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Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology (abc11.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I am not convinced until someone shows me some actual evidence.

Regardless, I am interested to see how the religious zealots will try to explain aliens when "god created man in his likeness". Oh yeah, did he create aliens in his likeness too? Or will they come up with another "immaculate conception by a ghost"-like crazy explanation noone has every heard about?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I've actually heard religious people talk about the idea of aliens.

Essentially their conclusion was that the bible doesn't rule out aliens because it doesn't say God didn't make other planets with life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m sure I read recently that the Vatican is not against the idea

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The Vatican is pretty pro science. It's a lot of the other Christian faiths that are overly strict with their interpretation of the bible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, nothing in the Bible says there can’t be aliens. It doesn’t really change anything. For the Christians who deny the possibility of aliens, they probably just have a superiority complex, as do many who claim to know more than they do or who claim their theories on origin of life are definitive. Nothing new with humanity.

[–] Hairypooper 1 points 2 years ago

The idea of extraterrestrial life has been commonplace since the 1600s. Since then, there's been many waves of belief-disbelief in extraterrestrial life.

This won't be anything new for Christianity to ponder, and they'll have plenty of theological material to fall back on.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 2 years ago

Cult I grew up in believes their god seeded human life across the universe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"god created man in his likeness". Oh yeah, did he create aliens in his likeness too?

Depends on what that "likeness" is. What if "God created both man and alien to be bloodthirsty creatures to fight each other"... and the winner gets to fight God live on GodTV. In the meantime, tune in to PlanetaryWars channel this weekend to see a whole civilization annihilate itself!

[–] Archer 3 points 2 years ago

I would like to subscribe to your papal schism!

[–] reddig33 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe by likeness it means sentience, not physical appearance.