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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Look at the water world (apparently earth like) recently discovered only a few tens of light years away around a small sun.

Do you happen to have any links on that? I'd find it interesting.

Jesus brought parables. The big change was that he brought non-literalism.

Be careful to not get too caught up in this. The Epistles were quite literal in their instructions and doctrines. Jesus also wasn't above laying down the law (that whole 'go and sin no more' thing comes to mind).

I am mostly a literalist. However, I don't see that as being a problem. As I've said previously, I don't see that the Bible addresses the issue of extra terrestrial life. That's because such knowledge is not mankind's most pressing need.

33 posted on 08/06/2007 8:43:29 PM PDT by JamesP81 (Keep your friends close; keep your enemies at optimal engagement range)

No direct link, but do a bit of research on the star, Gliese 581. I forget if it was planet b or c, but it was in the habitable zone and shows water. It is a bit heavier than we are, but its darn close, and with a bit of $ and existing tech we could see organics if they are there.

The programs designed to do that are not due till something like 2015. We found the planet way before we expected to. We started looking, and blam, something like 50 light years away, around a dwarf star, ding ding ding. Candidate 2 for life as we know it.

Given the number of dwarf stars out there, it makes life as we know it (possible) planets even in our galaxy more common than the grains of sand on earth.

As to the (that whole ‘go and sin no more’ thing comes to mind).

We are human. We sin. It unfortunately is our nature. I think this was figurative as well. You left out “Neither do I condemn thee” If it is to be taken as literal, then man today could be sinless. We cant. Even the most pious, Christian, chartable, good person still is a wretched sinner.

37 posted on 08/06/2007 9:24:27 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)

39 posted on 08/06/2007 9:40:35 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)

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