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Originally Posted by marney

What makes one highly probable, the other only possible and yet one improbable.

Sheer logic and common sense? We know that the Christian God is a belief based on nothing more than Jewish folklore and word of mouth that has somehow survived in the form of The Bible. A highly contradictory text of pure meaningless rubbish that can easily be disproven by a group of eight year olds with a white board and a few Red Bulls on a Sunday afternoon.

Extraterrestrial life forms are highly probable given what we know about the size of the greater cosmos compared to our one planet. It doesn't give one a carte blanche to then allow all other things to be possible. If you work on that hypothesis then the Christian God has an equal chance of existing as Spiderman does, based on this tired idea of 'well if you can't disprove it it could exist!'.

Originally Posted by 'Conor

just my opinion...

I doubt it. I'd say it's more something you thought without thinking it through. Why would we have found aliens by now? We know there are at least 80 billion galaxies in the universe - I typed 'million' by accident a while ago. It was in fact billion. Eighty billion. So far a human boot has made it as far as the moon. And that was last century. Like the entire lifespan of life on earth so far that's an astonishingly meaningless amount of time.