On Oct 3, 1:27 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess I'm more convinced now of the existence of extraterrestrial > life than anything religious being true. I can't see why any general > principles of love and the rest should change because other life is > out there - yet given the sickening propensity of our religions to > inspire elitism amongst adherents (chosen people and other junk) and > clown attempts to know better than everyone else, would ET turning up > be a reason for people to change views? Mars has an atmosphere that > is saturated with water vapour at some times in its solar cycle,we are > finding planets. Personally, I rather hope for a set of really tough > aliens. Rather cost fellows in other ways they put conquered > creatures on their knees for a last prayer to god. When you turn and > say you'd rather have a beer they give you a key to a free bar > anonists?d a free pass to their university of the intelligent > universe. But what is the significance of ET being real for > religionists?
None, in truth. No more so than the Earth revolving around the Sun. God would still remain the Creator of all life forms, so extra- terrestrials would only serve to expound on God's omnipotence and likeness for variety. Given the fact that they can reach the Earth, that pre-supposes intelligence; that would, then, support an 'intellicentric' view rather than an anthropomorphic view, which I believe would be FAR more correct and, in fact, it is a theme of my book.
