If extra terrestrial life was discovered

Freiheit

What implications would it have for 'people of faith?'....

PlainP

They would still insist that it is all in gods plan. They would also find bits in the bible relating to some something that proves that they have been right all along and we are still going to burn in hell.....

pontia

if god was discovered how would that effect people with no faith

PlainP

pontia wrote: »

if god was discovered how would that effect people with no faith

We could always just go to confession say a few hail marys and be resolved of all our heathen ways, isn't that how it works??

Zaph

Well unless the aliens looked exactly like humans they may have to re-write that bit in the bible about us being created in god's own image.

krudler

Some simple reinterpretation and bam, sure aliens are in the bible all along.

mickoneill30

Freiheit wrote: »

What implications would it have for 'people of faith?'....

Probably the same implications that happened when people realised that the Earth isn't the centre of the universe, Earth wasn't created in 7 days, earth isn't flat, evolution is real etc. etc.

Just move the goalposts a little bit and say "sure that bit wasn't literal".

Canis Lupus

Zaph wrote: »

Well unless the aliens looked exactly like humans they may have to re-write that bit in the bible about us being created in god's own image.

Surely they'd just say that bit refers to earth only and for the other planets god used his imagination.....

Ellis Dee

pontia wrote: »

if god was discovered how would that effect people with no faith

I believe that question has been answered many times and comprehensively by prominent atheists like Professor-Emeritus Richard Dawkins, who does not claim absolutely that no god exists; instead, he had made it clear that he might change his mind if presented with testable evidence of the existence of a deity.

Personally, I won't be holding my breath for such evidence to be presented.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

As for the discovery of extraterrestrial life, it would depend on where it was discovered and what kind it was. The discovery of DNA-based life forms on Mars or even the moons of Jupiter could indicate that life originated in one place, but was later carried elsewhere by asteroids or comets.:)

Someone once said that if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people, so even if a big golden spaceship with 10,000 Hutts on board landed in St. Peter's Square, I suppose there would still be many Christians who just got on with what they do best - denial - and continued to claim that we were all created in God's image.

Sin City

seamus

They'd simply decide that "made in his own image" was a reference to our souls and consciousness rather than our physical forms and use that as affirmation that the text of bible continues to reveal mysteries to us even beyond the ability of the original authors to have understood it, because now the bible includes aliens, thousands of years before we even knew they existed. Huzzah!

I should really apply for that chief bull speech writing job in el Vaticano.

It's really not that difficult to make any piece of text retrospectively mean whatever you want it to mean. It's the very basis of the major religions.

ShooterSF

People follow religions mostly for 3 things; Karmic style justice that evens out the bad things that happen them, a simple reason for their existence and an existence after this one.

All aliens would do is maybe force the current religions to change things up a bit and it may allow new ones to pop up. Hell Scientology might get a huge boost if it positions itself right!

Myrddin

pontia wrote: »

if god was discovered how would that effect people with no faith

If which God was discovered? Last I checked there's quite a few that are worshiped by different groups worldwide.

pontia

yawn

Fritzl Funderland

we would all be screwed anyway. this idea that they will come in peace etc.. look at the human race, we kill each other etc..

endacl

Feck god. Wouldn't effect peter pan or the easter bunny either. How would it effect Miss Universe though? Miss Universe actually exists.

ShooterSF

pontia wrote: »

yawn

Did you mean "Yam"? I can't find a god called Yawn

Myrddin

pontia wrote: »

yawn

Lol, seriously? There are many Gods that are worshipped by different faiths today. And even more again by cultures & civilizations long gone. Some faiths even have multiple gods, others say only theirs is the real one. It's all a bit mad isn't it

endacl

pontia wrote: »

yawn

Are you a disciple of Bleh, the monosyllabic god of short posts? If so, tell us more. Is he as wacky as all the other ones? Can he do tricks?

Turtwig

Nodin

pontia wrote: »

yawn

Your quality contributions continue to flow, I see. You're a keeper you are.

endacl

Nodin wrote: »

You're a keeper you are.

Sure, they don't take up much space...

Myrddin

pontia wrote: »

yawn

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They still can't explain dinosaurs.

Dades

pontia wrote: »

yawn

I assume your done with this thread if that's all you have left to contribute.

What would be really interesting if the aliens who arrived showed us how they seeded earth a few billion years ago. I'd like to see some believers wriggle their way out that with a few "context" changes.

Myrddin

Dades wrote: »

I'd like to see some believers wriggle their way out that with a few "context" changes.

They could burn the aliens at the stake for heresy...that always used to work?

endacl

EnterNow wrote: »

They could burn the aliens at the stake for heresy...that always used to work?

Aliens are made of asbestos. Only they don't call it asbestos. They call it '£$%%^tlteik**ycmxzrxn'.

Freiheit

Would there be 'missionaries' to mars?

Myrddin

endacl wrote: »

Aliens are made of asbestos. Only they don't call it asbestos. They call it '£$%%^tlteik**ycmxzrxn'.

True, if they die at the stake its only because the devil left them & we've saved their souls I suppose

maddragon

Zaph wrote: »

Well unless the aliens looked exactly like humans they may have to re-write that bit in the bible about us being created in god's own image.

Have you ever seen Jackie Healy Rae.

Geekness1234

Zaph wrote: »

Well unless the aliens looked exactly like humans they may have to re-write that bit in the bible about us being created in god's own image.

Nahh, just throw random out of context quotes around and their sorted.