(May 29, 2018 at 1:52 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(May 29, 2018 at 1:45 pm)Mathilda Wrote: What would be even more amazing than the aliens have a christian like religion would be if they looked exactly like humans. It's a standard trope in sci-fi which we all take for granted but the chances of that happening are negligible.
I'd be blown away by that too, but there could be evolutionary reasons for that to happen. Fingers are neccesary for tool use, upright walking for distance travel, etc. So I'd be shocked for sure, but I'd say a Christian like religion I'd put it in the realm of so shocking as to be miraculous.
But you could have two species occupying a similar niche leading to convergent evolution and coming up with similar solutions and you'd still not be able to pass one off as the other.
I mean, two eyes, a nose, mouth, upright, fingers, two ears etc. By itself it's not actually enough to look human. Humanoid aliens would also have to share a similar evolutionary history. And even then a neanderthal would stand out in a crowd from homo sapien for example. Because if you get too close but not close enough then you get the uncanny valley effect.
So yes, aliens able to pass themselves off as humans on the right side of the uncanny valley would be far more amazing than aliens with a religion that had simple functional similarities to christianity.
