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Do Aliens Exist?
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<blockquote data-quote="Strathos" data-source="post: 75461791" data-attributes="member: 320753"><p>Let me just sum up my positions here:</p><p></p><p>- If extraterrestrial life exists, it's probably something simple, like unicellular organisms, or what we would recognize as plants or animals.</p><p></p><p>- If complex, 'intelligent' extraterrestrial life exists, it's probably nothing like humans, and has none of the traits we would associate with 'people', like individuality or emotions. I'm imagining something like a planet-wide hive mind made of coral or fungus, which may be able to understand advanced scientific principles and build complex technology, but it would be completely unable to comprehend things that we take for granted, like language or morality. If it was different enough psychologically from human beings, it would exist outside of the sin paradigm in the first place, thus making the issue of salvation irrelevant.</p><p></p><p>- I strongly doubt that there exist the kind of intelligent aliens you see in sci-fi stories, which are basically humans with a civilization like ours, which just look different. However I'm not completely ruling it out, since we can't know for sure what God has done even on earth, let alone in the rest of the universe. Maybe there will be aliens in Heaven who were saved somehow, and when God explains how it happened it will all make perfect sense. I mean, anything is theoretically possible. But I doubt it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Strathos, post: 75461791, member: 320753"] Let me just sum up my positions here: - If extraterrestrial life exists, it's probably something simple, like unicellular organisms, or what we would recognize as plants or animals. - If complex, 'intelligent' extraterrestrial life exists, it's probably nothing like humans, and has none of the traits we would associate with 'people', like individuality or emotions. I'm imagining something like a planet-wide hive mind made of coral or fungus, which may be able to understand advanced scientific principles and build complex technology, but it would be completely unable to comprehend things that we take for granted, like language or morality. If it was different enough psychologically from human beings, it would exist outside of the sin paradigm in the first place, thus making the issue of salvation irrelevant. - I strongly doubt that there exist the kind of intelligent aliens you see in sci-fi stories, which are basically humans with a civilization like ours, which just look different. However I'm not completely ruling it out, since we can't know for sure what God has done even on earth, let alone in the rest of the universe. Maybe there will be aliens in Heaven who were saved somehow, and when God explains how it happened it will all make perfect sense. I mean, anything is theoretically possible. But I doubt it. [/QUOTE]
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