No. I personally dont believe it could even happen once without God's influence. Think about the difference between a single celled protien, and us. It took millions of incredibly significant, and incredibly lucky mutations for us to become who we are. I dont believe it is ridiculous to say that if you believe that macro-evolution is possible, you believe that an X-men like situation in the future is not only feasable, but inevitable.ShotYourSix wrote:
Trust me, we're not that special.weamo8 wrote:
If God had a reason for it I guess.
If there is no God, then there is no way. The odds of spontaneous life ever reaching intelligent life are so miniscule by macro-evolutionary standards, that it is almost technically impossible. If there is no God, we are the only intelligent life in the universe, and we are way more special than we could ever imagine.
But your logic seems pretty convoluted. So it could happen once but ONLY once? Gimme a freakin break. Given the billion billions of possible habitable planets, it's "almost technically impossible" for there NOT to be other intelligent life....
As far as god goes:
Odds of no other intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe: 1 / 1,000,000,000
Odds of god being a myth: 50 / 50
I would like to have met that one lucky monkey that had its brain mutated it accomplish truly intelligent thought. The monkey that paved the way for us. That monkey sired children with an unintelligent monkey to bring the potential human race about. Effectively, that original mutated monkey was twice as intelligent as any of us. We only got half its genes. That was one brilliant fucking monkey.
And if these bastards are flying around in ufos, I can guarantee you that they dont see us as intelligent life. We problably look like single-celled proteins to them. They must have gone through a lot more lucky-monkey type mutations to get the brains (or brain-like thinking utensils) they must have going for them.