Would life on Mars be a problem for your religious beliefs?

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No, but I have noticed a lack of clothing when the weather turns warmer.

I can guarantee you, clothing have a practical purpose and warmth is one of the top contributors (because without that warmth people wouldn't survive the winters here).

Edit: Sometimes mitigation of warmth is as important as mitigation of cold.

I agree. But as I said, it is only a side effect.
 
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What? When did I say there are no animals?

You're not going to get complex multicellular life on Mars, but you could have single celled organisms. Your earlier posts seem to think this disproves evolution.

No. I said if planets outside has no animals, then it disprove evolution.
 
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A side effect of what?
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Of the cold weather.
There is evidence of neolithic peoples wearing fabric, long before Adam and Eve were supposedly made to wear fig leaves,if we are to believe that A&E were created 6000 years ago.
History of Clothing - From an Inventors Perspective

A side effect on the real reason of wearing clothes.
 
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Why must all life be carbon based like it is here on earth? Why not silica based? Beings of pure energy? Something we can not comprehend?
It's shallow to think that if there is life elsewhere, it has to be like us..it's pretty arrogant too.

It does need to be like our animals. But it would fits our definition of animal. Silicon based animals included.
 
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It does need to be like our animals. But it would fits our definition of animal. Silicon based animals included.

It does not need to be like our animals..the rest of your post contradicts the first part..If life on other planets have to be "like ours",how can silica based life be included?
 
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It does not need to be like our animals..the rest of your post contradicts the first part..If life on other planets have to be "like ours",how can silica based life be included?

Functions. System based on different material could have the same functions. The definition of animals on the earth does not include the limitation of a carbon based system.
 
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Because evolution will make that happen.

lets assume a planet is found and has life on it. it has bacteria, plant-like and protist-like organisms. it doesn't have animal-like organisms. that doesn't disprove evolution assuming transition is evident. evolution isn't a set path. its a divergent path. many possibilities. the occurrence of animal-like organisms isn't a definite.
 
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What functions are you talking about? Life forms based on media other than carbon would not have the same bodily functions..What would silica eat?Without eating, why would it eliminate bodily waste? It would not need to eat..what would it eat in the first place?
 
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Functions. System based on different material could have the same functions. The definition of animals on the earth does not include the limitation of a carbon based system.
Actually, it does:

"Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa."
 
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