Secret Chief
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Do you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe?
If you are religious, what implications do you think the discovery of alien life would have on your beliefs?
What do you mean, "elsewhere" ?
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Do you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe?
If you are religious, what implications do you think the discovery of alien life would have on your beliefs?
For a religion almost as recent as Bahaii maybe you haven't given the LDS faith its due consideration.
I thought you were talking about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The existence of life on other planets is very different than believing in alien colonization and the source of humanity, which have no serious scientific evidence.
Do you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe?
If you are religious, what implications do you think the discovery of alien life would have on your beliefs?
Neither is pizza.If intelligent aliens were discovered to exist I imagine literalist would have to pretend they do not since they are not mentioned in the Bible.
Nor many, many other things. Oddly, fundamentalist/literalists often use those many things and do not declare they do not exist based on the Bible never mentioning them.Neither is pizza.
Do I think self-aware creatures capable of advanced technology like ours are out there? Well, we're here, so that's evidence such things are possible.Do you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe?
Nor many, many other things. Oddly, fundamentalist/literalists often use those many things and do not declare they do not exist based on the Bible never mentioning them.
So Mystic Pizza it is.Pizzas were revealed by mystical prophetic visions and those speaking in tongues.
Like the song says, “Ezekiel say the pizza way up in the sky!”Pizzas were revealed by mystical prophetic visions and those speaking in tongues.
Just BTW, how did you latch on to Meher baba?
If you believe this, don't blame theists when they talk about afterlife... although I think it tends to point to 'intelligent' life either being rare or dangerous (dark universe theory).
1) Yes, there are angels elsewhere in the universeDo you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe?
If you are religious, what implications do you think the discovery of alien life would have on your beliefs?
But you don't have to mention me by name as I prefer to go incognito. .1) Yes, there are angels elsewhere in the universe
That's why I'm treating you so nicely.... I just never know when it is an angel!But you don't have to mention me by name as I prefer to go incognito. .
Basically it's a lot less likely than in popular science imagination, and I'll lay out some pieces why below.Do you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe?
If you are religious, what implications do you think the discovery of alien life would have on your beliefs?
While life seems likely to be commonplace out there, it's popular to imagine Earth like worlds out there being common, but this 2nd expectation people have learned to have is not supported by the details of astrophysics observations and models, currently.It seems quite likely, in view of the numbers of planets there must be on which chemistry could occur, at the sort of reaction rates needed for life.
C S Lewis explored the idea in Out of the Silent Planet and its sequels. He was interested in another world that had not suffered the Fall.
I would take a different view from Lewis, in that to me, the Genesis story is the story of how Man acquired moral awareness and became morally responsible for his thoughts and actions, thereby inevitably losing his innocence in the process. This process would take place with any sentient beings at some stage.
I see nothing in the bible or Christian belief that would leave no room for another world, with or without morally aware beings made spiritually in the image of God, as we are said to be. They may have had, in their world, their own version of the Messiah, rather as in C S Lewis's Narnia stories.