On Oct 3, 1:16 pm, James Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > Very similar to my more serious take Pat, still looking forward to the > book! Glad you can make it by here lately. :) >
Thanks, James!! BTW, we may be related. My father's father's mother was a 'Lynch'; so, we could, very well, be distant cousins of some variety. Perhaps, even as close as fourth or fifth cousins, depending on your background. The Lynch family from which I derive were from County Cork but immigrated to New Haven Connecticut. The Lynch I descend from was Annie E. Lynch, who married my great grandfather, John Jay Harrington. I thought I'd put it down just to see if it jives with any of your family's history. > > > 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
