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If intelligent extraterrestrials exist, what about God?
MSNBC ^ | October 2, 2011 | Clara Moskowitz

Posted on 10/03/2011 10:13:52 AM PDT by EveningStar

The discovery of intelligent aliens would be mind-blowing in many respects, but it could present a special dilemma for the world's religions, theologians pondering interstellar travel concepts said Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; bluebeam; christianity; christians; extraterrestrials; god; projectbluebeam; religion; science; ufos
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1 posted on 10/03/2011 10:13:55 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Why would this be a problem? Is God incapable of creating intelligent beings on other planets?


2 posted on 10/03/2011 10:16:57 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: EveningStar
I don't understand the question.

What would it change?

3 posted on 10/03/2011 10:17:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: EveningStar

What would be REALLY mind-blowing is if they believed in God too. Liberal heads would explode!!!


4 posted on 10/03/2011 10:17:07 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: EveningStar

ETs created the universe! not likely. demons at worst maybe angels at best!


5 posted on 10/03/2011 10:19:14 AM PDT by timetostand (Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
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To: marstegreg

These people are constantly attacking religion.


6 posted on 10/03/2011 10:19:47 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: EveningStar

Wow, another demonstration of MSM logic (or the lack thereof).

Please MSM slugs, stick to what you know.

Which appears to be “nothing”.


7 posted on 10/03/2011 10:20:11 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: EveningStar

Real ET contact might mess with some extreme fundamentalists (of most religions).

Level-headed Christians and Jews will realize the Bible/Torah focus on humans and God’s relationship with us. The fact it is silent on other intelligent species doesn’t change that relationship at all.


8 posted on 10/03/2011 10:20:28 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
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To: EveningStar
Liberals love to reason from a false hypothesis.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 10/03/2011 10:20:43 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: EveningStar

“The discovery of intelligent aliens would be mind-blowing in many respects, but it could present a special dilemma for the world’s religions,”

Why? G-d is the G-d of the entire universe. An infinite force.
How can anyone diminish G-d by thinking that all there is is THIS? That is so chauvinistic and arrogant it’s mindboggling.


10 posted on 10/03/2011 10:21:32 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Farrago fatigans!)
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To: EveningStar

John 14:2

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Plenty of room for them.


11 posted on 10/03/2011 10:22:47 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: EveningStar

stupid


12 posted on 10/03/2011 10:22:47 AM PDT by DirtyDawg (eat fruit)
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To: EveningStar
If intelligent extraterrestrials exist, what about God?

Well...God IS an intelligent extraterrestrial.

13 posted on 10/03/2011 10:22:53 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: EveningStar

What If I find most ironic about questions like this is that it’s the atheists who end up defending a belief in “invisible men in the sky”.


14 posted on 10/03/2011 10:22:53 AM PDT by Tribune7 (If you demand perfection you will wind up with leftist Democrats)
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To: EveningStar

There are two ways to identify an idiot:
1. If they try to use the Bible to disprove science
2. If they try to use science to disprove God

This article belongs to the second class of idiots.

MSNBC picks out a few lunatics and forms an article to support its anti-Christian agenda. I can shoot each and every one of their stupid points down.


15 posted on 10/03/2011 10:23:16 AM PDT by kidd (Perry is a "conserbatib" - voting "conservative" while holding your nose)
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To: EveningStar

Well, the Bible does say he sent His ONLY son.


16 posted on 10/03/2011 10:24:27 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: EveningStar
If intelligent extraterrestrials exist, what about God?

What about Him? There is nothing that says He could not have placed intelligent life on other planets just as He has placed intelligent life on other planes.

Is this suppose to be one of those "gotcha" questions by people who don't know enough about their subject to formulate intelligent questions in the first place?

17 posted on 10/03/2011 10:24:52 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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To: EveningStar

If two-headed monkeys flew out of the stone butt of Michelangelo’s “David”, that would turn a few heads as well.

I’m not counting on that happening either.

“Imagine no religion” if you dare... but me and mine are aligned with Solomon’s wisdom: “The fool saith in his heart there is no God”.


18 posted on 10/03/2011 10:24:58 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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RE :"The discovery of intelligent aliens would be mind-blowing in many respects, but it could present a special dilemma for the world's religions, theologians pondering interstellar travel concepts said Saturday"

???? The only place intelligent aliens will be discovered will be in sci-fi entertainment like ET so this wont be an issue.

next...

19 posted on 10/03/2011 10:25:13 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Over-taxed means 'paying too much in taxes', not zero taxes)
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To: EveningStar

Gee, somebody must have read Childhood’s End.

It’s also baloney. This “God was an extraterrestrial” baloney was big in the hippie days. What is really funny is the evolutionists that, with a straight face and forced to examine the unanswered questions in the complexity of DNA say things like “well, Aliens created us”. To which a thinking person would say, “So, who created the aliens”.

Anyway, an absurdly ancient book like the Bible has survived the scrutiny of modern science like literally no other has. I’ll take my chances on it doing just fine right until the Great Deception where even the elect would be decieved if the Lord chose to wait. Which he won’t.


20 posted on 10/03/2011 10:25:24 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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