in fact, since they are small and light.

Perhaps you have access to astrophysical data I am unaware of.

 

[007]

Uhh, OK, do you know something I don't? How do you know the Earth is the only planet of its kind in the Galaxy ? There could well be millions upon millions of planets like Earth, there's no particular reason to assume Earth is the only one.

OK... the "devil's advocate" game is easy for anyone to play...

"SHOW ME ANOTHER PLANET JUST LIKE EARTH".

 

[SpidermanTuba]

OK... the "devil's advocate" game is easy for anyone to play...

"SHOW ME ANOTHER PLANET JUST LIKE EARTH".

Well, OK then. I thought you were serious.

 

[007]

Well, OK then. I thought you were serious.

I "was", until I ran into you.

 

[USViking]

OK... the "devil's advocate" game is easy for anyone to play...

"SHOW ME ANOTHER PLANET JUST LIKE EARTH".

The Scientific Revolution, which you
appear determined to opt yourself
out of, is only about 600 years old.

Its powers are not yet great enough
to permit a detailed view of any planet
outside our solar system.

Sorry that progress has been so slow,
but give us another 600 years, or possibly
quite a bit less, and such views may
be readily available.

 

[007]

The Scientific Revolution, which you
appear determined to opt yourself
out of, is only about 600 years old.

Its powers are not yet great enough
to permit a detailed view of any planet
outside our solar system.

Sorry that progress has been so slow,
but give us another 600 years, or possibly
quite a bit less, and such views may
be readily available.

That is no assurance that what we may or may not see, will be another planet that is just like the earth.

Sorry you've included yourself in the "I know everything" crowd. They often make fools of themselves.

 

[The ClayTaurus]

That is no assurance that what we may or may not see, will be another planet that is just like the earth.

Sorry you've included yourself in the "I know everything" crowd. They often make fools of themselves.

So you're taking the position that something is non-existent until it is presented to you through evidence?

 

[USViking]

That is no assurance that what we may or may not see, will be another planet that is just like the earth.

I am not trying to give you any such assurance,
and I do not think it likely any two planets are
identical any more than I think any two people
are identical.

I think there is a much greater chance there
are planets with oceans, though, given the
evidence cited in this thread of the existence
of water elsewhere in our solar system, and
given the probability there are more planets
even than there are visible stars.

I have never been a fan of ETs and little green
men from outer space; it would not hurt my feelings
if we were the only intelligent beings in existence.

However, there may be 100 billion galaxies with
an average of 100 billion stars each, so the
number of planets has got to be some fantastically
huge number. That results in a smaller but still
fantastically huge number of possible sites for
the development of intelligent life.

Sorry you've included yourself in the "I know everything" crowd. They often make fools of themselves.

I include myself with the crowd whose knowledge
has good breadth, if small to mediocre depth.

I haven't been a clear winner in every debate
I have taken part in in the course of about
5000 posts in two years on four boards. I have
been a clear winner in my own eyes enough
to make me want to keep going.

I don't think anyone has ever made a fool out of me,
and I don't think I have ever made a fool of myself,
even with the mistakes I have undeniably made,
since I do not know everything, or anything all that well.

 

[SpidermanTuba]

In all likelihood, the universe is filled with life. We know now that most stars have planets orbiting.

 

[LOki]

Where did water come from?

Jesus made it out of wine.

 

[bobn]

wth dude - this threads 5 months old

 

[LOki]

wth dude - this threads 5 months old

And now its born again!