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So the Mars Curiosity Rover successfully landed on the Red Planet. Some of its objectives are to find evidence for past or present life on Mars and/or evidence of past, life-friendly conditions on the planet.
The point of this thread is not to say your religion is false IF life is found; rather, I am interested if life on other planets would be a problem for your religion. Would God (Judeo-Christian god) also be credited with making this life even if it not mentioned in the bible?
Feel free to discuss any questions which may arise from this topic.
Bacteria have no nervous system. They can't be happy and contend, nor can they be sad and frustrated.
Whether we are happy and content has nothing to do with evolution. Evolution makes us more capable of surviving; considering we have bacteria that survive in rocks and eat radiation, I'd say they are pretty successfull in that regard.
Your argument is invalid, and you lack even a basic understanding of biology.
Why would you expect animals to evolve separately on another world? They may have something like animals, or they may not. Animals evolved on earth because (in part) of the environmental conditions that existed on earth. It may be quite different on another planet.
No. Being happy, and being capable of survival, are two entirely different things.Do you see conflict in that sentence?
Doesn't it rather depend what they are? What if they are more plant like than animal like? Or more bacteria-like?So, what should we call them, if not animals? Do you want to call them human?
Yes.Wait, will it stop trying to eat at all?
Rats in Skinner boxes with metal electrodes implanted into their nucleus accumbens will repeatedly press a lever which activates this region, and will do so in preference over food and water, eventually dying from exhaustion. In rodent physiology, scientists reason that the medial forebrain bundle is the pleasure center of rats. If a rat is given the choice between stimulating the forebrain or eating, it will choose stimulation to the point of exhaustion.[6]
So, what should we call them, if not animals? Do you want to call them human?
I see the aliens that NASA has tried to airbrush out of this photo of a sound stage in Burbank, because interplanetary flight is impossible [/conspiracy]Landing Site & Surrounding Area
First Color Image From Curiosity
They need to find where the human pleasure centers are located and hook me up.Rats in Skinner boxes with metal electrodes implanted into their nucleus accumbens will repeatedly press a lever which activates this region, and will do so in preference over food and water, eventually dying from exhaustion. In rodent physiology, scientists reason that the medial forebrain bundle is the pleasure center of rats. If a rat is given the choice between stimulating the forebrain or eating, it will choose stimulation to the point of exhaustion.[6]
They need to find where the human pleasure centers are located and hook me up.
Introduction to The Hedonistic Imperative
Sure, why not?Would life on Mars be a problem for your religious beliefs?
Scientists like to tell us that life on Earth could have came from Mars, so it also likely that life on Mars could have came from Earth.Hello everyone,
So the Mars Curiosity Rover successfully landed on the Red Planet. Some of its objectives are to find evidence for past or present life on Mars and/or evidence of past, life-friendly conditions on the planet.
The point of this thread is not to say your religion is false IF life is found; rather, I am interested if life on other planets would be a problem for your religion. Would God (Judeo-Christian god) also be credited with making this life even if it not mentioned in the bible?
Feel free to discuss any questions which may arise from this topic.
Niven predicted it as the comming drug plague some years ago;They need to find where the human pleasure centers are located and hook me up.
Introduction to The Hedonistic Imperative
No its not actually, because of the gravity difference. Mars ejecta can reach escape velocity much more easily than Earth ejecta can. Not saying it couldn't happen ever, just saying Earth -> Mars is a lot less likely than Mars -> Earth.Sure, why not?
Scientists like to tell us that life on Earth could have came from Mars, so it also likely that life on Mars could have came from Earth.
Doesn't it rather depend what they are? What if they are more plant like than animal like? Or more bacteria-like?
No. Being happy, and being capable of survival, are two entirely different things.
Stimulating the reward center of a rat's brain will result in the rat starving to death, but there's no doubt it will die happily.
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