# Poll on Outer Space Beliefs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296 "2014-04-16T23:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Space\_Trucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Space\_Trucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Trucker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/1 "2014-04-16T23:15:55Z")
We are all intelligent… but what do you REALLY think is going on?? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/2 "2014-04-16T23:24:07Z")
> [@Space\_Trucker](#): > > We are all intelligent… but what do you REALLY think is going on?? What’s the question? ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/3 "2014-04-16T23:40:21Z")
God did it is always a answer but OTOH the Big Bang is just a question that does not explain anything, it’s just a projection of how far we can see into the past, it does not answer where that came from. Based on your options I vote for aliens did it as we certainly didn’t and yet it is done. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/4 "2014-04-16T23:54:05Z")
> [@Space\_Trucker](#): > > We are all intelligent… cite?🙂 All of the evidence we have so far accumulated points to the Big Bang. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Trucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Space\_Trucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Trucker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/5 "2014-04-17T00:17:24Z")
Thank you all for taking the poll. My question is, are these things deleted after the expiration date or does the poll stay up, without people being able to vote? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/6 "2014-04-17T00:36:45Z")
> [@](#): > > This poll will close on 04-23-2014 at 07:18 PM (Posted above the poll.) Your thread will remain, though. I voted “don’t give a crap” (and thank you for providing that as an option) because like most people I have no clue what role aliens played in anything. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Trucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Space\_Trucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Trucker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/7 "2014-04-17T02:16:58Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > (Posted above the poll.) Your thread will remain, though. > > I voted “don’t give a crap” (and thank you for providing that as an option) because like most people I have no clue what role aliens played in anything. I find basic simple questions get more information than complex questions. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/8 "2014-04-17T03:43:49Z")
I don’t care because it’s unknowable with our current technology. It’s like shooting the breeze over time travel: fun, but ultimately fruitless. Like anything unknown, I believe that when we do find out the facts someday, it will be far beyond anything we could imagine today. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/9 "2014-04-17T03:54:28Z")
Why is there no multiple answer option? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/10 "2014-04-17T04:57:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Why is there no multiple answer option? 😕 There is. You just check off as many boxes as apply. Unless you’ve already voted. No do-overs. Big bang because it the currently held opinion supported by science as we know it. And who cares because what difference does it make on this third rock from the sun? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/11 "2014-04-17T15:01:21Z")
1 _and_ 3. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Trucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Space\_Trucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Trucker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/12 "2014-04-17T16:17:29Z")
I appreciate the responses. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/13 "2014-04-17T16:31:01Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > 1 _and_ 3. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/14 "2014-04-17T16:38:17Z")
1. Don’t know…yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/15 "2014-04-17T16:42:07Z")
God made the Big Bang, just to troll all the scientific types. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/16 "2014-04-17T17:05:51Z")
I went with 1 and 2. Evidence so far points to a Big Bang, but I believe in a First Cause. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/17 "2014-04-17T17:25:03Z")
1, 2, and especially 5, because the Big Questions really don’t have much day-to-day impact on life. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/18 "2014-04-17T19:32:17Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I went with 1 and 2. Evidence so far points to a Big Bang, but I believe in a First Cause. Same here. I’m all on board with scientific theory, but it only explains what happened \*after \*“the beginning”. So the question of “what caused it all to happen in the first place” seems to boil down to “God (in whatever shape, form , quantity, etc.) did it” or “It just happened”. I refuse to believe that everything is here because of random chance. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/19 "2014-04-17T19:37:11Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Same here. I’m all on board with scientific theory, but it only explains what happened \*after \*“the beginning”. So the question of “what caused it all to happen in the first place” seems to boil down to “God (in whatever shape, form , quantity, etc.) did it” or “It just happened”. I refuse to believe that everything is here because of random chance. Then in what frame did God exist before he created the universe? Has he been here forever? Then why can’t the universe have also been here forever? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296/20 "2014-04-17T19:43:25Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > 1 _and_ 3. > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Ditto. Aren’t they contradictory? All science so far points to a big bang. And if that’s the case my understanding would be that the universe is finite and expanding, not eternal and infinite. I think either is possible by the way, just not simultaneously. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-on-outer-space-beliefs/686296.md?page=2)