Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION] Billions Planets Likely in Milky Way

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well, the only thing I know about how Christians would or would not accept the prospect of life on other planets is what was represented in the movie Contact. This movie is not hardly a reliable source of information on the subject.

 

I don't know that it becomes much of an issue really until the point and time we find "man" on another planet. At that point there could be religious implications. Just that there is life on another planet does not contradict anything I am aware of in the Bible.

 

On 10/5/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Phillip Kelchen wrote:

> Well, I can't speak for the Christians, but unless we can either travel
> to those planets and see for ourselves or create life in a lab of our
> own (and thus knowing what it takes to make life,) we can't say that
> there is or isn't. It's the whole proof of the universal negatives and
> the fact that we haven't seen any life out there that prevents anybody
> from saying either way.

That's true, but when you see evidence of billions of planets in one
galaxy and you know there are about 100 billion galaxies, the probability
of no life anywhere starts to look pretty small.


> I think that the Christians that think that there would be no life on
> other planets think that as it didn't say that God put it there
> explicitly in the Bible as it said that he put life on Earth.

A lot of things are true and not printed in the Bible.  I think those
Christians need to realize that!

Mike

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