Does Evolution rule out the existence of Extraterrestrial life?

[maryfarrukh]

Looked a lot of places for this but couldn't find the specifics.

To those who know things around the theory, does it rule out the existence of other life forms in the universe? As in aliens, I mean. Does it suggest that humans are alone? Or is it silent about it?


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[Gizmo]

^^Why would it rule out extraterrestrial life? If there was life on another planet it would evolve and grow just like life on earth according to the threory.

 

[Kane]

^ U mean to say that we are alone in this gigantic cold and dark piehole.......oooooh gave me chills!

@topic I dont think that we are the only civilization in this universe and about 60 billion earth like planets have been predicted only in milky way galaxy...

 

[Nauman 360]

No it doesn't rule that out.. Evolution of life through natural selection merely explains why and how life manages to survive, adopt and change.

There could be different forms of life evolving all over the universe..

 

[Moatasim333]

i would like to believe that something is out there. what a day it would be when we find that other intelligent beings are also somewhere in the universe....

 

[opethian]

Do u guys believe in Islam or theory of evolution by Darwin???
Islam clearly explains the other forms of life n creations by Allah n it's very much part of ur faith too ... Emaan e Mufasil n Surah e Jin ... N incidents of Invitation to Islam by Holy Prophet to Jin at Masjid e Jin clearly show their existence ... Also the building of temple of Solomon by Hazrat Suleman AS is evidence that jins exist ... Now if some atheist call them extra terrestrial or ET it's his lack of knowledge ...
Also if u read Holy Quran with translation n tags ever you will never have to get inspired by these movies like Prometheus or Aliens ...
Dnt confuse ur self with popular form of myths created by media which is actually incepted by old civilizations of Europe from dark ages ie Vikings n Goths n even Greeks etc ...
Personally I dnt need a Jewish or a atheist theorists to teach me origin of life ... Yea I read these theories back in the school days n I still remember them word by word but every person should draw a boundary between his faith n worldly knowledge ...

As far as evolution goes ... How many species u have read about who r documented in human history ... A guy presented a theory on an island trying to give a human logic to works of God Almighty ... There is no difference between science n religion ... Science is logics which human gives to God's creations n religion is a blind faith on something told to man by God Himself ...

EDIT: I must add my opinion when I wrote this post originally n when I'm editing is totally changed on how science has evolved n thanks to this thread creator I n much more educated n much more tolerant n considerate man than when I initially wrote this post ...
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[cobby]

I once heard zakir naik saying , dnt remember much something like Allah is ruler of not only earth but entire universe it was some thing like that , and he said there are other creatures or something apart from humans just that we haven't found them or they haven't found us yet

 

[opethian]

u see n watch movies like stargate ... terminologies like 'other dimensions' ... n the stuff like kabala n black magic etc ...
even the fake concept of holy religious things which were part of every man made/modified religion ...
r all just one thing ... man since ist day has tried to go beyond borders n breach his limitations ...
the knowledge which was bestowed to Hazrat Suleman AS which in movies n literature these people call SOLOMON the great wizard ... he had the power to communicate with all extra terrestrials or other forms of life ... his kingdom till now is regarded as the biggest kingdom ... n if u read the tafseer in detail hazrat Suleman ordered Jins to build his temple on a raised rock ... the myths say that in the foundations of his temple he burried the knowledge n books ... which enabled him to rule his kingdom
khair the story n fake myths r numerous ...
but life is not that complex ... nature is not that complex ...
Mightiness of Allah is not that He made earth like planets in every galaxy ... the mightiness is this that out of this whole limitless universe He put life only on one planet ... the conditions n calculations He did were so precise that out of His whole universe only one planet is truly His prime creation ...
y i dnt separate my faith from my scientific understandings because both r part of same thing ... my faith ...
our Holy prophet was prophet of for whole kainaat ... universe ...
if he invited Jins n Human n he left some other form of life then how can he be prophet for whole kainaat ...
2ndly yes the possibility of man like creature is a possibility but a new form of intelligence ... i dnt buy that idea ...
i dnt even believe in evolution ... why cause do u think or believe that before Hazrat Aadam AS there were monkies n chimps ...
dnt u read in Quran when Allah said he brought azaab on a nation n turned it into chimps ... so if mr fking darwin after centuries find their corpses ... n at a time when carbon dating n assessing age of a burried fossil was not even possible how can he say that those r our ancestors ...
we r putting his words against words of God ... LAHAUL WALA QUWAH
i dnt say dnt read these theories ... read them ... research them n find the actual truth behind it ...
darwinism is not a theory now its a religion ... people call them athiests ...
man gives every creation a reason from his knowledge ... n man no matter how learned he becomes he can never make theories to challenge God n His words
isnt it the beauty of Faith ... u dnt need a scientific reason to believe on it ...
I am not a katar muslim ... i have my own weaknesses but when it comes to evolution n these atheists theories coined in movies like Prometheus ... i dnt take a moment to deny them ... read about Sumerian civilization ... n other such old civilizations ... after so many years ... thousands of years ... man is returning to these man made beliefs ... myths ...

 

[GloriousChicken]

its just a theory.
a very shitty theory.

 

[opethian]

in this world ... 2 plus 2 = 4 ... it is also a theory we cant explain the laws of Gods with man made equations ...

 

[Newton]

first of all, life on earth (as we know it today) is a result of evolution? all from unicellular organisms to animals to monkeys to humans? i dont think so. what stopped the evolution? why isint it happening today?

i think life exists as it is, as it was created and there are creations other than humans but i dont think they evolved from something

 

[kalmati14]

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. As for your question NO. Evolution does not rule out the possiblity extraterrstrial life because every living thing evovles whether is us or some other life form far in a distant galaxy. If there is any extraterrstrial life then it will evolve according to its own enviroment.

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This is a scientific question so religious people please get out

 

[maryfarrukh]

This wasn't in anyway meant as an offence to theists. I was merely asking a simple question about a theory. The poster above me is right. It has nothing to with God and Adam (A.S). It's a scientific question. As in how the atheists view the possibility of extraterrestrial life in the vast universe

 

[hasanJ]

How exactly do u think it rules out extraterrestrials?

Life can evolve on other planets just like life evolved on earth

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[abcd]

Evolution is a theory about the origin of species not the origin of life. It proposes a mechanism by which complex life forms evolve from simpler ones and how organisms adapt to their environment. It doesn't tell us how the first living organism arose from basic elements or how life started on Earth because that is not the goal of evolutionary theory. Thus it can neither confirm nor rule out the existence of extra terrestrial life.

 

[opethian]

science a fart of drunk atheist ... nothing more ...
n plz dnt be offended ... we give extra attention to what ever a drunk gora says ...
and if every thing has evolved then how this universe came into being ...

to OP ... what is extra terrestrial ... things we cant co-relate to our present earth we will term it as EXTRA TERRESTRIAL ...
jis cheez ki logic na ho we call it ALIEN ... things which we cant explain through our scientific theories we put it in the folder of EVOLUTION ...
it took millenniums for a cell to evolve into human ... but what happened ... y there is no documented evolution-ized creature ...
so one day there will be a SUPER MAN an evolved man lol flying in his underwear n bed-sheet ...

i dnt rule out chances of life on other planets ... but man is the youngest creature of this universe ... whats stopping other forms of life to contact us ...
yea like Sumerians someone gora will dig up his own shiaaat one day n will say man was a lab experiment of some more intelligent form of life ... in reality man is a lab creation of Allah ... in some way Sumerians were right ... n in a way proposition of extra terrestrial is also true ... but religion gives them names like angels n jinns n science calls them extra terrestrials as science has no recorded encounter n samples of them ...

why u people hate relating MAN created science with religion ... isnt it exciting that ur Holy Book has hints n answers to ur every question ... strange y u hate this ...

 

[Ottoman]

Interesting topic. It's just that I see no relation between the theory of evolution and the existence of extra-terrestrials.

 

[opethian]

Evolution is a theory about the origin of species not the origin of life. It proposes a mechanism by which complex life forms evolve from simpler ones and how organisms adapt to their environment. It doesn't tell us how the first living organism arose from basic elements or how life started on Earth because that is not the goal of evolutionary theory. Thus it can neither confirm nor rule out the existence of extra terrestrial life.

actually theory of evolution should be exactly what u said ... but then it leaps beyond n takes on things which this theory cant explain or prove ...
those who believe on this theory take on every living being n goes back to point of singularity n terms every form of life evolving from basic elements of atoms ... theories which r built on this vague theory of darwin r so skeptical n flawed ... n thats y instead of discussing evolution in isolation people tend to discuss it in ways which r out of its scope ... like extra terrestrial life forms ... i think such topics r beyond the scope of theory of evolution ...

 

[Nauman 360]

Evolution is a theory about the origin of species not the origin of life. It proposes a mechanism by which complex life forms evolve from simpler ones and how organisms adapt to their environment. It doesn't tell us how the first living organism arose from basic elements or how life started on Earth because that is not the goal of evolutionary theory. Thus it can neither confirm nor rule out the existence of extra terrestrial life.

Perfectly explained.

 

[kalmati14]

actually theory of evolution should be exactly what u said ... but then it leaps beyond n takes on things which this theory cant explain or prove ...
those who believe on this theory take on every living being n goes back to point of singularity n terms every form of life evolving from basic elements of atoms ... theories which r built on this vague theory of darwin r so skeptical n flawed ... n thats y instead of discussing evolution in isolation people tend to discuss it in ways which r out of its scope ... like extra terrestrial life forms ... i think such topics r beyond the scope of theory of evolution ...

Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?