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It would not change a thing
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How would life on another planet change your theology
- Thread starter amorphous_constellation
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sealchan
Well-Known Member
Abiogenesis simply means the origin of life from non-life and does not in any way presuppose it is spontaneous.
Your critique of previous research seems odd in that it criticizes an effort to reduce design as fundamentally flawed. This is analogous to criticizing an obviously more talented artist for not producing a masterpiece that you yourself couldnt produce in any case.
What were the scientist's modeling the environment they endeavored to create in their lab after?
In this context I must think of you rolling your eyes as a variant of Sarah's laugh.
Salvador
RF's Swedenborgian
Joseph Smith's beliefs in extraterrestrial life might have been influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote about his encounters with otherworldly spiritual beings.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Some people believe that to be the case. I think it's more likely that he got his ideas from the Bible.
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
Hadn't thought of that, that's a good possible thread question. What if the aliens had our religions even if there was never any previous contact
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
Well it doesn't need to be manned obviously. I don't know a lot about it, but in the sea, stromatolite was something that early life forms built up in layers. So if the bacteria did live there, maybe they accreted in stromatolite which would probably be easy to find if the place was covered in bacteria for a while
It has been very difficult, even here on earth where you don't have to lug a life-support system around, to find the handful of places on earth that MIGHT hold fossils three to four billion years old...it could take many lifetimes trying to find similar locations on Mars (consider here on earth that it's really been about 200 years in our more or less friendly environment)...once we get there with enough people and equipment to look meter by meter and dig into the surface...
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
Would it have to be that old though? Whatever it is, it could be any age right, If some tiny organism was producing a mass accretion
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
I honestly expect that aliens from another planet would have their own sense of a Divine, and their own indigenous religion that is for them. It would probably be similar to Judaism in that it would emphasize right behavior if nothing else, although it could include others things. Who knows. Babylon 5 comes to mind. Even the Membari, the most enlightened species, had religion that was a major deal for them. And humans of the future still had religion as well, for example, Susan Ivanova was Jewish and consulted a Rabbi in one episode.
Audie
Veteran Member
Mars in not a very geologically active place.
The surface does not get reworked the way it
does on earth.
True, but the working conditions are very difficult in person, in fact impossible with current technology. Even when humans get to Mars, perhaps in a couple of decades, it will still be exceptionally difficult to do the fieldwork.
Audie
Veteran Member
Audie
Veteran Member
Is there some reason to think that outer space monsters
would have a religion?
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
I have no reason to think that other sentient beings would lack similar sense of the divine.
Why would other sentient beings be "monsters?"
Audie
Veteran Member
I just like to call them that.
Whatcha got no reason to think besides a tinge
o' that anthrocentricpomorphizing is that those
hopeful monsters would have any of the same
wiring as we.
May as well figure they'd all think baby koala bears
are cute.
Who knows what short circuit leads to god-imagining
or addiction to RF.
How do you figure critters of far more distantly
related minds than an octopus would think like you?
(I'd say "us" as in "everybody" except even among people
there are those who dont do this god-belief thing)
If we are and we go extinct because of any number of reasons, what does that say about us?
Totally possible, but IMHO, unlikely being that here are galaxies much older than ours. The possibility of us being the first makes me feel rather lonely.
