What is your response to this cosmological question (see details)?

Question

Consider reading this slowly so it sinks in before responding:

We all live on the Earth, which is a planet in a (now) 8-planet solar system.

The sun resides in the Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy contains 200,000,000,000 - to - 400,000,000,000 (200 billion - to - 400 billion) stars, of which our sun is only one. (For comparison, there are approximately 6.5 billion people alive on the Earth, of which you are only one.)

Additionally, there are approximately 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) galaxies in the observeable universe. The average galaxy appears to contain between 10,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000,000 (between 10 million and 1 trillion) stars.

What relevance would your faith have to the statistically likely population of a planet that circles one of those stars held in one of those galaxies in our observeable universe? What parts of the message (from your prophet, savior, sacred texts, etc.) would do you believe would matter to those other beings?

Fireball: That's not even Biblical. John's gospel said that "God so loved the world...." How is that relevant to a resident of the Andromeda galaxy that is not even human?

Preacher: You've dodged the question. What part of God's truth would you consider relevant to these creatures living millions of light years away?

FCI:
a) Humans evolved on this planet, and the likelihood of an exact parallel set of environmental stressors and random mutations existing on another planet is so outlandish that it is more likely that any life is non-human.
b) I don't understand your statement here.
c) I had in no way tried to imply that religious texts suggested life beyond earth. Instead, I asked the question to see if faith matters beyond our own planet.
d) In part, you are right. Communication with other beings is at this time not possible. However, since religion is timeless, I ask you to assume a future time when this question must be dealt with. For the moment, it is an intellectual exercize, but 100 years ago, so was speculation about interplanetary travel.

Answer 1

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. (also known as karma, or the rule of three...same lesson, different words)

There's a bible passage in which Jesus says "What you have done to the least of my brothers, so you have done to me."

I admittedly don't know the bible well enough to tell you where it's from, and truthfully, I think people getting the message is more important than knowing where it came from. The lesson is basically the same: be nice!! Treat people with respect and kindess. That transcends just about any language or cultural barrier.

Answer 2

First I must confess, I do not belong to a religious group...anymore. I would answer if asked if I am still a practicing Catholic, "I got really good at it so I quit."

Now to answer your question and to explode the heads of those who intepret the bible "literally", Jesus said, " In my father's house their are many mansions."

I believe that Jesus was refering to the MANY MANY other civilizations, lifeforms and states of being that exist not just in the Universe, but indeed, in the Omniverse as well.

Humans 2,000 years ago did not have the scientific background, the vocabulary or anything close to resembling a sophisticated understanding of anything but the very simple lives they led. Jesus didn't attempt to mess up their heads by talking over their ability to understand. He spoke to them as if they were children.
(Come to me as a little child) , and he told them stories that held lessons and information that was not completely understood by most who heard or read those words.

Even his comment about, "I have food that you know not of" was a reference to a more cosmic energy source that could sustain a body through breath better and longer than human food.

The "other flocks to tend" quote would also be very relevant to off Earth visitors and wouldn't Pat Robertson be freaked out to know that the folks on Alpha Centauri know Jesus by another name. And Buddha and Krishan and Mohamed and all the other ascended masters we claim as Earth "team" members.

Perhaps those ET visitors could also explaint to the Christian Right what being "caught up in the air" at the "rapture" actually means... Can you say "Beam Me Up Scotty?"

And how about that "star" that shown over Bethlehem and "guided the wise men to the manger... Hovering spacecraft using a focsed light source for several days. What else would people 2,000 ago have called it but "a star"? They didn;t have the word space craft in their vocabulary then.

Answer 3

Well; certainly there is life everywhere. Would make no sense only earth, we are like a grain of sand.Long ago I thought if a alien ever took me I would ask, Do you know God.But after many years of study,I think they are Angels and Demons as the holy bible is just full of U.F.O. encounters,wheels of fire.flaming chariots. God speaking from a bush of fire that does not burn.Ezekiel seeing a wheel within a wheel.etc. also all ancient texts describe Gods coming down from the heavens.even the Koran with Mohammad night trip to Heaven on a white horse with the face of a woman.I think one God created all,and i think aliens are above humans.

Answer 4

3 fallacies. 4 extremely - you're saying they're pholosophical. they do no longer seem to be they're medical. Even the final one. "Nature's great biodiversity is in simple terms too complicated to be the top results of evolution", It isnt - from a single cellular to a human (and all different residing issues) in 3 billion years. study Blind Watchmaker and the suitable show in the international the two by skill of Richard Dawkins for concentrated clarification "Land vegetation can't improve in an ecosystem that has no pre-existent organic and organic components interior the soil subsequently the soil is intelligently designed" Land vegetation got here alongside way after different multi-celled organisms like micro organism and so on had fertilised the soils "each and every house is being built by skill of guy, yet He who built all issues is God" No data that an identical procesess operated the great Bang as operates evolution. So it doesnt want a single writer. God would not exist. QED.

Answer 5

Science says that we are at exactly the right distance from the
Sun. A little further and we would freeze. A little closer and we would burn up.
Did you know the reality is that the Sun is not hot enough to
heat the Earth? It is cold in the upper atmosphere and out
in space. It's just that certain properties of the Sun, the x-rays,
bring out certain properties in the Earth. Oxygen and hydrogren, and that's what heats the Earth.
I learned that from a buddhamaster.

Answer 6

faith and god means nothing the earth is like a grain of sand on a beach i am a none beleaver so i get this religion means nothing in the vastnes of space but i bet you all the christians are gowing to say the is a god out there

Answer 7

a) How do you know that there are no other humans out there?
b) Based on your numbers with no calculations I assume you have no idea as to percentage of extraterrestrial life.
c) The assumption of having text tell us the existence of other worlds would hardly have anything to do with Earth now would it?
d) Since we have no way of communications with said beings, isn't the question highly insignificant to religion?

Answer 8

The bible tells us Universe was only created 6000 years ago. In 6000 years light only goes 6000 light years. So all those stars in the sky that appear to be more than 6000 light years away do not exist. They are only illusions created by god to test our faith.

Answer 9

OoOoO. i think your talking to mathamatical, to statistically, to much probability to people of faith. if they had any sense of logic or knowledge of statistics they wouldnt deny the probability of life on other planets and how insignificant we truly might be

Answer 10

God's truth has relevance to everything.