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Would your beliefs be affected if...
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dyanaprajna2011
Dharmapala
It wouldn't. Buddhists believe life exists on other planets anyway. So it wouldn't come as a big surprise to us.
I would be upset that I didn't have a camera with me, but it wouldn't change my spiritual beliefs.
This would change absolutely nothing about my beliefs in any way. Literally 0%
CynthiaCypher
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Are the aliens hostile or friendly?
Sadly... many so-called intelligent people are holding out thinking something like this is possible. But God of the Bible?... nah, those people believe in fairy tales.
dyanaprajna2011
Dharmapala
While I don't think we'll ever get to meet an alien for a long, long time, at least, how does accepting the idea of intelligent life on other planets compare with believing in a god that we can't see, hear, etc? Or were you getting at something else?
It probably would not affect my religious beliefs, since I tend to view that term with dogma. I no longer try to reconcile my beliefs about life, or God, with any particular dogma.
It probably would change my beliefs about life, though. I don't see how that level of confirmed information would not alter some previously held assumptions about how things are. I think I'd have to wait and see what information they actually presented, in order to know what beliefs that information would alter.
Although, I am pretty much already inclined to believe that within the immensity of the known universe, it seems improbable to me that there would not be other intelligent life out there.
It probably would change my beliefs about life, though. I don't see how that level of confirmed information would not alter some previously held assumptions about how things are. I think I'd have to wait and see what information they actually presented, in order to know what beliefs that information would alter.
Although, I am pretty much already inclined to believe that within the immensity of the known universe, it seems improbable to me that there would not be other intelligent life out there.
Gharib
I want Khilafah back
it wouldn't affect my beliefs in any way, i'd just do what one scholar once said, make dawah* to them, they have every right to be called to and be part of islam and it's adherents.
*dawah means calling or informing people about islam.
arthra
Baha'i
Actually it would confirm the Baha'i Writings:
The learned men, that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets. Consider, moreover, the manifold divergencies that have resulted from the theories propounded by these men. Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
~ Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 162
"...It cannot be imagined that the worlds of existence, whether the stars or this earth...were without man!"
Abdul-Baha in Some Answered Questions p. 197
See:
Intelligent Life in the Universe and Exotheology in Christianity and the Baha'i Writings
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St Giordano Bruno
Well-Known Member
Except the concept of God and many of the heavenly beings spoken of in the bible are so called supernatural and extraterrestrials aliens are not. Those "aliens" would be just natural beings made of atoms like you and I but what substance is God and his angels made of?
If you cannot see an Intelligent Designer or God in the creation of hyper-complex life here on this planet, then I do not see how I can penetrate your “reasoning” from other means, or by answering some of your tangential questions above.
Many forces are invisible, and the evidence for a spirit world lays claim to its authenticity or being real, yet invisible to the human eye. You need to give God credit for being able to makes himself invisible if he can also take a dung beetle and turn it into a human brain and creature over time. At least, that is what you all believe happened.
Whether there is intelligent life on other planets or not is about as moot as it can get when it comes to how man should order his own life in their very short time of existence. Don’t ask yourself “are there martians out there?” to satisfy your curiosity, ask yourself “Is there a God?, Why am I here?, What happens when I die?”
Science’s greatest sin is pride. They are foolish enough to think they are in control of this universe and can alter fate by their discoveries in the material world. And they refuse to acknowledge the possible presence of an intelligent spirit connection because “that is not our study or concern.” That’s nothing more than a pitiful excuse. They are cowardly in not publicly connecting dots whence they are outside of their classrooms. No, scientists are too afraid of losing their status and reputations so they remain silent or go the safe route with group think.
This one from Jonathan Swift (17th century English satirist) who once pointed out the biggest problem with science and its “smugness” --- which has only become more noteworthy by today's attempt to remove God from any thoughtful equation, philosophical or otherwise. He satirizes these people by saying:
"And he, whose fortunes and dispositions have placed him in a convenient station to enjoy the fruits of this noble art; he that can with Epicurus content his ideas with the films and images that fly-off upon his senses from the superficies of things; such a man truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. This is the sublime and refined point of felicity, called, the possession of being well deceived; the serene peaceful state of being a fool among knaves."
It would not affect my beliefs even a little bit.