Phone Home... NASA astrobiological finding...

Saw this on Twitter yesterday. But, all I've been able to think of so far was the book Deception Point.(which maybe 3 people on here MAY have read.)


On the topic of astro-biology, I have a theological question for  you, and I think it at least sort of falls under the jurisdiction of this thread.

Would the discovery of life on other planets effect your religious faith/beliefs at all?

I know when I talk to people about the potential for extraterrestrial life, they act as if it should shatter my belief system/The Bible because it doesn't mention life on other planets. 

My response has always been that it would have no reason to be in the Bible. And while I'm a New Testament person myself, the entire Bible is really a religious "history" of Earth, and thus doesn't TRY to disprove life elsewhere.

Anyhoo, I thought this would be a decent Sub-topic people could discuss in this thread as well.

Wouldn't bother me at all if other life was found. Certainly wouldn't affect my thoughts on God or my belief.

FreeEnterprise wrote: Would they have free wills and be similar to humans

Humans don't actually have free will. It's just an illusion.

Oh lawd.

Rofl_Mao wrote: "We found life. The only problem is that it is intelligent and hostile and is coming straight for us and will be here at around 5pm EST. Have a nice day! "

If this is it, then I'll regret living in such a small town. Nothing good to loot around here.

Possibly they've identified a planetary mass with some sort of atmospheric or other indicators that fit much closer than anything previously discovered to being able to support life as we know it?

You know what stretches the mind: science.

Whale, as often as I am against FE, I feel like you're grasping at straws here.


There is a large portion of the scientific community that disagrees with NASA having such a stranglehold on the American space industry, especially when the private sector could fund it so much more easily. I don't think FE was saying this type of search shouldn't be conducted, merely that we shouldn't be writing blank checks to fund it, because the government wants to keep control over it.

Ironically enough, that is also brought up in Deception Point.


Except for that last part, my belief in God does not encompass him taking the time to heal broken arms and runny noses.

I still can't wait for the day someone/thing sets down on earth with thier intergalictic ship, and the worlds 1950's-80's Science Fiction series response is still that we are superior. We will kinda be like the early New England natives as the european sailing ships appeared off the coasts with massive four legged animals with a metal clad beings mounted on them, carrying 'firesticks' that killed. And as the Indians looked at thier war canoes, and bows, and still proclaimed they were superior to these 'animals' that just landed. And we know how well that all worked out.

Rofl_Mao wrote: So.... what happened?

Small Pox bro. Aliens are bringing it back. Hidden in space blankets.