If alien life is proved, how would this affect your beliefs?

Question

This got me thinking; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6146292.stm?

If alien life was proved then surely this would undermine a lot of peoples religious beliefs or would they just change tact and say the supreme being (or whoever it is they worship) must have created the alien life as well?

Certainly puts a big question mark over the whole Adam and Eve version of creation!!!

Comments, thoughts, opinions anyone?

Answer 1

It would be the greatest thing that ever happened in respect to religion all that bullshit of creationism and religious intolerance will be washed away. For that matter all forms of control on this planet will be destroyed. It will happen. People cant deny this forever.

Answer 2

All life has been created no matter where it is from, and why Adam & Eve do you honestly think that there was only two people, not my belief,the world is a vast area and life was formed in many parts of it not just where it says it was.

The universe is vast so yes life also exsist there to, so whats your point?.

Answer 3

I asked a similar question last night. I figure that all our main religions came from the 'Holy Land' - it's the only place God ever bothered about, apparently. The drugs and wars must have been the attraction. But anyway, how would the Holy Land have got word out to the aliens on planet Zog? So it's guaranteed they haven't heard of God yet.

Answer 4

My beliefs are perfectly compatible with the discovery of ET life, which I am absolutely positive will happen... and perhaps even in our lifetimes. And religious people don't have anything to worry about; when they discover alien life, you know very well that Christianity and Islam will find some way to provide an answer for it.

Answer 5

It would not really bother me. I believe that God has spoken to multiple groups through many forms. It is not hard to extend that to aliens as well.


I do not see why it hurts the creations story. On this planet he created Adam and Eve and on another planet he create others. Would it not actually strength the creation story if the aliens looked remotely like us. Many would/could say that he create both races in his own image,

Answer 6

Honestly, it wouldn't change my beliefs. I've always thought that the notion that we are the only life in the entire universe to be a little arrogant. This would certainly knock everybody down a peg or two.

Answer 7

It wouldn't affect me. As a Pagan, I believe in multiple creators and what gets called "spirits of place" or "local spirits" (in other words, guardians of a particular area of the world.) So they probably got their own creators and spirits of place. The pantheon just becomes bigger, is all.

I also believe, seeing the scientific evidence, that there must be life on other planets. There are other yellow stars like our sun, with other planets around it--it seems really far-fetched to me to think that ours is the only planet out of the many-many out there that supports life.

Answer 8

It wouldnt change my thoughts at all
It says in the bible God has created countless worlds
It also says Adam and eve were the first man and women, We have no clue how long they were in the GArden of Eden it could of been 10000000000000000000000000000 years

Also the aliens i have "seen"(on tv books ansd such) of what people think they look like dont look too Human,

Answer 9

Personally I think it's irrational and arrogant that to think in an infinite (or nearly so) universe, that this is the only speck of dust that has life on it.

I'd be more shocked and surprised to learn that there WASN'T other life in the universe.

Answer 10

Why do you think it puts big question mark over Adam and Eve version of creation?
I don't think it does. I believe there are lives on another places in the universe, but I don't think they are like E.T, Alf...etc :) I don't need any proof for that and it changes nothing in my beliefs.