Elon Musk Calling out CERN for what it is...
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When a painter makes a painting does he put loads of detail and focus on the background? Depends, sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes they may put cool little secrets in the background whether they be big or small, meaningful or insignificant. And sometimes the background simply exists to fill in the picture and be a backdrop for the actual focus.
What kind of painter is God? Do we know?
Also,
Source?
To beings on other planets, wouldn't we be "the background"?
Only if beings on other planets exist, which we can't prove. All we can prove is that the universe is vast in size and contains an extreme number of planets, stars, etc. To make the jump to assuming they must contain life assumes a knowledge of God outside his word that we just don't have, unless, of course, I'm missing something.
Is the Mona Lisa the background to the mountain behind her? Or does the mountain exist to add to the focus (i.e. the woman in the painting)?
If the background appeared naturally through evolution along with the woman then you could claim they're equal and that there's no reason to think the woman is special. But when God is involved that all goes out the window and it becomes about understanding what he actually did, not what he maybe would have done when looked at through the human lens of what's "likely" or "feasible". It becomes about finding out his goal with the painting and there's no reason to assume the mountains behind us are anything more than empty rocks that exist solely as a background to us and for us.
The source for "unknowable number of planets" is our eyeballs and telescopes. "Species," though, I don't have a source. I do have a belief, however, that given how vast God's creations clearly are, that it'd be unlikely that there isn't a spirit son or daughter, or a living creation of His, whatsoever to be found anywhere beyond the Earth.
So as usual it's the conflation of actual fact with pure speculation (though to be fair you weren't the original poster I replied to). You may be right, I'm not 100% saying there isn't other life. But it's just as possible there isn't as there is. And to go back to my previous (likely imperfect analogy) we really have no idea what kind of painting God made outside of what He's told us.
As for unlikely, I don't know why it would be. We'd need perfect knowledge of God to know what He's "likely" to do in any given situation. In a universe with no God driven by evolution, I would agree that it's unlikely we'd be alone, which is what I used to believe. Now, though, I'm not really sure either way but currently see no need for aliens to exist or any reason they "should", though they still might.