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Say that some day there was actual intelligent life found on some distant planet? How would this change your view of your god, or would it change your belief in religion as a hole? And please this is hypothetical so only answer that strive to really fufill the question.

2007-01-02 19:42:40 · 30 answers · asked by nycballin79 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Microscopic organisms have been found many times in space rocks. Many originating from Pluto. So it's already happened it's just not the big spaceship building civilization kind of life most people think of.

2007-01-02 19:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by Lillithin 3 · 0 1

Funny thing, but I asked this very same question in my freshman college course, Religion 101, at a Catholic university many eons ago and my teacher kicked me out of his class and flunked me! Honest.

Apparently, I must've blind-sided him enough to embarrass him in front of the class since he was stumped. At least he could have admitted that he didn't know and could've gotten back to me with some other response. But I digress.

Over the years, I did find out "the answer" for my own self should such a scenario occur --whether hypothetical or not. I now know that it WOULD NOT ALTER my personal view and my RENEWED FAITH in God at all. The realization of any OTHER LIFE [intelligent or otherwise] from some distant planet/s would simply be an AFFIRMATION of God, the Almighty CREATOR.

And by "belief in religion", I presume you mean belief in the doctrines and traditions of an/any ORGANIZED Church perhaps? If that is the case, then it would not change my stand either, since I left the RC Church many years ago...

But I do strive to follow The Law and the Sevenfold Teachings of Yeshua Messiah/Jesus the Christ [pbuh].

Peace be with you!

2007-01-03 04:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0 0

I am Wiccan and it would not effect me at all becasuse I figure they have their own religions

I think of it like this. there was a time when people beleived that their little part of the world was all there was, but when exporers started landing they found out they too had religions, so if we were to have visitors from other planets visit earth I thnk they would bring their religion with them like the explorors from other conutries did.

I was taught in the fifties and sixties that Colombus discovered America, but after growing up I found later that they found evidecne that the vikings discovered america long before colombus did. The Vikings were not christian so they did not convert the heathen natives because they tyensleves were heathen.

Since you asked this question, I wonder how we would feel if people from another planet came here, setteled and forced us to convert to their religion. I doubt their religion would be christian or anything we know here on earth as religion.

2007-01-03 03:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

100 million years ago, when dinosaurs not humans ruled the planet, there was only one God. I don't think intelligent life on other planets would change my opinion as much as help me appreciate the concept of infinity. And hopefully the other lifeforms won't find human beings tasty :-) Not that long ago I watched "Contact" for about the 5'th time and think it a good movie for others pondering this question. At least 5X I've watched it and at least 5X I've cried when Jodie Foster realizes that she doesn't have to embrace the religious Dogma of others to find her own relationship with the Force that created her.

2007-01-03 04:04:54 · answer #4 · answered by johnthejust 1 · 0 0

My personal first question would be to ask about their religion and their concept of God. If they had an identical Bible, that would be the A answer. If they had a set of religious beliefs that closely tracked ours, at least in principle, that would be the B answer. It would be very troubling if they had no religion, as is most often portrayed on sci-fi movies. Worst case, they are the aliens from Independence Day and they start dousing me with sauce and spices.

2007-01-03 03:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 0 0

All Religous texts talk about God creating the world and all life. The world being restricted to earth, sun , moon and the stars which were visible with the naked eye. Life meant life on planet earth and mammals, fish, plants & flowers. No Religous text talks about life outside of earth. Till date we have not discovered alien life, hence the religous texts cannot be disputed. However the day alien life is discovered it will again prove that Religous texts missed another important point. You see these texts were written by ordinary guys and is a reflection of the common knowledge of their times. No Religous text talks about dinosaurs or evolution or gives any accurate measurement of true history, time & space of the galaxy , the reason being that, this knowledge was not known to the world at the time of it being written. Man created God and different people & cultures put their beliefs in text form and scribbled down what they assumed was accurate. Every different group of religous bigots had their own set of explanations - just no proof to back what they said - except for an all encompassing explanation "God moves in strange ways". Who knows if alien life exists, but if it does, it will come with its own set of Gods and consequent claims of their God creating the world for them and them being created by their God in his or her image. Oh what a blast !

2007-01-03 04:05:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"religion as a hole" - LOL! That's a perfect description. Seriously, if intelligent life was found on another planet, it had BETTER be identical in every way to the human race or Christians are going to have a lot of explaining to do. "Made in God's image", right?

2007-01-03 03:59:25 · answer #7 · answered by no_religious_spam_please 1 · 0 0

I do not see life on another planet in contradiction with religion here on earth. Christ still died for the sin of all men here on earth. We have just little pea brains compared to that of God... we so often try to supercede His ways... tho no matter how intelligent we find ourselves to be here on this great planet... our intelligence is minimal to that of God. There is so much we dont even begin to understand... tho we like to think we know it all.
My view of my faith would never change for any reason and I will never limit the power and being of God.

2007-01-03 03:49:53 · answer #8 · answered by lindasue m 3 · 0 0

The encounter with intelligent beings in the other world is only one small step like tribal people meeting other human beings overseas in the past. For our narrow mind, it is some giant step; but for the enlightened mind, it is really not so significant as the discovery of fire, of electricity and of other energies...
The greatest mystery that the Messengers of the One True God have taught is selfless love. The greater effort we make in this field of learning, the greater happiness and glory we will attain.

2007-01-03 04:03:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It wouldn't change a thing actually. Why wouldn't God be a God of other worlds. After all, if God always "was" and man has only been around for 6000 years about, what was he doing before the Earth?

2007-01-03 03:46:14 · answer #10 · answered by Coool 4 · 0 0

I am open minded, and your quesion is a good one. I would view god in the same way as before and my religion would not change. That is just like people believing in ghosts, aliens, and the like, but saying they are christians, I am not a christian in the since that I go to church every sunday, walk around qutoting bible scriptures and the like, but I believe in god that a god exits, but I also believe that we are not alone in this universe, and for man to think that he is the ultimate being is arrogant.

2007-01-03 03:47:26 · answer #11 · answered by Nyema 3 · 0 0

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