“You're a Start Trek fan, right?”
Yes.
“You grew up with all those aliens running around with weird heads and funny looking gills on the sides of there butt cheeks,”
Um, no. Everyone I saw running around was a human with make-up or a puppet.
“so you're really, really sure life exists elsewhere.”
Not because of Star Trek, no.
“Then you belittle a book like the Bible because it rains on your Klingon parade,”
No, I belittle a book like the Bible because it holds the Earth to be flat, the sky to be solid, the sun to be rolling inside the sky, with the night off. Because it doesn’t believe plants, fish, or insects are living things. Because it says life begins at first breath. So, yeah, superstitious nonsense.
“even though there's tons of evidence to support it's claims.”
What claims would those be?
Like the prophecy that Tyre would be destroyed and never rebuilt?
The prophecy that Jesus would lead an army and drive the ‘invaders’ out of Israel?
The promise that Christ would return inside the lifetime of his listeners?
“Try to think critically, instead of relying on your feel good emotions.”
Where in this post Have i appealed to emotions?
“There is no scientific evidence for what you want to believe.”
Well, no. However, the math is mighty convincing.
“Until there is, science doesn't support your wishes...”
That’s not entirely true. Under certain conditions, life seems almost inevitable. Intelligence, not so much, but life, yes. And even if only .001% of the planets ever meet those conditions, there are so many planets out there, any number you pull out of your ass for the chances because inevitable.
Like, if the odds of life are 1 in a thousand per planet, and there are ten million planets, then that’s 10,000 to 1 a likelihood.
“no matter how many Trek conventions you go to.”
I don’t go to conventions for the science, just the community.