Isn't it just!
"...and look to discover advanced alien civilizations as secular savior to provide us with salvation for all of Earth's daunting problems we ourselves used in getting here..."
Sounds very similar to something a few of us were discussing a week or so ago.
From one of my posts...."Well,I wouldn't insist that they (ETs) don't exist but I don't find anything scriptural that compels me to think they do and the universe being really really big doesn't either.When I see so much 'new age' thinking that swirls around other-worldy life out there coming to save us and see so many who reject God insisting there's other life out there I can't help being suspicious.The Bible tells us there most certainly is other intelligent life in the universe.Some of it being malevolent and maybe trying to hitch a ride on man's desire to believe in some sort of physical saviour."
And once again, allow me to add that I find nothing int he Bible which precludes higher intelligence beings, but without a spirit. We just don’t know. Then again, perhaps God put a spirit in evolved beings but did not allow for free will, sort of like ant colonies or bee hiveism.
Sounds very similar to something a few of us were discussing a week or so ago.
***Yes, and I recently added a physics development to that thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3014868/posts
Note that Coppedge’s calculations of 1 in 10^123 for the formation of a protein of 445 amino acids in length, and 1 in 10^29345 for the formation of an aggregate of proteins minimal for the existence of life are computed on the basis of the left-handed amino acid problem alone.
So the SETI project was off by 29,343 orders of magnitude. It only needs to be off by 50 orders of magnitude to be impossible, by the mathematical definition.
Some folks can't differentiate between a fart and their own sorry intellectual incapacity to be aware of anything else. It's like the famous Gary Larsen cartoon where he portrays what a dog hears when his owner is speaking to him.
Owner:Rover,get off the neighbor's lawn!
What Rover hears:BARK!BARK!BARK!BARK!BARK!BARK!
Some people, like our honorary MENSA member here,Sandrat, hears all sounds, reads all books as if they were farts.
Friend:Hey, Sandrat, how's it going?
What Sandrat hears:Flatulent Sonic Boom
What Sandrat expeiences whenever he reads anything.
Fleeting, ephemeral cloud of an*l vapor.
Didn't FR once require an IQ test before granting membership?.
Thank you so much for letting us know about this new thread on a similar topic!