Intellegant Life

[Moey]

If we were to discover intelligent life in the universe would that justify the people that belive in evolution?

How would the religious people feel about that? Would that mean that everything you believed in was wrong?

 

[Bishka]

If we were to discover intelligent life in the universe would that justify the people that belive in evolution?

To be honest, I would believe that God created that intelligent life, so it wouldn't budge me one way or the other.

How would the religious people feel about that? Would that mean that everything you believed in was wrong?

God created EVERYTHING; intelligent and non-intelligent life. Animate and inanimate; created by our Creator.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I think it is certain there is other life in the universe;
some more intelligent than us.

I am not so certain we will ever find it.
Our theories on time and space will need to be revised drastically for us
to ever be able to make contact over such distances.

 

[cardero]

To be honest, I would believe that God created that intelligent life, so it wouldn't budge me one way or the other.

Yes but what if that intelligent life as proclaimed in the Bible was God?

 

[Bishka]

Yes but what if that intelligent life as proclaimed in the Bible was God?

You mean that we 'found' God?

 

[cardero]

You mean that we 'found' God?

I mean that if an intelligent lifeform had the means and sophistication to tranverse time and space and intervened on humankind at the time of a primitive society as mentioned in the Old and New Testament’s claiming to be the same God as mentioned in the Bible, would it effect your belief and understanding of what you know of the scriptures?

 

[Kungfuzed]

If we were to discover intelligent life in the universe would that justify the people that belive in evolution?

How would the religious people feel about that? Would that mean that everything you believed in was wrong?

If we found human beings on another planet that just might be enough to convert me back to LDS. They believe that God created many worlds and placed His children on them.

However, if we discovered intelligent life on other planets that were vastly different from ourselves, that would confirm my current beliefs.

 

[Moey]

I think that if we found something that proclaimed itself to be god than far too many people would believe it without any proof. I never remember learning in sunday school about god creating other lifeforms on other worlds.

 

[Kungfuzed]

I think that if we found something that proclaimed itself to be god than far too many people would believe it without any proof. I never remember learning in sunday school about god creating other lifeforms on other worlds.

Like Cortez and the Incas?

 

[Willamena]

If we were to discover intelligent life in the universe would that justify the people that belive in evolution?

Justify them in what? Their powers of observation?

How would the religious people feel about that? Would that mean that everything you believed in was wrong?

Well, this particular religious person would welcome such intelligent aliens.

 

[Moey]

Well, this particular religious person would welcome such intelligent aliens.

I am happy to hear that. What i meant was that people are arguing over weather god created everything or if everything evolved and continues to evovle. I understand that people need something to believe in.

My question was simply what if? How would it affect the religious community if at all?

 

[Willamena]

I am happy to hear that. What i meant was that people are arguing over weather god created everything or if everything evolved and continues to evovle. I understand that people need something to believe in.

My question was simply what if? How would it affect the religious community if at all?

The "religious community" encompasses a lot of different beliefs, and only some of them would be impacted at all. I suspect that for those who are materialists and/or literalists, it might be a problem.

 

[Moey]

Materialists?

 

[Prometheus]

I think it is certain there is other life in the universe;
some more intelligent than us.

I am not so certain we will ever find it.
Our theories on time and space will need to be revised drastically for us
to ever be able to make contact over such distances.

Agreed, but distance is not as big an obstacle as time, I would say. Considering the universe is 13.7 billion years old and we've only been able to understand space for maybe...a thousand years? And that's being charitable about it. Millions of civilizations may have come and gone before us and many more will follow. To get two species of intelligent life in the same blink in time in the same very close area is very improbable.

 

[MdmSzdWhtGuy]

If we were to discover intelligent life in the universe would that justify the people that belive in evolution?

How would the religious people feel about that? Would that mean that everything you believed in was wrong?

Did anyone besides me notice that this guy mis-spelled "intelligent" (intellegant) sorry, but the irony was a bit more than I could handle.

B.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

If we were to discover intelligent life in the universe would that justify the people that belive in evolution?

How would the religious people feel about that? Would that mean that everything you believed in was wrong?

"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. " -Calvin

 

[logician]

Evolution is fact whether or not intelligent life is found elsewhere.

 

[gnostic]

What if the intelligent life on other planets don't believe in God or gods?

Or that their gods are totally different to our? Or that they have scriptures totally different from what we have here?