This One Will Raise Some Questions.

[thegooch]

Let propose that there is Intelligent and or Microbial life in the universe. How does this affect the creation story.

 

For once, lets not quote Bible Verses as a defense. That is like a Muslim quoting scipture to a Jew, the jew doesnt care. Neither do some of the people on this board.

[rockmom]

Are you saying you want us to suppose there is life on other planets? :eek:

 

This could be fun!:thumb:

[True blue (and gold)]

I am not sure how we will reconcil not using biblical scripture and talk about the creation story in the same post. :confused:

 

What I can say, is that I do not recall the word "only" appearing anywhere in the creation story...meaning that it does not read that God ONLY created life on our planet. As I have stated in other posts, I do not believe that God "put" all there is to be known in the bible.

[HHSDad]

Microbial or any other non-sentient life - doesn't affect anything

 

Intelligent life - Just means that our creation story isn't the whole story. However, the shock of finding intelligent life would have enormous consequences to societies around the world.

[True blue (and gold)]

Microbial or any other non-sentient life - doesn't affect anything

Intelligent life - Just means that our creation story isn't the whole story. However, the shock of finding intelligent life would have enormous consequences to societies around the world.

 

Actually, I believe that the discover of any type of life anywhere else would really cause a stir.

[Ms Liberty]

No to quote the Bible , but to say , if God created all ,why would he choose just one place to put life. ? Just asking.

[MoreheadEagle]

Any life would cause a stir. Intelligent life would cause an atomic stir.

I believe in God and evolution and I don't discount to possibility of alien life. Contacting that life would be a problem but I don't think that it's out of the realm of possibility that we'll discover proof of extra-terrestrial life in this century whether it's fossilized on Mars or microbes.

[HHSDad]

Read C.S. Lewis' space trilogy. It talks a bit about God creating life on Mars and Venus. The books were written before we knew much about Venus' inhospitable environment.

[True blue (and gold)]

This is the unit that I am currently covering with my Astronomy I class. They are dying for me to give them my opinion, but I hold out until the end of the unit. I want them to come up with their own educated opinion first.

[True blue (and gold)]

Read C.S. Lewis' space trilogy. It talks a bit about God creating life on Mars and Venus. The books were written before we knew much about Venus' inhospitable environment.

 

Regarding Venus, what's interesting is that what we consider to make it inhopsitable is the extreme pressure, temperature and acidic environment...this is the same type of environment that is found in certain places in the ocean when "black smokers" are found...and the area around them is teaming with life.

[HHSDad]

Regarding Venus, what's interesting is that what we consider to make it inhopsitable is the extreme pressure, temperature and acidic environment...this is the same type of environment that is found in certain places in the ocean when "black smokers" are found...and the area around them is teaming with life.

Ben Bova's novels talk quite a bit about finding life on other planets. His various planet novels describe life on Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Titan under conditions as we know them to be.

[Jim Schue]

Actually, I believe that the discover of any type of life anywhere else would really cause a stir.

 

And most of those societies which would be shocked by it are in desperate need of some shocking, IMO.

[Alabama Larry]

No scripture? Ok..I'm out.

[Jim Schue]

No scripture? Ok..I'm out.

 

You have no ammunition otherwise?

[Getslow]

I am not sure how we will reconcil not using biblical scripture and talk about the creation story in the same post. :confused:

 

I agree. How can the question be the effects of discovering extra-terrestrial life of any kind on the creation story without talking about passages from scripture? It doesn't seem to make much sense as a premise, but... here you go.

 

 

I think physics will prohibit us from ever finding intelligent life or them ever finding us. The distances are simply too difficult to overcome. As such, I'm not going to bother with the idea, except to say that the discovery of intelligent life on other planets would be THE MOST remarkable discovery in history.

 

Accepting the creation story as a literal account of history, I don't think that the discovery of life on other planets would necessarily undo the stories of Genesis. In the story, the only people it mentions God creating are Adam and Eve, and yet their child Cain finds a wife somewhere. This is only one example, but it seeems clear that there were humans created even though they weren't explicitly mentioned. Whether that's what you're looking for, I can't say, but like I said above, I don't think that the discovery of other forms of life necessarily undoes the idea that God created the universe and everything in it.