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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If he does, then he would have to accept that our galaxy is the same age as the universe and other galaxies. If he accepts another theory of universe formation, then our galaxy can actually be "a younger galaxy". It isn't a multiple choice answer question, it one or the other and the choice then determines how a person moves from there.
Astrophysicists estimate that the Milky Way contain 400-500 BILLION stars, some estimate more. Starts like the sun are said to number around 300 million-1 billion. Even among stars like the sun, the age range can be up to 7-8 billion years. So to say that there is not species that are billions of years older via their planet is somewhat wrong. There is no certainty that a given planet with life has (had) species that developed what we would see as godlike intelligence, but there is no certainty that did not happen either. Also, neither of us know what takes the place of human beings when we run our course (assuming we don't kill ourselves first), that life form could be vastly more intelligent, as humans are to what came before us, integrate that progression over 2-4 billion years and it is clear that there could be and has been intellectually superior beings in the galaxy and universe that understand the energy and forces within the universe in a way that even if we lived and learned that long, we still won't understand for hundreds of millions of years, despite how smart we think we are or our relatives are.
Lastly, you have a right to be proud of your son, but to use him as a crutch is wrong. I can promise you that there are astronomers, astrophysicists, geophysicists who would debate every thing that he claims. There is no absolute in science and you should know by now that a theory that is "universally accepted" today ends up on a trash pile as more knowledge is gained.
Lastly. If astronomers and astrophysicists don't understand what they call "dark matter" (they have not remotely proven it's existence, it's just a warm feeling that they have), how can they be sure that the speed of light is the ultimate speed?