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Hi All
My name is Tom, I am 48 and work in medical laboratories. I am interested in computing, health informatics and bird watching. I enjoy walking in the country especially on Arran a great island of the Scottish west coast but unfortunately do not manage as often as before. |
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I find it incredible that anyone cannot believe that some form of life does not exist in the unimaginable vastness of the Universe other than on this small planet. It therefore follows that evolution on other small planets must have created intelligent life such as our own or perhaps not 'our own' but based on another 'chemical' similar (or not) to carbon.
At one time I would have said that I was an athiest but as you get older perhaps agnostic would be a better description but frequently I have stated that my 'God' is nature. What greater 'supreme' power could there be and therefore how can we 'believe' that we were created in its (the supreme power) own image. Nature's forms and wonders are every where for us to behold and no image can ever capture it all. We are a part, possibly an important part but only a part of what must exist.
Yes I believe we should try to make contact with other life (or else I would not be writing here)however I am not hopeful of contact in my lifetime or even posibly by grandchildren due to the vast distances involved.
The dangers are of course that of 'human' or 'other ' natures - will they be aggresive (we are), terratorial, in need of a 'new planet' due to the death of their own? I would like to think that there is an intelligent life which has developed beyond the aggression and other negative aspects of life however is that where you lose your evolutionary edge? |
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