RE: What do you think will happen to Religion if Extra Terrestrial Life were discover
July 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2010 at 4:28 pm by superstarr.)
(July 16, 2010 at 1:54 pm)Godhead Wrote: What I mean is, how would atheists get on with religious extra terrestrials? Would they try to educate them, or would the extra terrestrials be in a position to educate all of us? If they had the means to get here, I'd say the latter.If they were religious (highly doubtful) they wouldn't have technologies superior to ours. Here's why.
If like you say that God created everything within 6 days, they would have gone through the same time frame that we did, and if they were religious, you'll notice that they should be around the same technologies as we have today because of heavy over-exaggerated beliefs for about 1000+ years that didn't allow new knowledge on the natural world. If they were religious, they wouldn't be past our technologies in fact, they should be similar. But if they were able to find us via space travel, you'll see that it wasn't the case and would completely contradict the idea of God making everything within a couple days, because they wouldn't have such advanced technology if God made everything within that time frame. That means that they existed long before humans ever thought of technology.
And there would be a problem teaching them any religion, because the Christians would want to teach them Christianity, the Buddists would want to teach them Buddhism, the Hindus would want to teach them Hinduism, the Islamics would want to teach them of Islam it would literally be a fight of which religions should they learn about, in fact, the ET's may think we are a weird civilization for making all of these unreasonable things up. The only thing we can talk about to them is Science because science is religiously neutral so that things would be even and friendly.
EDIT: Some things I wanted to add.