Stupidity Watch 1

     The Kepler data broke me. I had to acknowledge that the Drake Equation was nothing more than science fiction, and that life may have only ever evolved here in our solar system. But I still want to be Agnostic about aliens, so here's my grand theory of evolution, gods, aliens, and life only forming here in our solar system out of all of the planetary systems that we are aware of.      The Kepler observatory was designed to specifically look for planets. After looking at 42,000 class G stars similar in size to our Sun they were able to identify 2,000 stars that were edge-on towards us so that we could see the gravitational planes of their planetary systems, and then we could count as the planets would pass in front of the star. That was how we found out that none of the 2,000 stars had planetary systems like ours, and that 80% of them had only 1 planet, typically a planet like our Jupiter orbiting very close to the Sun, just the two of them wit...

     My theory of evolution and creation involves viruses. The Prophet Baha'u'llah of the Baha'i Faith wrote that God created the world and animals, but that it took place over a long period of time, and of course he wrote that there was something different about mankind which did not evolve over a long period of time like the rest of the world. The word evolution wasn't used, but what he was saying is that the world evolved and all the plants and animals evolved in the way that Charles Darwin described, but God still created the world. How could this happen?      From a modern scientific perspective, viruses have been involved with an enormous amount of the evolution of all species on the planet, the best example of which is the mutation that created the ability for the placenta to evolve so that mammals could exist, that mutation was caused by a virus , meaning humans and all mammals would have never have come into existence without this mutation. One ...