Atheists why is there no life on other planets?

Come on now. Light travels from there to here. It takes millions or billions of years, That would mean something as simple as a radio signal has had a very long time to reach us. Our world is quite young by most geological estimates, so the time has been there. We have been 'listening' for decades. If as you say, life created itself on this rock, that no god was needed, that it happened all by itself, then out of the countless worlds, then life should be everywhere.

But we see it no where but here.

Explain the lack of life if all it takes is time. If our world has had time for sludge to turn to bacteria, to cells, to fish, to amphibians to plants to everything else, surly there has been enough time and enough places for it to have developed over and over and over again in this vast universe.

How would you know another life form is similar to you and interested in looking if there is life on other planets? How do you know they would have invented radio waves? Maybe we are daily bombarded with signals we don't have instruments to analyze? How do you know it even thinks on the same time scale than you?

In addition as you point out, light takes millions or billions of years to come here. Were there any humans sending radio signals out from earth millions or billions of years around? And particularly if there millions or billions of inhabited planets around and they all send radio signals like crazy that would pretty much scramble any signal. Go into a room and switch to a million of different radio stations at the same time and see what you can hear...

Given the size of the universe we have looked at basically nothing of it.
It's like saying cheese don't exist because you happen to have none in your personal fridge...

scientifically,
the odds of there being life on a given planet are slim to none.
Earth is the one known example pr oven to break those odds.
Most planets like necessary endearment conditions such as the organic compounds.
You're question my friend is out of a pure lack of scientific knowledge.

What makes you think there isn't life everywhere? Have you been to other planets to check? You have got to be a Poe, right?

We are a VERY primitive civilization and ha vent even scratched the surface(or depths) of our own oceans let alone the universe around us... More than 2000 years of existenceCend were not much further than where we began. We wont even get out of you own galaxy for thousands and thousands of years the way were going now. Its all out there... we just have to find it

the odds are that life is quite common. i personally believe that intelligent, technological life is very rare. it takes so many "right" conditions over a great length of time to allow life to progress beyond "pond scum".

The other planets in our solar system are either too hot or too cold as a result of their distance from the sun. There are other factors to consider: gravity, the presence of water, atmosphere, carbon etc. Even when given time, life is unlikely to evolve on planets that does not possess all the necessary conditions to support it.

However, it is speculated that there are easily tens of thousands of planets having similar qualities to Earth in being potentially hospitable to life as close as a thousand light years away. But as the distance in 'light years' suggests, 'close' is a major understatement.
Positively not close enough to observe and make contact with our present technology and means of communication.

Ours is one planet of many that exist within our solar system. Our sun is amongst billions of stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is amongst a hundred billion in the observable universe.
Imagine the number of planets that could be in existence within and outside of our estimations.

Thus, who is to say conclusively there can be no life on another planet somewhere in the universe and that they cannot have evolved on their own as did we ourselves?


One must realize the sheer arrogance in believing in a creator god that not only created an entire universe for, but also takes personal interest in the affairs of individual organisms which inhabit a single planet that is in universal terms 'less than a speck of dust'.