Why do religious people deny that there is other life In the Universe?

Answer 1

I don't think they do. I would be the atheist that would deny it because there is no proof. They don't take anything on faith, it must be proven to them to believe it, so I would think the religious person would be more open minded to that than the atheist.

Answer 2

I am a "religious person". I do not deny that there is life on other worlds in the Universe..I just don't think we will ever "contact" them. Still I run the Seti screen saver to look for intelligent life... First we would have to overcome tremendous distances. Thousands of light years..Then we would have to exist on the same technological level at the same time..so we could read signals..then the "others" would have to want contact as much as we do..What if they live at the bottom of great oceans and don't care about stars..suppose their whole technological effort is to better music, and they have no interest in space?

Answer 3

I think that's mainly a characteristic of fundamentalists who believe the Bible word for word. I have talked to many religious people who think it's very logical there could be other intelligent life in the Universe. In fact, I don't see how a belief in God and a belief in extra-terrestrial live are incompatible. If you make the assumption that God put life on Earth, there is no reason to believe God didn't put life on other planets in other solar systems.

But I do think many religious people are reluctant to make that leap because they think might be blasphemous to believe that Earth isn't the center of the Universe.

Keep in mind that I am atheist and these are only my observations based on talking to religious people.

vangyblue: It is considered a violation to post "tt" just to get your answer in the first position. It is also dishonest.

Answer 4

How can we deny what we don't know yet? I'm sure at some point in history people would have denied I could whisper something here in Ireland and it would be heard in Australia - but we all know that modern technology makes it possible. So we haven't found other life yet - that does not mean it isn't out there, although it may not look like the life forms we have here.

Answer 5

I am 70 years old and I have never heard a "religious" person say there is no other life in the universe. I read the Bible just about everyday and I think there are people in other universes.

Answer 6

You know humans are probably the only entities arrogant enough to believe that in this vast, vast Universe we are the only intelligent life. If that's true God has a great sense of humor. No seriously, I am a Christian and I am absolutely sure that there is intelligent life on many other planets. If you had the whole Universe to use your creative powers in any way you chose would you think that Earth was your best endeavor????????

Answer 7

I am religious and I do not deny this. If you could see my answer to a question asked about this last week or so, you would see that MY answer was chosen as the best one.
I said that there was a possibility, even a probability, that there was life on other planets.

You made an error in your generalization. It pays NOT to generalize.

Answer 8

They don't. At least I don't think so. I'm an atheist and I don't see any evidence of life-similar-to-us yet. I don't think that one's religiosity or lack of, has anything to do with their belief in other life in the universe. After all, there's nothing in the Bible about North and South America, but religious people and atheists alike believe that there is life there.

Answer 9

As if life wouldn't exit. How nbarrow minded would you have to be to assume that in a universe as large as ours (which we can't even see the ends of) there would not be a planet capable of sustaining life. Maybe not life as we know it, with people or organisms the same as we have on earth, but still life.

Maybe they're still thinking that because everything revolves around the earth nothing of any importance can possibly exist anywhere else.

I don't believe in god (or at least in religion) but it there WAS a god, couldn't she have created many worlds, if she's all seeing and all knowing?

Answer 10

I think religious leaders need to solve earthly problems first. Finding life in other Universe is another thing. They need to first get over the superiority complex. Every religion tries to prove their superiority. Christians puts Jesus up there, Jews are still waiting for their savior, Hindus are going in cycles,...
each is sure about their beliefs, but puts down the other belief.
Recognize and respect each other. Grow as humans first...