(January 20, 2015 at 11:39 am)Heywood Wrote:(January 20, 2015 at 5:12 am)jesus_wept Wrote: Tbh this was a rhetorical question really and I was just hoping to point out the arrogance of Christianity, not only are Christians big headed enough to think the entire universe was made for them but they think god actually came to this insignificant speck of dust to "save" them. And I think your threat, telling me I should go to church if they do believe in Jesus, shows the petty Christian mindset for all it is.
If aliens came to this planet for the first time proclaiming Allah is God and Mohammed is his prophet, I would suggest you start going to Mosque. My "threat" has nothing to do with Christian mindset. It has to do with a position that if aliens independently practiced a religion earthlings also practice, that would suggest to me that such a religion is divinely inspired. It is much more likely that Allah is God and Mohammed is his prophet than for the exact same religion to emerge on another planet as a matter of happenstance.
This is just my opinion of course.
The more parsimonious explanation would be that those aliens had been here 1400 years ago and started Islam.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
