Very similar to my more serious take Pat, still looking forward to the book! Glad you can make it by here lately. :)
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. >
