RE: What do you think will happen to Religion if Extra Terrestrial Life were discover
July 17, 2010 at 1:17 pm
(July 17, 2010 at 9:07 am)Godhead Wrote: Darwinian -
There are many different types of theistic beliefs, and different types of religions. As you say and obviously it's true, we only have earth as a frame of reference. However, we can quite easily conceive of the idea of a religion which doesn't hinder scientific pursuits. So, for example, it's conceiveable that there could be extra terrestrials who have a religion, but which doesn't get in the way of scientific advancement. Their theistic belief could quite simply be : There's a god, it created the universe, strive to become the best person you can, explore the universe, learn, evolve.
I also doubt that they would have any religion because if they are as scientificly advanced as we portray them to be, they most likely will have methods of time travel and therefore, go back in time to see the start of their civilization. They could use the time travel to see if there was indeed an omnipotent being at work. If they find out that there wasn't (which will most likely be the case) there wouldn't be any need of any religious beliefs because traveling back in time would answer if those beliefs were right or not.
