If life was found on another planet?

Question

If we found life on another planet,
would religous fanatics finally give up?

or is small organic matter not enough?

If we found a fully developed alien race that didnt look anything like a human, wouldnt this counterdict god made man in his own image? what would the aliens evolutionary result be assumed as than?

my thought is religon has changed over time but it was always used to control the masses, whats your thoughts?

Answer 1

Fanatics, by definition, would not give up their beliefs...
As for some of their possible defenses....I'm in agreement with 'freebird'.
I too, think religion has been 'opium of the masses', and as such, like other drugs, it will continue to evolve to the needs of the populace...

Answer 2

I am certainly not an expert on religion and have only ready the King James version of the bible cover to cover, not the Koran, etc. But nothing in the bible says in any way that God ONLY created Man. Nothing says Earth was the only planet, etc. So other life elsewhere does not prove or disprove the Bible. I can't speak for religions other than Christians/Catholics. But there are MANY religions, Buddhism, Islam, and so many others I can't even recall most of their names. The bottom line is some people will always believe in God no matter what "evidence" they are show to the contrary, and some people would refuse to believe if God himself spoke to them. So no one here on Earth can answer your question with any great authority. My question would be why do you ask this question?

Answer 3

Religion adapts. Nothing significant would happen to most religions if another race were found. They'd find a way to justify it within their dogma. Possible justifications for Judeo-Christian faiths -

1. "The aliens were made after Adam and Eve"
2. "The Aliens were part of the animal life that humans were biblically given dominion over" (Given Human ego, I think this might gain acceptance)
3. "They're the devil's creation" (Historically, very popular and often used)
4. "They were created as challenges to the faithful (Already used successfully to explain the biblically undocumented American Indians and other "heathens")

Answer 4

Wait... I thought we were talking about aliens here?

lol, anyway, my belief is that any other being that isn't a creation of God, is something else. As in, not of God.

In other words, I would be very afraid that we had found demonic life forms, and so at that point I would pray my but off. Answer your question?

Answer 5

i think you have been on the pipe a little to long bro. i believe in aliens, and i believe in god, but who says god did not make the aliens, the universe is huge, why should earth be the only life-filled planet, i only have theories on this, not fact, no one will ever know the truth about any of this until the end, whatever you may believe comes at the end.

Answer 6

"Intelligence" is a vague and silly word having too may shades of meaning. We could say that an octopus is intelligent because it utilizes its relatively big brain to render intricate colorations over its skin to provide camouflage. In that respect it is very "intelligent" But I think what you are probably getting at is the human specialty, imagination. The ability to form and morph extraordinarily complex neural representations of the external world within our minds. For a species to evolve with this particular ability tertiary tool use (the use of tools to make other kind of tools) is almost certainly required. A prerequisite for this is bipedalism with hands free to enable this kind of work. These are the kind of considerations that would lead us to believe that extra-terrestrial species having the imaginations (and the important capability for exporting and externally storing imagination that we call language) that enable the evolution of technology. Timothy Taylor's book "The Artificial Ape" will give you some ideas on this aspect. My own latest book "The Goldilocks Effect: What Has Serendipity Ever Done For Us?" , a free download in e-book formats from the "Unusual Perspectives" website, will give you a much broader view.

Answer 7

Whether an alien life form looks like us or does not is of little
consequence. For me the appearance of an alien life form
would only strengthen my belief in GOD.

Answer 8

No, because they would say God create those living things too.

I do think that religion was made up to control people...but I don't know if I don't believe in God.

Answer 9

The bible says that God made man in His own image, but that doesn't necessarily mean His physical image.

Answer 10

it wouldn't contradict god making us in his image bc he could have made them in the image of his crap. you don't know. religion is outdated but gives people some thing to believe which is needed in today's culture