was on this planet before humans ?
and do you think there could be life on other planets
how do you define life
explain.
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Dinosaurs?
Most definitely. But not in our solar system.
life definition? Read Vishnu Sahasranamam daily. And the answer will come to you.
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ok
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Even in Quran Pak, wherever we read (recite) Allah is the one who is a Creator, it is never mentioned, Allah tamam INSAANO ka maalik o khaaliq hay, it has always been said, Allah tamam MAKHLOOK ka khaliq hay..so it means k yaqeenan kahin na kahin koi na koi makhlooq to bas rahi hay ya hogi... ya rahi hogi!!
Also, insaano se pehle koi makhlooq thi, zindagi thi? iska answer sirf Allah ke paas hay. Jab insaan uswaqt thay hi nahin to dont expect a human to answer this! :)
Same about the planet.. can be, can be not! Allah Knows Everything!
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Well said queen 
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What was there before humans is well documented and accepted. What was there before the current "life" is another questions. May be earth went through many spans of supporting life and being life less. No evidence can survive to show a living being lets say 2 billion years ago.
Could there still be life as we know it on other planets (more specifically out of our solar system)? definitely yes, no reason it cant.
Even in our solar system few planets had life supporting conditions in the past, who knows they had life long time back.
Its our duty to spread life on other planets i think. We cannot just depend on earth for our species survival especially when we are exhausting the planet with life and society supporting resources.
Bigger question is, do we want to interact with intelligent life on other planets? What if they want to expand on our planet or take us as viruses. what if we are just termites for them which doesnt need preserving, or what if in their biology there is no empathy!
on a side note, finding friendly intelligent life on other planets which we can interact will destroy most of the religions on this planet. Which may be a good thing for us though.
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Its probably safe to say there were various kinds of animals living on planet Earth before humans. Its logical also because for humans to survive, there had to be a source of food (animals and plants).
There may be other life forms on other planets. Whether its "intelligent" life form cannot be said as of yet.
As for definition of life, I would say something that reproduces, grows, is aware of its surroundings etc etc.
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I am surprised and disappointed at Kaka's post. It is widely accepted that each time Brahma winks, that is equivalent to 60 million years. 16 winks is a billion years. Life gets created, destroyed and cycle continues.
You didn't even know that, Kaka?
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I am surprised and disappointed at Kaka's post. It is widely accepted that each time Brahma winks, that is equivalent to 60 million years. 16 winks is a billion years. Life gets created, destroyed and cycle continues.
You didn't even know that, Kaka?
;) ;)
How can i forget the eternal truth endorsed by carl sagan. My entire post was in the time frame of when bramha gets created and when he gets destroyed. Basically Bramha gets to wink in between Shiva's sleep cycle.
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Lol. Love the skeptics on this forum.
Agreed though, the 'before' is documented by science and also by religion, so whatever you place more importance on, answers are there.
Life on other planets is a work in progress. It's okay to say we don't know at this point.
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From an Islamic scriptural point of view ... There are definitely direct verses that indicate there was life similar to humans on Earth.
When the form of Adam (AS) was made the angels were curious to the nature of the human as they had seen creatures on Earth like us that used to kill each other. Now those creatures like us could be the animals we see today or possibly humanoid creatures but were really just beasts. The human element that makes us more than animal is because of a number of clear differences we have some of the more basic differences is speech, but other differences includes the ability to choose to do things outside predictable behaviour and conceptualise abstraction - Such as mathematical models, recollect historical accounts and perceive future events. But as far as life goes ... we are compelled to view in a referential frame of our own Earthly forms of life ... Which is organic ... This is why when we look around for signs of life we look for organic matter ... But philosophically life need not be limited to organics ... Theoretically life can exist in forms that we cannot see - such as possible things that live in our space but in a different phase.
Allah (SWT) is indeed known as the RabulAlaameen (The Lord of the Multiverse) ... Not only is each domain a world - such as the oceans, land, mountains and skies, but also each planet, satellite, system and galaxy are worlds ... either containing organic life or not ...
So the definition of life can be backward derived we know that living creatures that we know have certain characteristics, they reproduce, they sense, they move, respire, they grow, they excrete and they feed. These are all scientific empirical measures - but none of these serve the purpose not even in their entirety from a philosophical point of view describe what life is ...
In order to answer these questions we have to look deeper. Why do we eat? To stay alive ... Why do we reproduce? To remain existent ... Why do we sense? To help us find benefit and avoid harm ... Why do we respire? To enable movement and to stay alive ... Why do we eat or excrete? To survive ... you see all of these revolve around the idea that every life form is "serving some purpose or a set of purposes"
It infers that life is a natural process that organises itself contrary to direction of entropy ... Entropy is analogous to decay, disorder - it is the natural direction of everything we know that it DEAD or not living ... So life is the opposite of that. Life is preserving of form it goes against entropy and promotes organisation. Life can be said to be fulling a purpose that we can see either knowingly like in our cases or unknowingly like in the case of a tree ... The complexity of unravelings of a life form show that there is a design in place - a design greater than the entity itself ...
We subconsciously manage our bodies from the cellular level - we live symbiotically with tiny creatures within the inner space of our bodies ... From the DNA spiral to cells, to tissues to organs to the body to the society we are complex and that complexity shows that we are not dead ... it shows that we are alive ...
The simplest definition of life would be "directed power" - Power cannot be directed if there is no life present - no conscious being present to direct that power. Even trial and error is a learning process - a learning process that demonstrates intelligence ... There are some people who never learn a thing ... they continue to make the same errors ... Evolution is a form of directed power - it is based on a form of intelligence - evolution itself could not be possible without something being there that "learns".
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bolded bits :k: