Do you believe that extra terrestrials visit our planet?

Philippines
July 15, 2010 6:06pm CST
Now maybe this is a lame topic for some of you, but I just recently read an article on yahoo about an alleged UFO near Xiaoshan Airport in China. It says the airport closed down and delayed 18 flights. I remember when two of my college friends argued about the existence of aliens in our planet. They're both telling that aliens really do exist but one of 'em said none has ever visited our planet. The universe is so large and I think it is impossible that earth is the only planet that contains life. What is your opinion about this?
15 responses
@dogsnme (1264)
• United States
16 Jul 10
I believe it is entirely possible that we are the only living beings in the universe. I base my belief on the Bible. I believe, without a shadow of a doubt in my heart, that the Bible is the infallible word of God. While I have never read the entire Bible the passages I have read along with discussions I have had with my father who has read the entire Bible tells me that the Bible gives no indication that life of any kind exists on other planets....certainly no intelligent life. While the Bible doesn't specify life on any other planets....to my knowledge....it does mention, in the book of Genesis, the creation of life as we know it as pertaining to the earth. Since the Bible does not specifically state...again, as far as I know....that life does exist on other planets this leads me to conclude two things: one, that life indeed does not exist on any other planet, and two, that if life does exist on other planets it is not God's will for us to be concerned with it.
@dogsnme (1264)
• United States
16 Jul 10
Whoa! Hold on a second. I never said that because the Bible doesn't mention specificly that life does exist on other planets that it automatically means that life doesn't exist elsewhere. Look again at how I started my response. I said, "I believe it is entirely POSSIBLE....that we are the only living beings in the universe. Just like you said "there's still a POSSIBILITY." I never said it's entirely probable or even entirely factual that we are the only living beings in the universe. I am simply stating the conclusions I come to from what I know about what the Bible says. Could I be wrong about those conclusions? It's entirely possible.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
OH!!! im sory. ok i got you. yes yes you maybe right too. we never know. i respect that.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
I respect your opinion. I am a Catholic and I believe about everything that's written in the Bible. I just can't interpret some of it. But I disagree at the part that you said about what's not mentioned in the Bible doesn't exist. The Bible didn't even mention that life DID NOT exist outside our planet. So there's still a possibility.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
16 Jul 10
Maybe. Maybe not. I respect the fact that there really are things beyond our knowledge. What I know though is, we were given the task to be stewards of Earth but we are destroying it and are going to bring about its destruction - not some Alien from another planet. I think we should just care more about our own race, our own planet before letting ourselves wander off to other planetary beings which have 50-50 existence. I mean, I wasn't lecturing you, don't get me wrong. Some people are so obsessed with the ideas of Aliens amidst us but doesn't even care about their next door neighbor. I mean, that's so silly.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
17 Jul 10
Exactly. We were made for each other. Not for some aliens who may or may not be existent. Thanks for the BR, my friend.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
yes you're totally right. We don't even know if aliens really did visit our planet because we don't have solid proof. But we must all be reminded that we have a planet of our own. And its falling apart and we are the ones that can only save it.
@ehsanji (503)
• Pakistan
16 Jul 10
It is clearly mentioned in the Quran that there are creatures/things that are hidden. The world and the universe discovered until now is hardly like the 4 percent of the total discovery of things out there in the universe. The rest are hidden from our eyes, and I don't think we will ever be able to find out. The development today is like equal to nil compared what is out there. So yeah, there might be creatures, things, and so much out there in the universe, because Allah's greatness is never limited.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
Yes I also respect the teachings of Islam. Life is not just limited here on earth. Its just that we are limited to our technology and resources thats way we cannot actually prove yet that there is life out there. But i do believe that there is.
• India
16 Jul 10
going by statistics even if you consider only 1% of planets in this universe can sustain lives ,and only 1% Of them really do have life, and 1%of them have life forms intelligent and more advanced than us then still we are taking about 1000's of planets , so it's entirely possible that there are intelligent life forms out there but they visit us or not that's matter of debate.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
yes there's a huge possibility that life exist far away from here. In fact i totally believe there is. But you are right, if there's some kind of life form out there, they are lightyears away and its nearly impossible for them to visit here. I don't know if the government hide the proofs about them but it's really hard to believe without a valid source.
• China
16 Jul 10
I believe it in 80%.Because the space is very wide ,people can live on the earth. Maybe there are some other species live on the unkonwed planets. scientis could discover these unkonwn species by the growth of technology and economy. I sincerly hope that I could see ET in my life.I am assure many people have this idea like mine.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
yes I know there are lots of alien fanatics out there. Well, im just hoping that it wont hurt you or abduct you when you see one. haha.
@lunchz (43)
16 Jul 10
hmmm i don't know really if i will believe it or not.. lots of people say that they really do exist and even visits our planet often. but there is a saying that "To see is to believe" and i hadn't even seen one, so for now i will not believe until one of the aliens approach me and say "hello i'm an alien look at me, to see is to belive!".. ahaha!! .
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
haha. this definitely made me laugh. yes too see is to believe. But if you ask me, to believe is to see! so go! lets go to mars and find some freakin martians! hahaha
@luffy7 (817)
• Singapore
16 Jul 10
if you see all news about UFO, you would always notice that all ufo pic is quite blur, so its quite unsure whether it is a real UFO anot, it could be cloud or some other planes above the sky, statlites. i agree that the universe is so big,so anything is possible ,but earth is too small for aliens to keep coming out on the news. even a probability of meteor to hit earth is around once in a 24millions years or more
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
There are news reports circulating about this event, but I really don't know the authenticity of the report, the existence of alien is still debatable, so I can't say if they visit really out planet. But based on some testimony some ended believe E.T existed and visited mother Earth, I even love watching the alien-inspired TV show before called "Roswell"
@fryloc (62)
• United States
16 Jul 10
Honestly from tv shows and books and such, I honestly think they are aliens out there in universe! But then again, I still an kinda skeptical because I would always think that alleged reports could just be hoaxes. But who knows, there could be aliens out there as we know it! Happy myLotting! - Fry
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
yes lots of hoax have been spreading all over the net. There's too little proof. I do believe that there are other living creatures outside our planet but I am half-convinced that they visited Earth. Happy myLotting too!
• Romania
16 Jul 10
I belive their very interesting to know what we doing. In Romania also they appear...The romanian air force try to aproach to their O.Z.N them but they divide it .
@rosebinas (180)
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
To see is to believe. Well, I haven't seen even a single proof of aliens existence yet- So, I cannot agree that there really are UFOs out there.
@dsrp82 (676)
• Brazil
16 Jul 10
Oh, yeah! I just wanna see them, but I believe they're already here
@musedsmh (254)
• Indonesia
16 Jul 10
i believe it %75, and the rest i didn't. i agree with you, the universe is so spacious we'll never know how large the universe, maybe we're not the only one who lived in the universe, just wait and see what will happen.
• Philippines
16 Jul 10
yes and if ever there are no living creatures out there maybe there's another planet that's inhabitable. There are lots of planets out there its just that they are lightyears away
@Lunaxh (45)
• China
16 Jul 10
I believe that there are other creatures on the other planets of universe not just on the earth. Universe is infinite, existence of aliens is possible. If we can live long enough, maybe we can be witness of aliens.
@samafayla33 (1856)
• United States
16 Jul 10
it's possible that there might be but i don't believe in them because of weather baloons and debri in satellite view. I think that we sometimes tend to get mind benders rather than logically look at the information provided the "aliens" left.