zodiac20 Mar 2006

"So God's just a romantic notion"

No. Consider it this way: There is the possibility of alien life. Any specific idea about what alien life is (say, on Star Trek) is a romantic notion.

ACTUAL alien life may be anything or nothing -- superintelligent floating gasclouds, rock-dumb microbes, something we wouldn't even technically consider "alive", nothing. ACTUAL alien life is not at all affected by people's ideas that aliens are supposed to look like Star Trek or whatever. The actuality of alien life is not a romantic notion. People have for centuries now tried to make educated guesses about what aliens look like. Mostly people guess that aliens look like something on earth, which is absurd of course. The best educated guess is that there is the possibility that aliens exist, which is not a romantic notion.