[lbo-talk] Kucinich saw UFO on Shirley MacLaine's porch, was deeply moved

[Charles Brown]

As I understand it, acting as if it is impossible for there to be other
life in the universe is not the materialist/scientific "position" .
Rather acting as if earth has the only life forms in the universe is
closer to the old , religious "earth is the center of the universe"
idea.

Charles

Somebody wrote the below on another list.

But still this is not the original discussion which is about the
existence
or not of other intelligent lifeforms in the universe. I can agree
that
perhaps no civilization can escape its resource limits and star travel
which would explain there abscence from the skies. But that is not
proof
they do not exist. One the other hand we know we do exist, and our
planrt
is nothing exceptional and if we exist there must be others. To accept
that we are the only ones in the universe is illogical, egocentric,
and
against the laws of nature. Since the laws of physics, chemistry and
biochemistry produced us and since we must assume these laws operate
the
same way everywhere then we are an emergent property of those laws and
therefore there must be other such lifeforms in other places. Whether
we
will ever detect them or be detected by them is another question.