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The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?

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The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
May 1, 2017 at 6:21 pm
(May 1, 2017 at 4:37 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(May 1, 2017 at 12:59 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I think you might be over estimating what we can detect of those planets.  It's not like the artist representations that you see.

Considering that I ignore artist representations I don't see them as an issue.

Ok.... by looking at how we detect these planets, I don't see how saying we are close to discovering life is anything more than optimism. But I do hope I am incorrect or am missing some new tech which does make something like that possible. There are a lot of difficulties to overcome.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it? - by RoadRunner79 - May 1, 2017 at 6:21 pm

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