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"The search for extraterrestrial life is really driven by mans rebellion against God in a desperate attempt to supposedly prove evolution.... Christians certainly shouldnt expect alien life to be cropping up across the universe"
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Sorry, ET and all those souless aliens out there (indeed if there are any), doomed to the pit because they are not under the umbrella of Christ's saving grace.
This is why Christian fundamentalist are so damn dangerous. If they had their way science would non-existant.
WACK-A-DOODLE time:
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/07/20/well-find-a-new-earth-within-20-years/
Pholus
(4,062 posts)LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)drove to the Metro - Stop, Drop and Roll won't work in Hell. Made me smile.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)A creationist and genesis as truth guy tells us what motivates scientific exploration.
Many secularists want to discover alien life hoping that aliens can answer the deepest questions of life: Where did we come from? and What is the purpose and meaning of life?
We have extensive knowledge of where "we came from", down a couple billion year long path that began with some organic compounds. Search for and discovery of extraterrestrial life may bring us some new knowledge about the processes by which such organic compounds can arise. The current focus, limited to looking for "new earths", which are planets with significant carbon and water in the "habitable zones" of their star systems, really has as a primary goal determining more about how earth-like life can evolve.
My personal hope and expectation is that if Homo sapiens and/or some descendant species ever does manage to visit other solar systems and galaxies, the life forms discovered will include many beyond the limits of our current knowledge - non-DNA-based life certainly and perhaps some based on entirely different chemistry like swirling clouds of living gas in the atmosphere of some hot or cold giant planet. I humor myself about this expectation with a little ditty that singer-songwriter James Keelaghan uses to close one of his albums:
Some folks think that life is commonplace
And evenly distributed through space
But as you travel around the galaxies
I am pretty sure you'll never see
Anything else with two legs and a face!
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)And we have to be special dammit.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)wish I had thought of that. Good one.