Posted on 04/20/2005 2:04:30 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Do creationists believe there may be life on other planets? Although I haven't researched creationism much (everything says the same thing: flaws in evolution), I haven't read anything about life on other planets. Since there's no mention of life on other planets in the Bible, I would expect Creationists to disbelieve that there is life on other planets on the basis that there is absolutely no evidence of life on any other planet except the earth.
If life was on Mars, it seems a bigger problem for evolutionists and bibleists than creationists.
There is virtually no mention of the planets in the bible. Usually it's the "sun, moon, and stars." I recall that maybe one or two references are made to planets, but they are negative comments about astrology. So it's a clean slate. (If life is found on other planets, they'll probably find some obscure phrase -- which is unappreciated now -- and say that they knew it all the time.)
Yes, there's life on Mars!
And I had sex with it before returning to Earth !!! ;-))
You just randomly pulled that out your ...., didn't you?
Then again, you're probably right. Evolutionists actually study the phenomenal world, so every new discovery provides additional fields of inquiry. Biblical literalists have enough problems as it is from an empirical standpoint, so this would just be yet one more nail. As for creationists, they just make it up as they go along.
Sorry for my earlier snark!
Study it closer. It's true.
But wouldn't such life have evolved over millions of years to fill whatever harsh environments on Mars. That it didn't, is a good indicator that either there is no life on Mars, the theory of evolution is flawed or both.
Actually, I think the real story here might be the ability to use a highly acid tolerant microbe to terraform Venus.
I don't know what a "bibleist" is, or in what manner that "they" differ from creationists. As far as evolution goes, life on Mars would not be a problem at all. Quite the opposite. I don't know where you got that from.
It would be utterly fascinating, especially on the genetic level. Is their DNA related to ours? Do they even use DNA? How do they reproduce? What do they eat? How do they breathe? It would be a truly major discovery, and would have absolutely have no negative effect on the Theory of Evolution whatsoever.
No, I agree. I had a momentary burst of impulsive ire for no apparent reason. :) Sorry!
Hey OK. We are all going for the truth.
And I had sex with it before returning to Earth !!! ;-))
Well, that certainly explains the outbreak of the Marsburg virus. Didn't anybody ever tell you to use protection? ;-)
There are mention of creatures other than Earthly Creatures. Angels, the living creatures around God's throne, etc..
The only Biblical reason, I'm aware of, to conclude that God didn't create life on other planets, is that Stars were created to give light to the earth and Earth was created for man. And the universe is scheduled to be destroyed at a time linked to man's history.
However, this is a pretty weak argument, and even if the universe's distruction fits with the culmination of Man's history, there's no reason to believe God couldn't coordinate the histories of multiple planets, so that the destruction was timely for all.
I agree with you. If the DNA is similar, evo's would theorize that life on Mars somehow came from the earth or vice versa. If the DNA was dissimilar, evo's would claim that life supported spontaneous abiogenesis being common, even if they still can't explain how it was done.
But the continued failure to find life anywhere in the universe, and the failure of that life to evolve to a point where it could contact us, is evidence pointing to how unlikely life is to have evolved.
...there is absolutely no evidence of life on any other planet except the earth.
There is evidence of life on both Mars and Venus; it's just not conclusive evidence, at least not yet.
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