Posted on 12/06/2006 10:43:05 AM PST by Young Werther
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
"These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Washington
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Yeah, well, Genesis somehow missed that whole "Age of the Dinosaurs" thing, which was kind of a big deal for a hundred million years or so.
Christians shouldn't worry about this. The Bible can be (and has been) "interpreted" by man to support any number of mutually exclusive and contradictory ideas. ET life would be no different.
On the faithful side, I think such anti-science views, when expressed as vociferously as they can be, only manage to give the impression that if you study the natural world and draw a certain conclusion, you cannot believe in God. This puts that person's soul at risk! And as we are taught, doing something that leads another soul astray imperils our soul as well.
There are a vocal group who state the belief that science and God are somehow mutually exclusive.
This puts that person's soul at risk!
Yes! By fostering the belief that somehow, there need be a choice between understanding the wonders of creation and believing in the Creator, people are given the impression that the study of science and belief in God are mutually exclusive. Hardly the case.
And as we are taught, doing something that leads another soul astray imperils our soul as well.
Agreed!
It's NOT water, it's mountain dew- where the heck ya think we get our Dew from? http://sacredscoop.com
No, I don't think it would have been mentioned. When Genesis was written, people would have had a difficult time dealing with the concept of stars, orbits, and so on. Besides, life on other planets has nothng to do with the message and purpose of the Bible. The Bible is totally decoupled from such things; and, has nothing to say either for or against life in other places.
Shakes head sadly.
You are beyond clueless.
What does Mohammed say? Maybe the whole religion will melt-down. (Yeah!)
I must grokk on this new found water situation.
Dinosaurs are mentioed in the Bible, actually!
It is not on my Jeep, ergo it ain't flying creature poop.
DING, DING, DING... we have a winner!
LOL!!!!
Ummm...No.
Actually Genesis falls down pretty badly in its description the formation of the universe, stars, our solar system, the Earth, and the evolution of life.
E.g.,
Day 3: "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yeilding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind upon the earth".
Day 4: ”And God set them in the in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.
Day 5: "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens".
This does not follow the fossil record. The ancestors of the flowering plants (angiosperms) first appeared at the close of the Mesozoic. The lower Mesozoic rock is devoid of angiosperm fossils. Such fossils begin to appear in the strata of the Cretaceous period and in greater numbers in the early Cenozoic.
The earliest fossils appear to be from thermal vents or hot springs under the ocean which are approximately 3.2 billion years old.
Yeah, it's right next to the verse Bill Clinton found that says oral sex is not adultery.
I'm not being flippant, either. People (deliberately or subconsciously) read into the Bible anything that they really want to be there, and read out anything they don't. If you can't find a mention of Martian bacteria, either you aren't trying hard enough or you just don't want such a thing to exist.
LOL. Earth isn't even a million years old. But there is no sense in us arguing. Look at www.icr.org.
"Searching for "life on other planets" is another attempt by science to undermime religion and push evolution. How many billions or trilions have been spent to convince people not to believe the Bible?"
So G_D couldn't have blessed other planets in the vast universe with life?
Seems like an aweful waste of real estate to me.
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