[BrandtMichaels]

muawiyah - You can talk about this as science all you want but life from outerspace has not been observed. Those little critters still need certain conditions to support life - conditions that have not been proven for outerspace - the hot and cold temperature extremes alone must both be applied due to the extreme cold of outerspace w/ no atmosphere plus the extreme heating they would all be subject too upon re-entry into any planet suitable to support life.

Also I’ve heard of no traditional religious response calling them a ‘separate creation’ - my Bible tells me that God created all creatures - great and small, visible and not visible to the naked eye.

[muawiyah]

The little critters 7 miles deep live without atmosphere or light. They can live without heat. They derive their energy from the energy stored as excess electrons in valence shells in the rocks around them.

That's all they need.

They survive an environment on Earth that's no more rigorous than in the rocks of Venus or Mars, or at the rocky core of Jupiter.

It's just a matter of time ~ years, maybe only months, and we'll have evidence that these same critters live elsewhere in this solar system. It'll take a bit longer to demonstrate that for our end of the Galaxy.

[muawiyah]

That's why I referred to the Mother Church of us all up to the 1500s ~ the Catholic Church. Over the centuries Church Fathers have discussed the nature of critters not of our realm, or not of Earth. They developed the basis for a variety of doctrines ~ check out angels, demons, etc.

It's all there. And as a "separate creation".

If I substitute "Martian" for "angel" the arguments are the same.

[GodGunsGuts]

==Also I’ve heard of no traditional religious response calling them a ‘separate creation’ - my Bible tells me that God created all creatures - great and small, visible and not visible to the naked eye.

Amen!

[yankeedame]

You can talk about this as science all you want but life from outerspace has not been observed....yet.

Those little critters still need certain conditions to support life - conditions that have not been proven for outer space...Our knowledge of those conditions, of course, being about as close to zero as one can get and still be a number.

[Buck W.]

“Also I’ve heard of no traditional religious response calling them a ‘separate creation’ - my Bible tells me that God created all creatures - great and small, visible and not visible to the naked eye.”

I respect your faith, as I, too, am a Chrtistian. However, using your faith to either make or dispute scientific findings is pointless. Faith and science coexist and are separate.