Stupidity I didn't need this morning.

[elfs]

Gaah.  Nothing is more brain-damaging than waking up in the morning to read Ridley Scott talking about his new movie,Prometheus

NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way," Scott said. "That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric van Daniken’s[sic] ideas of how did we humans come about

Let me say that NASA, at least, has been know to disagree. And Erich von Daniken? Really? The man was a quack a century ago. Poor Leonard Nimoy, to have to repeat von Daniken's blather on In Search Of... all those years.

What's especially saddening?  This is supposed to be an Alien prequel.  Be afraid.  Be very, well, whatever.

Comments

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

Well my interest in this film has now taken a definite jolt downward.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Gah!

Here's the trick. "Almost mathematically impossible" means that just like big lottery winnings, it's not *completely* impossible. You just have to roll the dice enough times.

"God" as it were, reportedly simultaneously immortal and possessing infinite power, may just have needed to create the universe and let it all happen naturally. Why not? What's 13 billion years to a being that transcends time and space and cannot die? A one-in-a-billion chance (almost mathematically impossible!) of creating intelligent life and advanced civilization in one star system means that our own galaxy would possess about 300 advanced civilizations. And there's hundreds of billions more galaxies.

The problem with people like say, the Pope, is that they just can't fathom the number of times that God rolled the dice in one singular instant by creating the universe. All he had to do then was wait and start passing out stone tablets to goat herders-cum-president, which would pretty much take up all of his time, considering the trillions of civilizations there must be in the universe.