RE: What do you think will happen to Religion if Extra Terrestrial Life were discover
July 16, 2010 at 11:58 pm
(July 16, 2010 at 6:15 pm)chasm Wrote: Superstarr: Though I agree with you, I have to say, you're a little off. How do you know that the space travelers would be just like us? I mean, how do you know that new technologies would have been scorned, and all that religious stuff happened, etc? How do you know that their timeline and our timeline would look almost exactly alike? I don't think they would. They would be another species, in another galaxy... It's highly doubtful that their history would be similar to ours. Even if they were religious, they could be more advanced than us. Maybe on their planet they didn't have a bunch of other different religions, just one. Maybe they were able to achieve a utopia (even if it's a religious utopia) much faster than us, and therefore advanced in technologies much quicker.
The thing is, as far as we know, Religion is an invention of mankind and the ET's could have some other type of belief system. But really, we wouldn't care about sharing religion, we would share knowledge, because knowledge is more useful.
(July 16, 2010 at 4:50 pm)Godhead Wrote: Superstarr :Your name was misleading.
I never said that god created everything in 6 days. I'm not a christian. I don't think you understood the question, you seem to be centering most of what you're saying on religions here on earth, mainly christianity. What I was saying was, if extra terrestrials came here, and if they happened to be religious (it goes without saying that their religion would not be identical to christianity, to say the least), how would atheists get on with them? Being an atheist doesn't equal being a scientist. But those atheists who do know something about science, would they try to educate these religious ETs about science, or would it be a case of the ETs educating all of us about science? Surely they'd know much more than any scientist here, whether atheist or not.
I think that we would just ignore that they have religions and concentrate on what's more important. They could show us new technology, and maybe we can teach them about Earth. Because if we start teaching religions to them, they'll end up thinking that we might be odd or can't make up our minds on belief system. But overall, we wouldn't want to share religions. Well, maybe those extremists. But I doubt that they would travel all the lightyears to learn aboout religions. They want knowledge, not beliefs, as what we would want if we came to them.
