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Will religion end on Mars?
economic times (India) ^
| 6/28/2008
| Mukul Sharma,
Posted on 06/30/2008 11:40:53 AM PDT by Soliton
For example, some people are already writing off most major religions which are based essentially on an Earth-centric model, as never being able to recover from such a crippling body blow. (The Bible makes no mention of other planets or life on other planets.)
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TOPICS: Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: crpcrpcrp; evolution; sameoldcrp
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:40:54 AM PDT
by
Soliton
To: Soliton
The ancient Romans worshipped Mars, so right there his argument fall flat!
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:43:15 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
To: Soliton
Give me a break! Life on any other planet wouldn’t do a thing to the validity of Scripture. Typical atheistic with an agenda.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:44:50 AM PDT
by
Blogger
To: Soliton
Go to Mars, dude and see if you can escape God there...
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:45:04 AM PDT
by
J40000
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Their reasoning is that even if the type of life found is only microscopic in nature which existed many millions of years ago in the past, it would prove once and for all that life on our planet is not a one-off event requiring the services of a creator. In other words, discover life on Mars; prove evolution; disprove God. The money paragraph...
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:45:41 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Soliton
No, even if life is discovered on Mars. Few religions are at all concerned with the origins of life. Maybe none are. It simply doesn’t matter.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:46:16 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: Soliton
In other words, discover life on Mars; prove evolution; disprove God. False.
It may disprove the time span of six days, but doesn't disprove God had a hand in creation.
After-all God is infinite, Earth and Humans are not. What was God doing all that time before creating Earth?
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:46:40 AM PDT
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: Soliton
The Bible makes no mention of steam engines, but we have managed to make them fit into God’s plan.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:46:43 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
To: Soliton
Religion? I thought everyone gave that stuff up when we found that the Earth revolved around the sun. < /mother of all sarcasm>
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:48:05 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
To: Soliton
How come the same people who decry drilling in ANWR, or any other human enterprise that may affect wildlife, have nothing to say about the potential "impact of man" on so-called life on other planets?
Drilling in ANWR, logging forests, mining for resources, etc. have the purpose of investing money to create products and services for people to use. Why are billions of taxpayer dollars spent "looking for life on other planets"? Will they be made into fuel or energy? Can they be harvested for food? Can we build anything from them? No, the only reason is that scientists, and the humanist masses who idolize them, think that will somehow "kill God" and, by extension, any moralists who base their beliefs in God. That's why liberals love these kind of people.
If NASA or some private consortium were to say, "We're going to look for Martian microbes because we think they can easily be converted into fuel," there would be such a hue and cry that all of outer space would be placed off-limits.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:48:18 AM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: J40000; Blogger; 2ndDivisionVet
Go to Mars, dude and see if you can escape God there...I posted it, I didn't write it.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:48:22 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
To: 2banana
What’re they smokin’? Have they ever thought that the patterns of DNA, etc. pretty much PROVES intelligent design, if not a deity?!
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:48:26 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
To: Soliton
Will religion end on Mars?I don't know. What religions are there on Mars now?
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:48:38 AM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: 2banana
The atheists will be in a constant search for the “blow that kills God”.
Every atheist-turned-believer that I’ve ever read about states that their primary reasoning for being atheist was that it justified their selfish, arbitrary, and immoral lifestyle choices.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:49:20 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Soliton
The Bible makes no mention of people blowing their nose, the Internet, Dr. Phil, or this guy that goes by the name Soliton either; doesn't mean they don't exist.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:49:34 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(What in the name of Gods arse is potpourri? Looks like breakfast. Smells like your auntie.)
To: RightWhale
Few religions are at all concerned with the origins of life. Then why are they so jumpin ugly over evolution?
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:50:29 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
To: CougarGA7
I was out of town over the weekend, did we discover life on other planets?
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:50:29 AM PDT
by
Patrick1
To: Soliton
I dunno. Did it end on the moon?
To: KarlInOhio
Yeah, somehow Christianity and religion survived the Heliocentric model...
Recommended: Language of God
He’s a diehard Evo believer from the evidence in DNA, and a diehard Christian for the same reason.
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:51:09 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Soliton
What if they find the conditions for life, but no evidence of life?
Would that disprove atheism?
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posted on
06/30/2008 11:52:20 AM PDT
by
Deut28
(Cursed be he who perverts the justice)
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