We only get one chance in life to see something this cool.

submitted by radicalcentristNational Centrism from (self.debatealtright)

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

it's extremely unlikely that advanced life developed elsewhere in the universe before humans

Why?

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Something to do with the order of elements in the big bang. Idr agree with this materialist shit but even from that perspective he's wrong

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/08/25/491307739/are-we-the-earliest-intelligent-life-in-the-universe

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Another funny thing about this fantasy of woke genius aliens scolding humans for their backwardness is that the assumption extraterrestrial life exists, much less intelligent extraterrestrial life, is completely baseless. Not to mention how farcical it is to imply that an alien species would have any particular attachment to Enlightenment rationalism - an ideology which is extremely aberrant, uncommon and historically marginal even for the human species itself.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This new mythology requires arguably far greater leaps of faiths than any major religion in history yet it's championed confidently by atheists.

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's a weird situation. The entire science lover culture is like this. Dawkins for example constantly gets made fun of for being an ignorant, rabid doctrinaire.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Dawkins for example constantly gets made fun of for being an ignorant, rabid doctrinaire.

I had no idea this was a thing lmao

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is not common knowledge because the good anti-Dawkin polemics rarely get attention in the public sphere, but demolishing him and the other New Atheists seems to be a pretty popular exercise in certain intellectual circles. Plenty of scholars who specialise in religious studies or comparative religion consider him to be a complete clown who does not even understand his object of criticism.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Plenty of scholars who specialise in religious studies or comparative religion consider him to be a complete clown who does not even understand his object of criticism.

That seems about right actually