life on other planets?

You mean like having their own savior who died for them, or preaching that we had a savior that died for them? Or either?

That would be pretty interesting. But still kinda weird.

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The same way we know other humans experience qualia .

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I don't see as why it is a "must" for evolution.

Evolution doesn't require there be any particular thing. I merely explains why things develop as they have.

Imagine if I have a coin. If I flip it and get a "head" that doesn't mean I must get a "tail" on the next flip. Each flip has exactly the same probability of head or tail.

I can, presumably, flip a fair coin 1000 times and get 1000 heads. It is probabilistically unlikely but for each flip there is exactly the same probability of a head or tail.

Evolution has no requirement that I am aware that other life should exist anywhere.

It is unlikely that in an entire universe that life only arose in one place, but not necessarily an impossibility.

If the alleged human-like extraterrestials (the Pleiadeans, for example, which have been supposedly "witnessed" by thousands) somehow exist, it would be virtually impossible for such beings that look like us to have evolved independently on other worlds. This would be the most spectacular example of parallel or convergent evolution in the history of animated nature.

"virtually impossible" is not the same as impossible.

Birds and bats both have similar body shapes as a function of the vaguaries of flight. In detail they are dramatically different, but in overall gross aspect they have marked similarities.

IF one assumes that UFO "visitations" are anything but human imagination, and IF one assumes that any "aliens" have ever actually been witnessed by humans and those aliens actually had

2 legs
2 arms
2 eyes placed forward looking on the head
on a central, upright frame

it would only say that:

1. Bilateral symmetry exists (which it does across many unrelated animals and plants)
2. Binocular vision is a valuable asset that can be achieved with minimal number of eyes = 2
3. There is a 50/50 chance of upright versus horizontal stature

If we are to find shocking examples of parallel evolution would it not be just as shocking to find that we share bilateral symmetry with some plants? Or would it shock us that stereoscopic vision is something we share with dogs?

(Frankly, while I have little doubt that there is life somewhere else in the universe, I am rather more skeptical of aliens visiting earth. In some ways, precisely because the witnesses invariably describe something that is "understandable" to us as being a fellow cognizant being. It would seem far more likely that our imaginations, hardwired as they are to respond to the "humanoid" --seeing human faces in clouds, anthropomorphizing our pets, etc-- would be the prime generator of such experiences, rather than cases of amazign parallel evolution.)

Originally Posted by Merlin

Many say life on other planets would be a problem for Christians.
I don't think so.
I'd be disappointed to find our Lord didn't make life elsewhere.

OTOH, it's a must for evolutionists.
There must be life elsewhere for them.

Thoughts?

Agreed.
And interestingly, for years as I thanked God for all our many Blessings here, I'd also say:
"you just made one small mistake (lol) I asked to live on a planet with people continuing as peaceful,
joyful, helpful, & developmentally-progressive children..."

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Then I hope you are never our ambassador to them. I can see it now.

"Well, our savior died for OUR sins, you are really just out of luck and damned to hell."

It would only be a problem for me if these aliens were intelligent, and they had no knowledge/belief in any omnimax deity.

I'd be disappointed too.

This is not true. Evolutionary theory just makes life on other planets highly probable.

Regardless of whether or not evolution is true, life on other planets is highly probable. There are quadrillions of stars out there and most of them have their own systems of planets orbiting around them anyway (though most extrasolar planets astronomers have found have been gas giants.)

I think it's almost foolishness to assume we are the only beings in the Universe. Especially since solar systems are not entirely uncommon in the universe.

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Originally Posted by thaumaturgy

"virtually impossible" is not the same as impossible.

IF one assumes that UFO "visitations" are anything but human imagination, and
IF one assumes that any "aliens" have ever actually been witnessed by humans and
those aliens actually had
2 legs
2 arms
2 eyes placed forward looking on the head
on a central, upright frame, it would only say that: ...

(Frankly, while I have little doubt that there is life somewhere else in the universe,
I am rather more skeptical of aliens visiting earth. In some ways, precisely because
the witnesses invariably describe something that is "understandable" to us as being a fellow cognizant being.

Rather than cases of amazign parallel evolution.)

only "parallel" evolution is possible; why do people assume that?

only '2 legs, 2 arms, 2 eyes placed forward looking on the head,
on a central, upright frame' to be a "fellow cognizant being": why do people assume that?

Why do people assume?, to place their own belief-limitations, on GOD as Creator of all intelligent life, in all its myriad varieties...

Might it be better to think that He, having already Blessed every lifeform with 'intelligence' (including such not
acknowledged by some humans); that God quite competently created, & continues creating any intelligent life forms He chooses...

thoughts?
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They don´t. The post you quoted (and the post to which that quote was written in response) says in fact quite the opposite.

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