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re: How would the discovery of life on other planets affect us?
Posted on 3/22/14 at 3:14 am to The Calvin
Posted on 3/22/14 at 3:14 am to The Calvin
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Has to have an intelligent creator? I do not agree
What is your theory on how things became into being ? Sincere question.
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 3:24 am to MottLaneKid
quote:I believe in a Creator. To me, that is more logical/reasonable than the alternative.
What is your theory on how things became into being ? Sincere question
Which is...nothing somehow created something, and that something evolved by pure chance/impossible odds, into what we see today.
My sincere answer.
But to answer the OP's question. I think the discovery of intelligent life in or outside our solar system would be mind blowing. And how the world would react is anyone's guess.
This post was edited on 3/22/14 at 3:31 am
Posted on 3/22/14 at 6:36 am to The Calvin
Israel would call the US out as "weak".
The empty threats that will come from my first point will piss the most likely friendly aliens off.
Then the ET's kill us all.
The empty threats that will come from my first point will piss the most likely friendly aliens off.
Then the ET's kill us all.
This post was edited on 3/22/14 at 6:39 am
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:15 am to The Calvin
There are only 2 possibilities - either we are alone in the universe, meaning we are the only intelligent species in creation, or we aren't.
Either prospect is both amazing and frightening.
Either prospect is both amazing and frightening.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:17 am to The Calvin
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So, would the announcement of life on other planets strengthen your belief or shake it?
no impact
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:19 am to catholictigerfan
one more thing to think we are alone in the universe when you look at the size of it. I don't know the numbers but I'm sure in our galaxy alone (a mid sized galaxy I think) there are many planets and probably a few planets that could support life. Our Galaxy is a small drop in the bucket in the Universe. It is very very unlikely that life would only show up in one tiny place in the Milky Way. Other life may be hundreds of light years away from us maybe more but I would put money on it that somewhere in the universe there is life, maybe intelligent life.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:19 am to The Calvin
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Has to have an intelligent creator? I do not agree
Matter is neither created or destroyed. Is your belief that the universe is "constant" and relatively unchanging, i.e. "eternal"?
Or do you believe it is a dynamic rapidly changing, vibrant place and that we only perceive it otherwise because of our relatively short lives, and the relatively short, cosmically speaking, history of our species?
Because the evidence strongly points to the latter - and for that to be true, the Big Bang (or some derivation) is likely true. And that event strongly implies an initiating action.
Also, where did the genetic information for the very first life on Earth come from?
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:22 am to Ralph_Wiggum
I think the fact that scripture is silent on this issue is that 2000 years ago I doubt they even talked about the possibility of life outside of earth, so why would they talk about it in the Bible.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:40 am to The Calvin
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So, would the announcement of life on other planets strengthen your belief or shake it?
It wouldn't shake my faith at all. I don't try to limit God or presume to guess about things not specifically explained in the scriptures.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:55 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
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Libs would insist that this "life" should be able to vote...without needing ID
Cons would insist it threatens the sanctity of marriage and demand a wall be built
Cajuns would figure out a way to cook it in spices and make it delicious
Rednecks would not even know about it because Honey Boo Boo did not discuss it
Black folk would find a way to be offended by it and insist it is RACISM
You're a complex dude, holmes.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:57 am to The Calvin
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What spurned me to think about this was the recent seemingly "proof" from NASA that the universe did indeed form from a large cosmic event some almost 14 billion years ago. Seems that believers might find that evidence compelling that a larger designer set in motion a universe. What is also intriguing is the concept of multiple universes from the "bubble" effect during rapid cosmic expansion
That confirmation makes it almost certain, in my view, that life of some kind exists elsewhere in the universe(s). Now that life may so distant that we never make contact. Think about the vastness involved.
I don't see how it should affect religious belief one way or the other.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:06 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:17 am to The Calvin
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“I am the Lord God Almighty, and Endless is my name. … “And worlds without number have I created; … and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten”
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And scattered among them, as the Prophet Joseph Smith testified, are worlds whose “inhabitants … are begotten sons and daughters unto God”
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Not much affect since a lot of people already know there is life on other planets - and those people are humans like us.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:01 am to The Calvin
It would not shake my belief, the Church says life elsewhere is possible. However, we would then have to make disciples out of them.
I'd sell every single one of my businesses, and develop an East India-style company, and begin conquest and conversion of all sentient beings on that planet. Then, gear up an import/export business between the two planets.
I'd sell every single one of my businesses, and develop an East India-style company, and begin conquest and conversion of all sentient beings on that planet. Then, gear up an import/export business between the two planets.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:05 am to MottLaneKid
Sincere answer: Through some process of rapid cosmic inflation some 13+ billion years ago. I also believe there are other universes.
I assume by "things" you meant the universe we live in
I assume by "things" you meant the universe we live in
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:18 am to The Calvin
quote:Perhaps sincere, but wrong nonetheless.quote:Through some process of rapid cosmic inflation some 13+ billion years ago.
What is your theory on how things became into being ? Sincere question.
That response is analogous to claiming life on Earth began due to evolution.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:27 am to NC_Tigah
I get it
You're saying that I'm implying that something came from "nothing", and you'd be wrong
You're saying that I'm implying that something came from "nothing", and you'd be wrong
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:32 am to NC_Tigah
Would confirm my belief, that God created the whole thing so that he could have brackets with different species to see who wins.
Alas, we did not make it to the tournament, nor the Not Important Tournament.
Alas, we did not make it to the tournament, nor the Not Important Tournament.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:33 am to The Calvin
quote:No, I'm simply saying Cosmic expansion is not a beginning, regardless. It would represent some point in a process. Just not an initial point.
You're saying that I'm implying that something came from "nothing"
Posted on 3/22/14 at 10:35 am to EST
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Not much affect since a lot of people already know there is life on other planets - and those people are humans like us.
Sorry, that's not correct. No one 'already knows' there is life on other planets. There is zero evidence to back this up.
There may be a lot of people who 'believe' in human life on other worlds, but its all based in faith and not fact.
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