(December 28, 2011 at 1:55 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Hers a thought how would theists take finding lie on another planet?
Would this be an argument for or against god? you could argue both ways.
1: There is life on another planet, the universe teems with life so earths special relationship is null and void so no god.
2: Life on other planet is proof that the universe is 'fine tuned' for life therefore god exists.
There may be other arguments but what do theists think?
There was a discovery of an exoplanet a few years ago which as I remember led to someone drawing up a flowchart for xtians. I'm sure it was posted on Pharyngula or Bad Astronomy but I can't seem to find it again. So here's my version of it which I redrafted identically at the time for some reason:
![[Image: Newplanetdiscoveryaccordingtoxtians.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i160.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ft187%2FSteambum%2FNewplanetdiscoveryaccordingtoxtians.jpg)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
