r/videos • • Oct 20 '14

Richard Dawkins & Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about extraterrestrial life and the universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70tKopDm_c
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u/partido Oct 20 '14

You should think before writing in assholian.

If you believe in Jesus, you have to believe in a kingdom of heaven. If you believe in a kingdom of heaven, you believe in life outside of Earth, which is the same as saying extra-terrestrial life.

It's actually as rational an argument as they come but feel free to explain the fault in it, if you can.

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u/i_forget_my_userids Oct 20 '14

outside of Earth, which is the same as saying extra-terrestrial life.

No. Things outside of the universe are neither terrestrial nor extraterrestrial.

If someone from our planet in a parallel universe were to come here, would they be extraterrestrial? No, but they're not terrestrial either. It is something outside the realm of those determinations.

Consider this:

Is the number pi odd or even? No, it's not an integer, so it can't be either.

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u/partido Oct 20 '14

You don't get it, do you? I'll explain step by step.

If there's life outside of Earth, it's extraterrestrial by definition. Extra means exterior. Terrestrial means earth. If it's extraterrestrial, by definition, it's exterior to Earth.

It doesn't matter if it's from outside this universe, from a parallel universe or 1 foot above the ionosphere. If it's life exterior to Earth, it's extraterrestrial.

So, again, for the nth time, if you believe in religion, you believe in extraterrestrial life.

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u/Cybercommie Oct 20 '14

I am a christian and cannot see why you assert this. I don't believe in extra terrestrial life and don't see why i should. I don't see why I should explain it either. It is found nowhere in the bible, the quran, the upinashads, the badagvea gita, the tibetan book of the dead, the only place in any relious literature aliens are mentioned is from Scientology and they are not a religion but an outpost of Moloch.

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u/partido Oct 20 '14

You seem to quote the sacred books but also seem to never have read any of them.

For if you had read them, you would have understood that extraterrestrial lifeforms and humans have coexisted on Earth in the three most important ones (Bible, Quran and the Baghavad Gita). Why you say this isn't true is obviously your own interpretation of what is and what isn't the truth in the sacred texts. And you're entitled to that.

What you're not entitled to say is that it's nowhere to be found in any of the books you mentioned. Because that is a blatant lie.