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To: RightWhale

How do you see life on other planets fits in with Creation? For lib Christians I know it won't be a problem.


29 posted on 12/06/2006 11:14:50 AM PST by TraditionalistMommy
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To: TraditionalistMommy

The Bible is entirely silent on the issue of life on other planets. Please tell me how I'm wrong.


31 posted on 12/06/2006 11:16:40 AM PST by NinoFan
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To: TraditionalistMommy

Well, there are ways to read the text. Earth might mean all planets in the Hubble volume. Many mansions might refer to other planets with Christian societies. It's a lot of interpretation, but we can't possibly know without going out there and checking it out and then referring to the text again. If life is found, and I assume it will be, it will not bother anyone very much. In fact, it will be a hot topic around dinner tables for a couple days. That's about it. Old sermons will have to be slightly rewritten, which ought to be done more often anyway.


35 posted on 12/06/2006 11:21:34 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: TraditionalistMommy

Not to mention you would have a hard time explaining to me why if there is water on Mars and they find microbe life on it why hasn't anything evolved from that? While life on earth has sprouted into millions of different creatures.


69 posted on 12/06/2006 12:10:22 PM PST by Almondjoy
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To: TraditionalistMommy
Genesis 1:26...And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Us: The angels? The animals? Or perhaps other intelligent life in the universe?

I might opt for the latter, as rare as I think it is.

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place In The Cosmos Is Designed For Discovery.

198 posted on 12/11/2006 7:31:53 PM PST by onedoug
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