Life on other planets

We can look to world history for real examples of what people do when contacting a new culture:Religions send missionaries to teach the heathen how to pray to the right imaginary figure.Scientists protect the new found cultures and study them for clues to understanding our own past.There are still numerous uncontacted peoples in places like New Guinea and Brazil. If what you said were true then why aren't the biologists down there now teaching them about Darwin? The only thing keeping the missionaries away are reputations for cannibalism and headhunting as well as more enlightened governments run by people with their own history of being colonized and converted.

Sorry Tuffers,The point is that we don't have to imagine what the Bible thumpers will do when they establish contact with another culture, we have examples from history that show they will attempt to convert them to their own religion. They do not, historically, bother to show how new-found religions fit into their own dogma. I can think of no examples that show otherwise.The point about biologists is just to show that the desire to force these newly found cultures to our own point of view can be resisted. We don't have to take up the white man's burden.