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and im not "pretending to ask innocent questions", im seriously curious about what people think about these subjects, i may debate them, but thats only to make them more clear.
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Then you're exceedingly poor at asking questions that are not loaded and leading. Which would seem a handicap for someone in the sciences.
hmm, well joph, perhaps it is the questions that are most senstive that i ask for a reason. For two reasons actually, to understand what you think about it, and if you havent thought about it, get you to think about it.
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and here is another one: do you believe in life on other planets? and if so did the same biblical stuff happen there?
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I think there's probably at least bacterial life on other planets. I think the chance of us finding sentient life is so low that I don't spend much time worrying about the theological impact.
hmm, i find a large fallacy in this. For one, the "chance of sentient life is so low" is extremely ofbase with current antronomical data. There was a quote from "Contact" (book and movie) that i liked alot: Basically, due to the number of stars out there, if only 1 in a million of them had planets in their disks (which current studies show a hell of alot more than that do), and only 1 in a million of those planets had life, and even 1 in a million of those planets that had life had life that evolved to a sentient form, then the universe would be OVERFLOWING with sentient life. And if you go along the basic premis that life will happen where and when the means are made available(the correct chemicals are in order and all that jazz), and conceed that life does evolve, then thats to say that sentient life is more than probable, its down right certain.
Its actually very improbable that we are the only sentient beings in the universe.
But, as stated before, this would not disprove god, if i wanted to beleive in a god, i could assume that he created the universe and saw fit to use all of it instead of .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of it. (would have put in more zeros but you cant have words longer than 50 characters on a post)
This does through a damper in modern religion, which is one of many reasons i dont beleive in christianity, or any other major religion, (not counting historical evidence).
One thing i like to know about people though, is after they disband their personal superstitions and realize the falacies of man made religion, is wether they still hold onto the concept of a god. I am curious if these people just have a hard time letting go of this concept, or if they beleive in god for different reasons(ie: where di we come from).