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11 Aug 2014, 11:47 am

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The nature of the God claim is such that it would be easy to account for any possibility. So, nothing would falsify it, including life on other planets. That's the whole problem with it.
Makes more sense than s**t just happening.
Science will never answer why, only how.


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11 Aug 2014, 11:47 am

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I think it very probable, if not likely, that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe - some coexisting with us in this very day and age, some living long before our race ever arose, while others might appear long after we're gone. I have no problem with God doing such a thing as creating life elsewhere, with perhaps the experiment working out a dam sight better than here, while in other places they are possibly considerably worse.


Agreed. I'm a Catholic, I believe in God and evolution AND in other life in the universe. I'm strange in that way,



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11 Aug 2014, 12:17 pm

appletheclown wrote:
AspE wrote:
The nature of the God claim is such that it would be easy to account for any possibility. So, nothing would falsify it, including life on other planets. That's the whole problem with it.
Makes more sense than sh** just happening.
Science will never answer why, only how.

Nonsense. Science often answers why, if the question even applies. Also, having an answer is not a virtue if that answer is wrong.



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11 Aug 2014, 12:42 pm

andrethemoogle wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I think it very probable, if not likely, that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe - some coexisting with us in this very day and age, some living long before our race ever arose, while others might appear long after we're gone. I have no problem with God doing such a thing as creating life elsewhere, with perhaps the experiment working out a dam sight better than here, while in other places they are possibly considerably worse.


Agreed. I'm a Catholic, I believe in God and evolution AND in other life in the universe. I'm strange in that way,


I'm a Lutheran, and I believe the same thing. 8)


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11 Aug 2014, 1:19 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing_bacteria

^ This increases the possibility of extraterrestrial life.



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11 Aug 2014, 2:40 pm

Anybody investigate the works of Richard Dawkin's e.g., The Blind Watchmaker?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins



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12 Aug 2014, 12:36 am

Humanaut wrote:
Kurgan wrote:
Goldilocks planets are rare, and there's a very short time frame where life can originate in the first place.

Where life as we know it can originate.


Precisely. Who knows what kind of biological aberrations can exist in our myopic view.


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