Brian Cox admitted 'we're only intelligent life in galaxy' as alien argument shut down - Daily Express

The debate whether intelligent life - separate to humans - exists has raged for years.

Physicist Professor Brian Cox holds this view, having previously told Joe Rogan on his 'PowerfulJRE' podcast in 2019 that he believed humans were the only intelligent life in the galaxy.

Asked whether he believed there to be extraterrestrial life like us, he said: "I tend to restrict myself to the galaxy, as I do think it's possible that at the moment that there is just one civilisation in the Milky Way, and that's us?

The question for many, including Prof Cox, is how often intelligent life comes into being, and how widely spaced out it is

He said: "I think they're very widely spaced, and I think there are one or two per galaxy as an average."

And while Prof Cox said this means everything humans do is down to them and proves you have to "make the most of everything", he previously left open the argument for the existence of a God

Prof Cox said: "What we should say is that science, we don't know all the answers, so we don't know where the laws of nature came from, and we don't know why the universe began in the way that it did, if indeed it had a beginning

"We don't know why the Big Bang was very highly ordered which ultimately shows that the only difference between the past and the future - the so-called arrow of time - is that in the past the universe was really ordered, and it's getting more disordered

"And that necessary state of order at the start of the universe, which is really the reason we exist - because the universe began in a particular form - we don't know why that was