(August 4, 2010 at 5:17 am)AnunZi Wrote: So my question to you Ace is this.
Why should aliens giving even more evidence change anything?
It won't. It will only take things to the next level. Already religion is under serious threat because religion thrives on lack of knowledge. The more we know, the smaller the need is to jump to a god belief.
We didn't know about the sun at one point. We saw it as a god (apollo) but that belief cannot possibly stand today because we know what the sun is. How it works. We didn't know about the solar system and we even believed that everything revolved around us, but not now. Because we know now.
We don't know how the universe came about and so once again, religion takes advantage of that lack of knowledge and fills in the missing gaps with goddidit...(god of the gaps). One day we may very well know that too. Knowledge is the greatest threat to religion. If an alien race who is far more advanced than us with far greater knowledge, their knowledge would seriously weaken religion. Religion is running out of room and I think it's this that will kill off religion. An alien race with greater knowledge will I believe devistate religion by contradicting countless beliefs.
Religion is weak and getting weaker. Knowledge is what weakens it, why else do religious nuts insist that we do not question?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.