(January 20, 2015 at 11:39 am)Heywood Wrote: 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.Even in the almost unimaginable scenario where this happened, it wouldn't prove that Allah is God. It would prove that the two lifeforms were bound by a communication link-- another species, or an ancient settlement of humans that we had long forgotten about.
It would be pretty exciting and mysterious. But it STILL wouldn't prove a magical Sky Daddy is disapprovingly watching teenage boys masturbating in the shower.
