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I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life. Do aliens get to go to heaven?
I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life. Do aliens get to go to heaven?
Your second sentance is irrelevant, it's not like every living thing on earth is believed to go to heaven.
I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life. Do aliens get to go to heaven?
Religion doesn't need a literal interpretation to succeed, they'd just sweep it under the rug like everything else. Indeed, I think the majority of religious people do not believe much literally, and at least many of them are simply believers in belief.
I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life. Do aliens get to go to heaven?
My biggest fear is dying before mankind finds the definite scientific answer to death and our origin/s. We seem to be so near (~ one century away).
/me leans back on his armchair
I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life. Do aliens get to go to heaven?
Your second sentance is irrelevant, it's not like every living thing on earth is believed to go to heaven.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your second sentance is irrelevant, it's not like every living thing on earth is believed to go to heaven.
I do not agree that it is completely irrelevant when including the possibilities of life at a higher intellectual level. It would still put religion in a difficult position; if God created humans, he must have created aliens. At what intellectual level would you set the barrier? Must it demonstrate empathy? Love? And who would decide? What gives a human the right, as it clearly is the guy in the sky that is the gatek…
And I think this news is still no proof for skeptical people (like myself). They found molecules that are very rare on earth and are now suggesting they originated in space:
"...but were unsure whether these materials actually originate in space. The presence of these three molecules, however, suggest that they do, potentially raising new questions..."
So just new questions and suggestions. No proof of alien life for me. But interesting!
The original NASA article: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorit...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your second sentance is irrelevant, it's not like every living thing on earth is believed to go to heaven.
I do not agree that it is completely irrelevant when including the possibilities of life at a higher intellectual level. It would still put religion in a difficult position; if God created humans, he must have created aliens. At what intellectual level would you set the barrier? Must it demonstrate empathy? Love? And who would decide? What gives a human the right, as it clearly is the guy in the sky that is the gatek…
Also; the existence or lack of existence of any alien life form would have no theological bearing on the western church. (That’s not to say that it would in the east. I just am ignorant of the details -- though if I was a betting man I would say that it is the same in that case also.) Wouldn’t change a thing; and not because it would get “swept under the carpet” but because it really changes nothing core to the dogma deemed necessary for the western church (i.e. the Ecumenical creeds).
And, just as an even further aside, some prominent Christian theologians believe that aliens might exist.