(September 25, 2008 at 6:58 pm)Jason Jarred Wrote:(September 25, 2008 at 10:36 am)starbucks Wrote: Atheists will have to argue more intelligently then think that the discovery of life outside Earth is going to shake the religious community. If anything else, it will only further support God who is already considered "almighty". If God can create Earth and all it's inhabitants, what's stopping Him from creating alien life forms and other yet to be discovered knowledge?
It no more supports the existence of God than it does the existence of unicorns.
But that's besides the point. Name-calling is not going to change anybody's mind. The thing is, once somebody believes (because the evidence they have is sufficient for them to believe) it's futile for you to disprove them.
The only worry you have is to be sure none of the evidence they offer is ever sufficient enough for you to believe. That's much harder to accomplish.
