tornadocam : Expand your way of thinking, We are the only planet in OUR solar system capable of substantiating HUMAN life(there are hundreds of differen't galaxy's and solor systems we find new ones mostly everyday),but we aren't taking about humans when it comes to "aliens" which is a retaliative term so i'll say other species. Other species wouldn't need in theory the same gases, resources etc. humans need to be able to survive and thrive. And the evidence of alien life is abundant, Look the how technology has advanced all of a sudden in the past 30 years, we literally went from horse and buggy to cars and jets in literally less than 40 years historically that's impossible to have such a leap in such a very very limited time. But don't take my word for aliens existing and interacting with the human species to further mankind how about the defense prime minister of Canada addressing congress about the several alien species we have diplomatic relationships with(when your ready to expand your mind watch)- https://youtu.be/Lg7QpWyY0K0

Technology was able to develop and expand more quickly and vastly in the past 30 years, because people learned how to settle differences and work together. People learned how to think outside the box and make their dreams come true. The combination of all the world's great minds work in harmony to create this future. Philosophers, inventors, scholars, teachers, scientists, politicians, film producers, novelists, writers, bloggers, builders, farmers, astronomers, doctors, and many other kinds of people come together and share ideas and experiment with discoveries to create amazing things. It may sound narcissistic, but it's not. Because it is an example of what humans can do when they aren't divided against each other by all of the factions, parties, groups of people who have an opinion and specifically stand against a certain other opinion. This is a time where people don't just start a war to expand their country, or to loot it and get richer. When people aren't wasting their time thinking about how to conquer the world, they find more time to think, and use their imaginations. This is why technology has come as far as it has. Because technology has become a home for communication, which allows people to bond, and work together. This is a time where anybody can help anybody and great things can come out of it. Whether there were aliens involved or not, the amazing part is that in less than 30 years, humans were capable of understanding and communicating with beings that nobody has ever encountered. And if not it is still amazing that  humans have come so far all on their own. I stand firm to my belief that there are no such other-worldly life forms. Humanoid, plant-like, microbe-like, or anything. Come back to this thread in 50 years, in 2065, and then tell me if you still believe what you believe. Because I am willing to bet my entire life that by that time, other-worldly life will still not have been discovered. The only thing that will be discovered, is the true insignificance of humans in an infinite universe of only us. Technology may prove to be more harmful than what it is worth. And when that happens, then come and tell me your great news. I'll be waiting. I promise.

tornadocam : Humans evolved on this planet so of course we're built to survive here. Why is this all ways mistaken as some sort of argument for anything??? Humans came into existence long after this planet did and thinking that's a proof of a religious figure is just plain self-serving.

TheBWoods15 : Technically speaking, an "alien" is the same thing as a foreigner, and that any life from another planet would have to travel to earth before it's actually an alien. They have however, confirmed life on Mars. They actually found fossilized bacteria. Not as exciting as slender, reptile like, intelligent life landing on devils tower, but scientifically speaking, extra terrestrial life has been confirmed to exist at one point or another. Also, Eternity doesn't count as an alternate dimension? My theory on this subject has always been that time is not just a unit of measurement, but our dimension as a whole. That it doesn't actually flow, but that we pass through it and not the other way around, and that Eternity, in which Heaven and Hell exist, is where we depart for when time has ended. It has also been proven that people did evolve, just not from apes. That's just silly.

m0ssb3rg935 :

Life on Mars has not been confirmed. They have found many things that make it more and more likely that there used to be life there, but no living organism or fossils have been discovered. It's also possible that a comet struck the area and that comet had life on it at one point. The evidence we see that makes it likely life was in the area would then be due to the comet.

You're idea of eternity is close to mine, though not quite. Time is certainly a component of the physical universe, and if you do not have a body and still exist then you're outside of time. But I don't think heaven and hell are non-physical realms, and I don't think we go there when we die. I think we only go there after Resurrection and we get new bodies.

I think we evolved from apes.

Txgangsta : I misunderstood what I was reading. It didn't register that is said they THOUGHT it was fossilized bacteria, and had not been confirmed as such. Your theory on afterlife also makes sense. The one thing I am hung up on though is the idea that man evolved from apes. I could see it feasible that some kinds of apes evolved, or devolved depending on how you look at it, from a very early humanoid race, but I can't picture Adam and Eve being apes.

m0ssb3rg935 :

I still think it's likely that there is life outside this solar system. Very likely, in fact. But it simply hasn't been confirmed.

As for evolution, I'll go further than just apes. We evolved from chemicals. There were chemicals present on earth, and they interacted in a special way, and those chemicals became microbes, and those became more and more complex as a means to compete with the changing environment and other microbes. They started becoming multicellular and formed even more complex organisms. Then through the same natural processes that changed the chemicals into life, we arrived at human beings.

Adam and Eve were not apes. They are just two people in the Bible. If you look at Genesis 4:14, you'll realize that Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel were not the only people on the planet. Cain was afraid that those other people would kill him.

Moreover, if you know Hebrew, you'll see that "Adam" and "Eve" are not names until chapter 4. "Adam" just means "mankind" or "the man" and "Eve" just means "life-giver". You should interpret the Adam and Eve passages drastically differently. These are only 2 of the errors with your interpretation.

Txgangsta : That's not how evolution works. We did not evolve from apes, we evolved from a common ancestor and the results are all of the different kinds of primates which humans are included.

Don't be too sure, they could be a whole lot of universes out there, we aren't the only universe out there, there is also some parallel universes out there, like they could be a parallel universe where eating vegetables is unhealthy and eating junk food and fast food is healthy or another parallel universe where The IB hates cabbages, or they could be another universe that has been taken over by robots. So, don't think we're the only Universe out there.

Txgangsta :
NameEntry : Nope, all of humanity we're evolved from trees.

NameEntry :

Primate, monkey, ape, whatever. It's all the same. I'm not writing for publication here, so please interpret my vocabulary with generosity.

Txgangsta : I understand this but many people out there think that evolution says humans came from apes, meaning humans came from actual apes and they never bother to make this distinction.
That's why I make it a point to make the distinction clear.