Of course. That's how we got Intelligent Design...
Who cares what they think?
You will when they're making the laws...
If they are creationists, who cares what else they would believe? They have found what makes them happy and most likely there would be no changing their minds. So wait till an Alien comes to earth before expecting them to change?
Strange, though, they believed in angels - certainly aliens. lol
Yes they will, First Jesus did not rise soon enough from the dead so they had to create the second coming Over two thousands years waiting for the second coming, they now say we are not ready,
If we hear of life from outside, it will of course be their jesus or what ever god. It is their inability to be rational
I’m sure there’s life on other planets and I imagine some of them have visited the earth. The universe is just to vast for us humans to be the only intelligent life in existence. I have no idea how the religious nuts would react if we were visited by aliens. They might say the aliens were created by the devil,
they won't believe it or say the devil's work. have you seen the film, Paul?
Loved that movie!
yes very good
How have I not seen this movie? I'll be back in a few hours...
your going to love it Jeff
I remember speaking with one of those religious idiot, and I asked him what if we find out that there is at least one planet with intelligent life in the galaxy other than earth. His response " the devil will have created them." the Spanish priests and the church said the same things about the Natives in Central and South America when they encountered them. Their rationale was because the bible did not mention them, they must have been created by the devil, and that was their justification for murder.
Yes, don't they already think that their God created the universe, so why not every thing in it
IIRC, there have been at least one or two sects that believed in aliens, considered them "God's children too" and planned to spread the word of Christ among them. However, by the standards of things religious people do and believe in, that probably scored fairly low on the Weirdometer!
A pastor at a church in Cle elum said there were dinosaurs on the ark. problem solved. They just make shit up as they go along.
Mainstream religion however would have to completely change in order to survive a discovery like this. Did Jesus save the aliens too? Are there Holy Bibles on other planets? Haha.
The apologetics would get so ridiculous and cause some major cognitive dissonance; Judaism, Christianity and Islam would collapse pretty quickly in my opinion.
It depends upon their means of transport, if the aliens arrive in a spaceship then the churches would call them devils, but if they just appear by tele-portation, like legend has it, the churches might welcome them saying 'It's the second coming'.
I am just saying this would be such obvious proof that religion is nonsense if aliens were discovered. But you're probably right, nothing will ever convince the mind of the True Believer, despite the piles of evidence against it. Evolution is a fact and actually DOES disprove a literal account of Genesis, yet millions still believe it anyways.
Or they will claim God is actually an alien or something along those lines. The Mormons, Heaven's Gate and other groups have held similar beliefs.