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How would life on another planet change your theology

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
So NASA just said something today about the world not being ready for life on mars. I'm ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat? What would the world's religious leaders say? Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak? Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion? How would you react if your leaders said nothing?
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
No announcement about life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets would affect my religious/spiritual beliefs in any way.

I would suspect that it wouldn't greatly affect most people
 

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
So NASA just said something today about the world not being ready for life on mars. I'm ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat? What would the world's religious leaders say? Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak? Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion? How would you react if your leaders said nothing?

It would just confirm what Baha'u'llah has offered.

Thus I see it will be confirmed

Regards Tony
 

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
So NASA just said something today about the world not being ready for life on mars. I'm ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat? What would the world's religious leaders say? Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak? Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion? How would you react if your leaders said nothing?

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if scientists were to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. I suspect there is indeed a mark of extraterrestrial intelligence embedded within our genetic code; this as evident by how the numeric and semantic message of 037 appears in our genetic code. Each codon relates to 3 other particular codons having the same particular type of initial nucleobase and sequential nucleobase subsequently then followed by a different ending nucleobase. Half of these 4 set of codon groups ( whole family codons ) each code for the same particular amino acid. The other half of those 4 set of codon groups ( split codons ) don't code for the same amino acid. So then, in the case of whole family codons, there are 37 amino acid peptide chain nucleons for each relevant nucleobase determinant of how a particular amino acid gets coded. Start codons express 0 at the beginning of 37 Hence, the meaningful numeric and semantic message of 037 gets unambiguously and factually conveyed to us descendants of our cosmic ancestor(s) with our genetic code invented by a superior intelligence beyond that of anybody presently bound to Earth.

“There is no plausible chemical logic to couple directly the triplets and the amino acids. In other words, the principles of chemistry where not the sought essence of the genetic code”

“The zero is the supreme abstraction of arithmetic. Its use by any alphabet, including the genetic code, can be an indicator of artificiality.”

"The place-value decimal system represented through digital symmetry of the numbers divisible by prime number (PN 037). This arithmetical syntactic feature is an innate attribute of the genetic code. The PN 037 notation with a leading zero emphasizes zero's equal participation in the digital symmetry. Numbers written by identical digits are devised by PN 037*3=111 and 1+1+1=3 and appear regularly [from the figure: 037*6 =222 and 2+2+2=6, 037*9=333 and 3+3+3 =9, 037*4=444 and 4+4+4=12, 037*15=555 and 5+5+5=15, 037*18=666 and 6+6+6=18, 037*21=777 and 7+7+7 =21. 037*24 =888 and 8+8+8=24, 037*27=999 and 9+9+9=27.)"

"There is a complete set of information symbols utilizing the decimal syntax 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, 999 in the genetic code. Each of these symbols consists uniformly of a carrier (balanced nucleons) and a meaning (the decimal syntax)."

Reference: The "Wow! signal" of the terrestrial genetic code. Vladimir l. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov.Redirectinghttps://www.scribd.com/document/35302916...netic-Code

This informational and artificial characteristic of the WOW signal of the terrestrial genetic code indicates extraterrestrial intelligent design.

This intelligent signal transmitted via genetic code that has been documented and confirmed by scientists researching the WOW signal of the terrestrial genetic code is prima facie evidence for an extraterrestrial-based intelligent designer.

The authors who discovered this mark of intelligence embedded in our genetic code show that "the terrestrial code displays a thorough precision-type orderliness matching the criteria to be considered an informational signal. Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of the same symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing rather than of stochastic processes (the null hypothesis that they are due to chance coupled with presumable evolutionary pathways is rejected with P-value < 10–13). The patterns are profound to the extent that the code mapping itself is uniquely deduced from their algebraic representation. The signal displays readily recognizable hallmarks of artificiality, among which are the symbol of zero, the privileged decimal syntax and semantical symmetries. Besides, extraction of the signal involves logically straightforward but abstract operations, making the patterns essentially irreducible to any natural origin. Plausible ways of embedding the signal into the code and possible interpretation of its content are discussed. Overall, while the code is nearly optimized biologically, its limited capacity is used extremely efficiently to pass non-biological information."

Reference: The "Wow! signal" of the terrestrial genetic code. Vladimir l. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov.Redirectinghttps://www.scribd.com/document/35302916...netic-Code

Exactly who/what left its/their mark in our genetic coding might not ever get determined by anybody presently bound to Earth. The search for our cosmic relatives and cosmic common ancestor likely then needs to be done with advanced space exploration. I'd like to urge you then to please advise our Senate, Congress and President to expand our tax-payer funded resources for advance space exploration.
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
Why would they make statements about the world not being ready? Who's not ready, and if why are they so important?

Religious or not, I think a lot of people would have a hard time letting go of the idea that we're the center of the universe.
 

David1967

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
It wouldn't. I already believe we can't possibly be the only ones in all the vastness of the Galaxy.
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Well there has to be a reason why they are being coy right? Why are they talking about this in the way they are right now?
I have no idea why a NASA official would talk like that. 70 years ago, I might agree. Even the scene in the original Men in Black makes some sense at the time.

But except for a few religious fundamentalists, I don't think most people would be much affected...especially if what they find is bacteria-like, and probably even more complicated...

Now, if it turns out that the UFO/Alien/Government conspiracy crowd are right, and NASA and the government has been actively hiding knowledge about alien life, then I think quite a few people will be rather upset with the government, and rightly so...but I am extremely doubtful that THAT is what was being talked about...
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat?

Yes, but not in the way you expect.

What would the world's religious leaders say?

A mixture, some would be for it, some against it, no different than any other ideological group.

Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak?

Why? :confused:

Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion?

Why? :confused:

How would you react if your leaders said nothing?

I don't care if they said anything or not. I know what it means. And much rejoice will be taking place.
 

Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
So NASA just said something today about the world not being ready for life on mars. I'm ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat? What would the world's religious leaders say? Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak? Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion? How would you react if your leaders said nothing?
Mormonism would probably say, "Well, duh. We've always believed that God created more worlds that just ours."
 

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
A mixture, some would be for it, some against it, no different than any other ideological group.

I don't know what you mean. If happened, it wouldn't be a matter of them being for it or against it since it really happened.

Yes, but not in the way you expect.

I'm quite rarely surprised


Why would it change your rules? Well, break open the bible and you'll see that many of the rules seem to revolve around a relation to the earth specifically. Your theological rights might change drastically or become quite amorphous in relation to living things outside this planet. For one, you wouldn't know if God created a lot of it. The book said he created the vegetation on the earth. You wouldn't even know if you could eat something up there if it was a vegetable or what not, because God gave man all the trees and fruits on the earth. And creature that creeps around on the earth are supposedly under man's dominion.
 
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dianaiad

Well-Known Member
So NASA just said something today about the world not being ready for life on mars. I'm ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat? What would the world's religious leaders say? Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak? Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion? How would you react if your leaders said nothing?

Wouldn't rock mine OR the belief system to which I belong. We expect it. We predicted it. The only thing that would 'rock our theology' is if we examined each and every planet in the universe and discovered that the earth is the only planet upon which life exists.

In other words, 'life on Mars" or anywhere else, would produce, from our leaders, a giant WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!

We were made fun of, a lot, in the nineteenth century when we WERE 'telling you so.'

(grin) Shoot, the only problem WE would have to discovering intelligent life on other planets is how to get the missionaries over there. Unless of course they send 'em to us, instead. Either way works.
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
I don't know what you mean. If happened, it wouldn't be a matter of them being for it or against it since it really happened.

It's simple. Some would encourage folks to leave and some would encourage folks to stay.

Your theological rights might change drastically or become quite amorphous in relation to living things outside this planet.

Nah


For one, you wouldn't know if God created a lot of it.

God created all of reality. That would include other planets, solar systems, galaxies.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
So NASA just said something today about the world not being ready for life on mars. I'm ready, it wouldn't even surprise me actually. However, would it rock the theological world's boat? What would the world's religious leaders say? Might it even put various institutions out of business so to speak? Create an impetus to add new explanatory scripture or rules to your religion? How would you react if your leaders said nothing?

The same might be said about Venus too, since apparently there is a good chance that it was very different than it is today and might have been capable of supporting life. Either way, Mars, Venus, or any other body, it might change the views of some but mostly this will just be incorporated into any dogma - as it tends to happen when reality bumps up against what has been taught by any religion.

I would be very surprised if we didn't eventually find signs of life somewhere, and possibly intelligent life. We might even find signs of extinct intelligent life too - which is possibly where we are heading unless we wake up and do something about the problems we face.
 
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