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Originally from Albuquerque, I've been in Orlando Florida for the last 10 years. I'm a network engineer and programmer and work for several clients on a variety of projects. I'm currently playing with Linux systems and would actually like to setup a Beowulf cluster to process SETI data units (that's a hint for anyone who knows anything about that to email me :)
Being a father to 4 children doesn't leave much time for hobbies, but when there's opportunity, I like to play my guitar and go swing dancing. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think non-intelligent life [microbial bacteria, etc.] is probably as common in the universe as water is on this planet.
In spite of evidence that the universe started with the "Big Bang", you must still ask the question, "What created/caused the big bang?" What caused anything? Descartes famous statement, "I think therefore I am" was simply his way of avoiding the maddening dillema of simple existence. In other words, he was saying, "Look, I'm aware of myself, therefore I exist. Don't ask me to explain existence." He didn't even touch the reall issue: What is the cause of the universe? And once you've answered that question, tell me what is the cause of the cause, ad infinitum.
The existence or non-existence of intelligent life will tell me a lot about the nature of God (AKA, the creator of this universe). A universe in which intelligent life, capable of questioning it's very existence, pops up all over the place makes more sense to me. However, I don't think His plan will suffer any major setback due to my perplexity. On the other hand, maybe this is all just frivolous busy work. Given the microscopic nature of our life spans, we are all going to know the answers soon enough - or be completely oblivious to the questions, depending on you spiritual orientation.
To all of my Christian brethren out there, many of whom I have heard state something like the following: "The Bible doesn't mention anything about other beings on other planets. That's a pretty important thing to leave out of the Bible.", I have this to say in reply. There's a lot about the universe God didn't tell us in the Bible. Like the fact that the world is round, the lights in the night-time sky are distant suns, sub-atomic structure, the nature of space-time, etc. What He did try to teach us through the Bible was the most important thing we need to know in living our lives: Love |
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