Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Is The Universe Twice as Old as We Believed?" video.

What I've always found funny about the "I trust the science" crowd, is that they tend to not understand the very basic principle that science doesn't have all the answers, and what we think we know at any given time is not what we're going to think we know tomorrow.
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@davestevenson9080 people just take science the wrong way, when we say "the universe is (x) years old", that doesn't mean we know that with absolute certainty, it just means that through our best knowledge, it's the best estimate we have. The problem is "scientists" stake their entire careers on assertions like that, so there's always going to be pushback whenever a new discovery challenges old assertions. Because we can't just simply replace the old assertions, there are other faulty assertions based on that assertion.
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I'm not saying it's aliens, but....
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@edgarbm6407 yep, and then people who don't understand the difference between science and people's interpretation of science lose trust in science, when it's really people they should be losing trust in, and never should have trusted in the first place.
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@JakobusMaximus no, the other poster is right, you're just reading science wrong. Nobody ever claimed they know the age of the universe with absolute certainty, at least not the actual scientists who publish these theories. It was just our best estimate based on what we know. Don't listen to the mid-wits who think they're big-wits, they don't understand the difference between certainty and estimates.
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That's a circular argument though, either something can come from nothing, or it can't. If it can, then there's no need for God, and if it can't, then God must have come from something too.
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@michaeldavid6832 why not aliens? If life can just arrive here on a comet or asteroid by accident, why couldn't the same thing happen, but on purpose?
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@michaeldavid6832 and like you said, our planet hasn't even existed long enough for our DNA to evolve to the point it has, according to mainstream science. And the only thing we know of that can make DNA evolve more rapidly is genetic manipulation, like we do with livestock and pets. So the most simple answer we're left with..... Is someone else manipulated our DNA.
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@michaeldavid6832 why is it less probable that there's life more evolved than us? The earth is pretty young compared to the known age of the universe. And it's highly unlikely we've overestimated the age of the universe, it's more likely we've underestimated it. If there's life at all other than on our planet, then there is certainly life that's older and more evolved than on our planet.
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@michaeldavid6832 seems like every "aliens don't exist" argument ultimately boils down to "because I've been told all my life that it's a crazy idea". Sorry, that's not good enough to me. Manned flight used to be a crazy idea, after that flight beyond our atmosphere was a crazy idea. Microscopic life used to be a crazy idea. Just because something seems crazy doesn't mean it's impossible. There's no logical reason alien life can't exist, or even that it's unlikely.
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@JakobusMaximus your problem is that you're conflating scientists with science. Science isn't a person, it's not an opinion, it's a set of principles that can be tested, predicted, and repeated. And when it comes to things as vast as the universe, there's obviously going to be a lot of guessing, since we can't really observe the vastness of space with the same accuracy we can observe something that fits in our hand. Just because Fauci and Tyson are ideologically driven quacks doesn't mean the principles of science are all bunk.
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The chances of that are already well above 50%. The part that's more in question is if they can, or would travel here.
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