Aliens

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(06-09-2023, 12:14 AM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Uh, the sea hasn't even been close to explored. The Cuddle Fish would blow your mind, can turn into all kinds of shapes and there 
are tons of creatures just like them. The Easter Bunny? Hilarious, I have heard that from Atheist's before BTW. But you don't sound
like one from your other post?

Pantheist. 

Notwithstanding, the statistical probability of there being intelligent life anywhere remotely close to where humans are in their development is infinitesimally small. 

(06-09-2023, 10:22 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: We are light years more advanced and intelligent than ants yet we have plane crashes alll the time.

Considering light years measure physical distance you might what to remove yourself from the "we" there. 

Joking aside, this also enters into a subjective and philosophical debate as to what intelligence is. As humans we define intelligence based on how we as a species exist in this universe. As the sole "intelligent" inhabitants, by our own definition, of our universe we apply our standard of "intelligence", to the other inhabitants that we deem "less intelligent". I wouldn't necessarily call ants less intelligent; it is simply a different standard of intelligence than the one applied to human beings. 

To use the ants and human example, what is a plane to an ant? There is talk of unexplainable events at Skinwalker Ranch. How would an ant explain my boot stepping on the entrance to their colony? Or insecticide being applied around the foundation of my house? My position and belief, to tie this into my pantheism, is that is it extraordinarily more likely that humans would be the ant to another life form's boot, rather than humans being the Cro-Magnon, or even the Hominoidea to an extraterrestrial's modern human.