Life on Other Worlds?

So I’m not going to post a comment here since my feeling is in the negative.

Naturalselection: There is another thread that discusses this at length.

Some sources (Or Hashem of Rabenu Kraskas) indicate the possibility of life on other worlds but not intelligent life capable of moral choices as that would pose a problem with there being only one Torah

I believe it is possible.

Zachessin and cantankerous – as believing Jews we hold that life appeared on Earth not as the result of any ‘likelihood’ of it doing so spontaneously with the right ingredients but as an act of creation by G-d.

Therefore I would say on the contrary – it is more UNLIKELY that life as we know it exists on other planets.

What you’ve stated about life forming quickly and inevitably with the right ingredients is factually incorrect. No scientist to date, even with all the ingredients that are known to form living cells, has come even close to creating even the most simple single-celled organism.

They have even tried taking a live single cell, emptying its contents, and then putting it back together. Totally unsuccessful. Life is more than the sum of its physical aspects.

NaturalSelection: The Torah of Seichel cannot be an ultimate guide to right and wrong without a G-d given Torah. If there is no guide from a higher moral authority ch’v then no concept of right or wrong exists in a true sense . The entire universe including humanity is then just a bunch of atoms interacting meaninglessly. So if extra-terrestrial beings can make moral choices, those would have to be based on the only moral guide that truly exists – the Torah, which they won’t have on another planet.

I do not speculate very much as to whether there is or is not life in outerspace. But I know this, Hashem created this universe for the purpose of Creating Israel and bringing our people to the forefront of our day. That said I personally do not believe that our universe will ever be detroyed (Noah story) and that there is a possiblity that in the very very very distant future, man will take to the stars. Perhaps G-d has planted other life on the other planets for our own edification. But I do not expect that there is another planet of people who are created to serve our Creator in the way that our people exist today. I do not believe in a parallel universe where there might be another sentient people who know our Creator, though it is an interesting considering to speculate and wonder about.

That said, what you see here on Earth is what it is about.

The Jewish people have a mission and God created this universe to give us Torah.

Do you think that there is Torah in another part of universe? That is the interesting question. But I profess that I believe that we are it on this lonely crazy planet and that the other planets if they have a people they are only for the benefit of our Existence as we are the ones who have Torah.