Mars

People finally getting the opportunity to go to Mars. In about 20-30 years we could truly have the first alien ever be born on another planet and come to Earth. In my personal opinion I think the end times would happen first.

Christians [apart from anyone else] have been claiming that it's been the end times
for the last 2000 years.

If we assume that there will actually be an end times, and that the probability of any
given prediction that this year will be the last is equal.
And we then stipulate that it's unlikely that we would have got this far without the
apocalypse happening [p=0.1 or 10%] then the probability of any given year being
the apocalypse is ~0.00115 [~0.115%].

Thus the probability of the apocalypse being in the next 20 years is ~0.0228 [~2.28%]
Thus the probability of the apocalypse being in the next 50 years is ~0.0560 [~5.60%]
Thus the probability of the apocalypse being in the next 80 years is ~0.0880 [~8.80%]
Thus the probability of the apocalypse being in the next 100 years is ~0.109 [~10.9%]

Which means that even if we grant the possibility that the Christian religion is correct,
and that there will be an apocalypse, and granting each generation an equal chance of
being right, and making it really likely [90%] that it should have happened by now...

The chance of it happening in any given life span is still less than 10%.


And that was me being wildly ridiculously generous to your position.

Originally posted by RBHILL
People finally getting the opportunity to go to Mars. In about 20-30 years we could truly have the first alien ever be born on another planet and come to Earth. In my personal opinion I think the end times would happen first.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
What does the possible coming of "the end times" have to do with people travelling to Mars?

Originally posted by RBHILL
In a way it's kind of like building the Tower of Babel even though I know you wouldn't see it that way. I just don't see God allowing it to happen. I mean when Christ comes back if people are living on Mars at that time, yes he has his ways of judging those people too. But he has that hidden from our minds how he will judge those people.

Originally posted by RBHILL
In a way it's kind of like building the Tower of Babel even though I know you wouldn't see it that way. I just don't see God allowing it to happen. I mean when Christ comes back if people are living on Mars at that time, yes he has his ways of judging those people too. But he has that hidden from our minds how he will judge those people.

Originally posted by googlefudge
Well that just makes the rest of this epicly unimaginably vast universe even
more pointless in your religion than it was already.

Why the hell would god create a universe tens of billions of light years across
with 100's of billions of galaxies with 100's of billions of stars in them with
100's of billions of planets circling them. And make it l ...[text shortened]... unbelievably immense universe????

That's close to being the stupidest idea I have ever heard.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
In what way is it like building the Tower of Babel?

Originally posted by RBHILL
Building the tower of Babel they wanted to reach God to be like God.

The first words uttered on the telephone was look what God has done!

When they get to Mars they will say look what man has done!

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I see. And what makes Mars so special compared to, say, the Moon?

Originally posted by RBHILL
Well there obviously going to live on Mars first before the moon.

Originally posted by twhitehead
And the space station? You never thought about that and said 'look what man has done'? What about computers, or the internet? Surely you can think of a greater achievement than going to live on Mars?