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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...

5 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)
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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?!


12 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!)
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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.


14 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)
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To: 2banana
“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. Neither follows from the premise.”

If God made the formation of biological molecules and the formation of life something that was probable on Earth due to simple chemistry, then it is quite likely that life formed elsewhere in the UNCOMPREHENDINGLY VAST universe. This in no way means that God didn't create life in ALL places, or that it was not part of God's plan.

Also one might conclude that it was evidence for abiogenesis on Mars, which would be evidence that abiogenesis on Earth is probable. Evidence isn't “proof”. And it wouldn't be evidence against God (let alone ‘disproof of God); just the notion that God created life ONLY on Earth.

After all, didn't the Mormon God already make life on other planets (AFAIK)?

46 posted on 06/30/2008 12:02:30 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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