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To: RightWhale
"There might be other planets about the size of earth, but none of them, not one, would be like earth in any other way. Don't expect
meadow-fresh air, nor mild seasons, nor lake trout."

If you belive in evolution, that sounds logical, but if you belive in God and that he created all things, why would he make only one earth with people on it, and why would one such earth have a greatly differnt ecology than another?

Can you imagine the fallout in society and the scientific community if we get to another such world and find the same plants and animals and humans as are here? And what if they have a religion that matches one here as well? I think the mother of all cover-ups would take place.
34 posted on 07/03/2002 9:51:16 AM PDT by Grig
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To: Grig
If you belive in evolution, that sounds logical, but if you belive in God and that he created all things,

It is logically possible to believe both (or is it all three). God could very well have created everything by using evolution as His tool. He, after all, created the universe with it's physical laws, laws which probably allow for the possibility of life and evolution.

146 posted on 07/03/2002 6:09:05 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Grig
Can you imagine the fallout in society and the scientific community if we get to another such world and find the same plants and animals and humans as are here? And what if they have a religion that matches one here as well? I think the mother of all cover-ups would take place.

No, I think our religious types and their religious types would immediately start fighting over who had the "one true religion".

Science will simply deal with the evidence as it is discovered. The odds are much better, going on past experiences, that many different and new things will be discovered on other planets, all of them following natural laws, but none of them exactly repeating what we have here on earth.

But in spite of these facts, we will still have fundamentalist types trying to explain these facts away. Not having to answer to the scientific method, the fundamentalists will always be free to use any line of sophistry to avoid reality.

176 posted on 07/04/2002 5:09:46 PM PDT by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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