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Author Topic:   Extraterrestrial life and God.
nlerd
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Message 1 of 24 (549869)
03-11-2010 8:04 AM


Would absolute proof of intelligent extraterrestrial life break the faith of millions? Or would the faithful just find some way to fit it into the bible? Now I'm not saying that there is ANY proof of intelligent life other then on our planet. But if little green men (or big red women) landed in some big city to help man advance in technology (or enslave us all) how would it fit in with religions that have a creator (mostly Judeo-Chritian since its the one I know most about)? In whose image would the aliens be created in? They could even have vastly different morals and ways of seeing the universe.

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nlerd
Member (Idle past 3635 days)
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From: Minnesota
Joined: 03-03-2010


Message 15 of 24 (550112)
03-12-2010 7:13 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Flyer75
03-12-2010 4:44 PM


Re: starting to agree
There's allot not mentioned, a ton in fact, in the book of Genesis that science has discovered about life around us and the structures of cells, protein, ect. But the discovery of those, imo, hasn't disproved a creator either. There has been nothing discovered about the human body that disproves a creator. The discovery of alien life forms, again imo, is so significant that I feel it would have been mentioned.
Nothing can disprove the existance of a creator. But by the account in the bible it seems made clear that everything was made for man and man was made in God's image. If aliens were proven to exist (complex intellegent types or single cell kinds) what reason could a Christian come up with for their existance? That man isn't really as important to God as the bible makes it seem? Did God just get bored with all of the empty lifeless planets so he sprinkled some life on them?
This is a hypothetical discussion but it does seem likely that there is some kind of life out there somewhere in the cosmos.

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