RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 6:41 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2017 at 6:43 am by emjay.)
Personally I doubt that there's any possible fact, no matter how contradictory with the Bible, that the most entrenched of Christians couldn't find a way to integrate into their beliefs. That's just the nature of the beast. So either by ignoring it, redefining terms, rejecting it/conspiracy theories, or... I can't remember the word for it... it's on the tip of my tongue... adding to the Bible to make it fit... like what has been done in some places to try and consolidate the differing accounts of the tomb and the men/angels in it in the four Gospels... find a hypothetical missing link that technically does not conflict with anything stated but at the same time, ends up saying something none of them said. I can't for the life of me think of the word for it but basically I think the Bible, or any text for that matter, can basically be a core/seed surrounded by layers and layers of mental additions to make it fit with known facts, and I think that's how it survives every onslaught of science for those heavily invested in it. Either that, or making it more 'allegorical'. So personally I'm not holding out for any scientific smoking gun, because no matter how objectively convincing, I know it wouldn't change the minds of the most biased believers.
