Quick question about aliens

[Shawn Booth]

My question is simple, why don't people believe that aliens exist? I mean people believe in God and some believe in ghosts and spirits and whatnot, yet aliens are just living beings on other planets... Why do people believe that aliens do not exist? 

[Aear Charter]

Possibly because that would diminish the "miracle" of life, it being not just an accident or what not.

[Shawn Booth]

Yeah I don't our lives being a "miracle" but I see your point especially with all the religious people out there believing in God and all that. I believe in a God or a maker possibly advanced aliens but I think some people or a lot of people think we are the only living beings yet the universe is so big that its impossible for us to be the only living beings, there may not be other humans but they're could be aliens like the Asgard out there.

[Fiona Maccafferty]

Some people have small minds and if they cannot "see" it or "hear" about it from someone in a position of power, like a priest, they can't wrap their minds around it. The Prime Minister or whatever he's called, of Russia, has come out in recent months about how USSR Cosmonauts have been in contact with alien beings for DECADES. Check it out.

[Fiona Maccafferty]

I stand corrected, they're no longer the USSR. They're just "Russia". I am showing my age (I was 12 when they broke up, and 14 when the Bosnian war started. i am already cooked, ok??)

[Shawn Booth]

haha I believe in aliens and believe they were here if they're not still here. I believe that aliens had once or still do work at Area 51 whether they did it on their own free will or were held prisoner, is up for debate. But I believe in them and I think any rational person would too.

[Ryan Decker]

As a godless heathen. (I joke somewhat but still...) And as a skeptic. My personal opion, though I admit I have no proof for such a belief is that aliens do exist, my opinion also includes, a presumtion that said alien life we are refering to is the equivlent of sapient (which is mor than sentience but read up on it) Or something similar almost completely instict based (alien/s from Alien franchise to summarise nicely) and likely non humanoid ie, also like the alien and that the likely hood of an intelligent alien species being humanoid is less likely than some other form, I also assume carbon based life forms are more likely than others. (silicon or otherwise)

Also I believe though again without evidence, that the likelyhood of said alien civilisation being from our level to above ours less likely than below ours to equivalent, this is based on the fact it had taken 4.5 billion years for the earth and it's life to develop leaving only one realistic 4.5ish billion year slot before ours, the remainging likely required to order the universe and the galaxies and such to be able to support life.

Now of the note of humans being in contact with aliens, I'm not convinced either way, since either A they don'thave the ability to reach us and if they did we are either A like chimps and simple primates to them, or ants, something like that, we are so stupid compared to them we aren't of interest. On the note of people having actually met them, I would say if asked, no, but it is possible, just no one have proven them to exist yet nor have visted us, as much as I would like that to be the case.

On the note of the miracle of life stuff, honestly I don't see it, and I personally don't see the need for a supernatural creator, becuase I haven seen any proof of one and if one exists and has the power to create our apparent shared reality, (As I admit I cannot solve the problem of hard solipsism, and as such am making an assumption that our seemily shared reality, is in fact real and I'm not a brain in a vat.) they would convievly either A being creating more, B not bothered or having only created our universe and had no intervention in it. or D, said entity is powerful enough to sheild it intrusions into our universe as natural effects and is effective a naturalistic entity.

I also will state that I also do not claim or believe any one can justifieable claim absolute truth and as such and in science itself, when something is a scentific theory, it is provisionally true untill once again proove false or partially false.

Anyway hope some of this makes sense.

-Tom's writer.

[Jason Conway]

My personal views are two fold. In terms of a supernatural force, I believe in goodwill and Karma. I resolved a couple years ago to just be as self-less as possible, and so far I'm reaping some pretty good fortune! As for aliens... If they ARE out there, doesn't it stand to reason that they are so far away from us that they CAN'T contact us? As far as we know, our current science deems faster than light travel impossible and wormholes are merely theoretical. We couldn't just "hop over" to the next star system.

I will leave you with a powerful quote...

Arthur C. Clarke — 'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.'

[Dr. Roger Harrison]

Yeah. I PERSONALLY believe that we cannot be the end-all, be-all of the Universe. If there IS some being running the whole show, why in heck would he stop with US? Humans, particularly Westerners, aren't enlightened, and why not create "practice" beings to make a group that IS enlightened? I believe that time, and the Universe as it's manifestation, is infinite, and beings above us and below us are all exsisting at different planes of being.

I consider myself to be agnostic-that is, I believe in a higher power, but not in a traditional "G-d" or Jesus or any of that. I, too, believe in Karma or the "power of three"-What you put out into the world, you will get back three fold. I figure, as long as you are truly being a decent person, doing your part to take care of the Earth mother, and are happy, you are doing OK.

That said, aliens...just like Mulder...I want to believe!!

[John Callaghan]

[Jason Conway]