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Another reason this can't be true [that aliens exist] is that Adam had been given authority over all creation. How could God give Adam authority over other beings from another planet? He wouldn't, therefore there are no other beings. Another point would be; if there were other races of people on other planets, God would want them to know that Jesus came to earth to die for everyone, and that the gospel would need to be preached to them. Yet the Bible says preach to all the earth, not to all the planets. Again, there is noone out there, except angels and demons.

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old comment by QSX

The more I hear about the whole 'creation/evolution' arguement, the more I lean towards evolution, because at least it makes sense.

God creates the universe as big as imagination itself, fills it up with hundreds of trillions of stars, and then only makes life on one planet orbiting one star? Sounds like a weak effort to me...a half-assed attempt by a lazy being with no ambition. Give me the powers of omniscience, omnipresence, and power over all, and I'd use it, dammit! Treat things like a new game of Spore every week, and if they were boring me or being naughty in my sight, they would most verily snuff it, and I'd move on.

Here's a more plausible scenario, backed by the only true power of the universe: mathematical probability. Consider all the stars within the universe. Now consider if one in every million of those stars had a system of planets around it. Now consider, out of all those planetary systems, if one in a million of them supported life (as we know it). Now consider, out of all those life-supporting planets, if one in a million has intelligent life (intelligence as we see it). Even given those staggering numbers, there is the probability of there being millions (yes, seven figure digits) of intelligent species throughout the universe.

Yet we're so concerned with what's happening on our little mudball? See the really big picture...if your imagination can handle it.

old comment by Journeyer

Strange, after the first six words the rest turned into wharrgarrblllarggharrgl...

Well let's see we do know a few things about possessing power, and there is a very famous saying which states that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Now, my point is; we take the idea that there is a god and that he/she/it is an omnipotent entity. You do know what omnipotent means right?

Anyway, we have one omnipotent entity - a being with absolute power. Do we then have any reason to trust said being, to love it, cherish it or worship it? If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then surely it follows that any ominpotent entity - being the most powerful being in existence - would also be the most corrupt being in existence. Therefore we have no reason to assume this entity cares about us or even notices us. It will be far too busy smiting emergent civilizations, laying waste to entire star systems, extinguishing stars and starting black holes.

Why would I make such assumptions? Easy. Intelligence is intelligence, and while we only have the human mind to model our understanding of intelligence by, it is a fair assumption that thought processes function in much the same way across reality. We observe and deduse from our observations. Obviously our methods of logic might differ, but the way we collect information from the natural world would be the same. Now, as we know this we also understand how more powerful beings relate to those inferior to themselves: a) slavery or b) genocide.

Therefore I posit the following: if god exists he has forgotten about us, which is a good thing because if he ever notices us again, we might disappear from the universe altogether.

Anyway, all these points are moot for one simple reason: There is no god(s), and any idea of a god/gods are merely spawned from the minds of uninformed humans trying to make sense of the universe around them.

Oh, and there are surely going to be life elsewhere in the universe - it all boils down to (as QSX stated) mathematical probability, and the odds are very much in favour of this statement.

Wake up Doma, read a book - read several books, and study the world and the universe around you. Eventually you will see the beauty and the elegance of it all as explained by science. (Or, of course, you might be dumb as a post and has no real chance of understanding any of this, in which case you should never breed).

“Adam had been given authority over all creation. How could God give Adam authority over other beings from another planet”
First of all, the cosmology of BibleEarth is a mud pie under an umbrella. There’s no planet. Just the sky, which is solid, and the sun, stars, moon all roll around inside it. Earth is spread over the Water Below like a smear of peanut butter.

ALL of the rest of space is no more than 400 miles up. So, the applicability of the entire bible to the question of life on other planets is a total of ‘Huh? What? What are you talking about?’

Second, even in the Bible it doesn’t say what you say it says:

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
It’s all limited to Earth. on it, over it, swimming beside it. Nothing precludes Alf being on Melmac

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