Friday, July 07, 2006

What does Science Say?

1. Never a single contact with an "ET"

In 1900, the French Academy of Science offered a prize of 100,000 francs for the first person to make contact with an alien civilization... as long as the alien was not from Mars, because the academy was convinced that Martian civilization was an established fact!

Since then, not a trace of "little green men," or any kind of life for that matter, has been found on any of the planets that our probes have explored, including Mars.

Despite this fact, a great number of astronomers think that since life supposedly evolved here on Earth, it must have evolved near one of the many stars out there. Around the world, SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) researchers have scanned the sky, looking in vain for signals from intelligent beings. Despite all the listening, on thousands of frequencies over many years, nothing indicating intelligent life has ever been heard.

Sign of Design:When somone asks if God could have used evolution, the answer really depends upon what they mean by "God." Most notions of "god" are mental constructs designed to fit what one would like to believe.

3 comments:

Elizabeth Pruett said...

Zac,
I think it is funny that they would not give the prize to someone who talked to Martians. I don’t think the alien's feelings could be hurt though. They don’t exist!

Great post!
Elizabeth

Kaitlin said...

Great post Zac! I really liked that Sign of Design.

Anonymous said...

Zac,

Thanks for the address, I look forward to reading your posts.

Steve