Genius? Really?

[MacUser]

Stephen Hawking: Alien but primitive life likely
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

WASHINGTON (AP) - Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says.

If there is life elsewhere in the universe, Hawking asks why haven't we stumbled onto some alien broadcasts in space, maybe something like "alien quiz shows?"

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A supposedly Genius can look around (including near infinite space) and surmise we are the smartest life and everything else is primitive? Zowie

Talk about limiting your mind. Does his great intellect not see design?

[RamboPreacher]

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Talk about limiting your mind. Does his great intellect not see design?

short answer - no.
if ye search on any of his works on the i'net, you fill find a very "bitter" and anti-religious person.

[DaJudge]

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Talk about limiting your mind. Does his great intellect not see design?

short answer - no.
if ye search on any of his works on the i'net, you fill find a very "bitter" and anti-religious person.

That may be true, but that's not really what he's talking about here. This article isn't about intelligent design or the existence of God, but rather the existence of intelligent alien life forms. His fallacy in logic is that our own oldest radio signals have only had time to travel about 90 light years. Our furthest reaching probe has just barely breached the heliopause at the edge of our own solar system. In the grand scheme of things in this vast galaxy, and indeed, universe, there are alot of far away places that we wouldn't have received signals from yet.

[MacUser]

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Talk about limiting your mind. Does his great intellect not see design?

short answer - no.
if ye search on any of his works on the i'net, you fill find a very "bitter" and anti-religious person.

That may be true, but that's not really what he's talking about here. This article isn't about intelligent design or the existence of God, but rather the existence of intelligent alien life forms. His fallacy in logic is that our own oldest radio signals have only had time to travel about 90 light years. Our furthest reaching probe has just barely breached the heliopause at the edge of our own solar system. In the grand scheme of things in this vast galaxy, and indeed, universe, there are alot of far away places that we wouldn't have received signals from yet.

I do understand his point.. but I'm trying to look thru his eyes. A "god" would be an advanced alien being regardless in his thinking.. and he instantly rules that out because we don't see "an alien" on a analog or digital transmission acting and behaving the way HE EXPECTs (insert projects).

An alien race could have enos ago mastered a higher level of communication (and who knows what else) that trumps all our primitive technology. He immediately doesn't allow for any of this.

They " Aliens have to meet us smart race".. not "We mere humans" have to even understand what we are already watching unfold.

It's a skewed limited mindset.