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Originally Posted by Rictor
Why would alien life conflict with the Bible? It says God created the universe, so if there's alien life, God created that too. Religion would assimilate this just as it has assimilated every other major cultural and scientific change over the last 2,000 years.
Besides, religious people pick and choose what parts of the Bible they believe anyway. The Bible condones slavery but you won't find any church that supports it.
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Christains say the Bible says that EARTH is the only place with life. Life on other worlds makes earth less unique. Also if there in fact intelligent life elsewhere and it doesn't look anything like us and if there is a God and he created man in his own image, well what about the aliens? Life on other worlds contradicts the Bible and many would lose faith. And that's not such a bad thing. Yeah it sucks when your kid finds out Santa isn't real, but isn't that better than him being 16 and still believing in Santa?
Our world becomes a better place when it does the tright things because they're right not not because they think they'll get some heavenly reward later. And when peolpe stop doing bad things because its wrong and not because they are afraid of going to hell.
I'm an atheist and I know it's wrong to kill and steal and I don't need a book to tell me so. And frankly if you do, you have issues.