God is still faith based. There is no solid incontrovertable proof. There is no real disproof either, as his existance is defined by him not being able to be easily seen or proven to exist. Nice little safety, eh?
I am not disproving the existance of a supreme being, although I do have to admit I doubt VERY seriously "he" just happens to be male, a father figure, and the race of whatever civilization founded the religion at the time. If a middle-eastern Jew named "Jesus" is claimed to be white, how can I put anything behind the testamonies of others picturing him as a big grandfatherly guy with a beard? I think "He", if "he" exists, is something that is beyond our comprehension, and as such, we put him in whatever bottle our own little minds can comprehend without exploding.
Now, as for life out there? that is VERY hard to say. We have only been around in less than an eyeblink in this universe, and our ability to communicate through things like radio transmission has been here even shorter. What is to say that there HASN'T been life somewhere already? That they haven't exhausted their resources, blown each otehr up, or been swallowed in a supernova?
What if there is no such thing as portals, hyperspace, or light speed drives? How will we ever see a civilization 10,000 light years away? Battlestar Galactica style by taking a whole bunch of self sustaining ships (with infinite fuel) and setting off on a journey only to find, to our dismay, that we do not find humanoid females with two navels but silicon based protazoans and/or beings that are so far advanced we are not even aware of their presence.
Who knows, thinking rocks? (Rocks whose own life patterns take millenia to be defined rather than our own short century?)
The main problem with the probabilistic analysis of life in the universe is that it only says "yes" or "no". It does not state whether or not we will ever get to see it, or any sign of it. It does not say whether it is around NOW. It takes a wild stab in the dark and says: "Definitely maybe".
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