Religions for the most part, especially Christianity, is able to be interpreted to fit any scenario that comes along. Just like all the churces in the south that supported slavery.

I was raised in a faith community that actually believed in 'unfallen worlds' where other intelligent beings have always lived without sin. Having never been tempted by the Devil, who, as the story goes, was banished to this world, and to this world only, these sinless inhabitants of other star systems would not need to be converted, as they have lived in perfect communition with God. No need for interstellar evangelists, according to this system of belief!

Clearly those intergalactic heathens need to be converted…

I'm sure they'll add that to the new new revised edition of the king James fairy tales collection. Lol

Nothing will change, for a while. They are excellent at denial and circular logic. Ask Galileo.

But, like most major social changes, after a few generations, the ones that cling to ideas of the past will be a small minority, insignificant for anything other than tabloid headlines.

I think they will find a way to rationalize that "their god" is the god of everything, including any and all alien life in the universe, and everything else too.

Mormons believe that their ascended ‘gods’ go to other planets in the universe. So, I don’t think it will do anything but reinforce their beliefs.

Umm. denial. My neighbour is sure that dinosaurs were all on the arc and starved to death about 3500 years ago after all the plants died from the flood so they had nothing to eat. So if there were ALiens - the would be because of satan trying to fool us.

Religion has always superimposed facts over the observable reality around them. The existence of aliens won't change that fact. It may disuade the people who claim religion but don't really "feel" it but the core religious people won't fundementally change.

This is a very interesting question. I have though a great deal about this. I am an agnostic who leans strongly atheist. Yet, I'm not convinced that there is life beyond the Earth. My argument comes from the same place that my skepticism of God comes from. It is really the Fermi paradox: "Where are they?" coupled with the Anthropic principle.

I hope I am proven wrong and in my lifetime as this is an extremely interesting question. Nevertheless, if alien life is never found does that strengthen the theists case? Not for me but perhaps for many others it will.

The likelihood that advanced life on another planet somewhere in the universe being remotely similar to us is astronomically low. (Pun sort of intended)
The reason why life looks the way it does now is because of the chemical composition that makes up earth. Life had to adapt to these conditions in order to exist. A good example is that the earth we know now was very different millions of years ago.
The air had a lot of carbon compounds in it and thus, if humans exist then... They wouldn't exist for very long. A lot of interesting creatures took advantage of that atmosphere, such as insects and miscellaneous bugs.
Because of the high carbon atmosphere, they were able to grow to an absurd size.
If you thought mosquitos and flies were annoying now... You wouldn't want to be around back then.

That's just one example of how the atmosphere of a planet can have a heavy influence on the life that inhabits a planet.
So imagine if we did discover life on another planet... The odds of the planet being able to replicate an atmosphere exactly like Earth's is pretty much zero. (Not going to put in the actual number because I don't want to give myself more of a headache than what I already have tonight.)
That would pretty much throw a wrench into the religious belief that we are made in "God's image"
If that's the case... Then who the hell made these aliens?

What's that? Oh right... The great religious scapegoat. The one who they always use when they don't have an answer or when something doesn't fit into their little beliefs...
"The devil did it"

To me looking up to the sky with all that we can see I find it hard to believe there isn't other life. That is why I first wondered why people believe in any god. But with the way religion trys to explain away evolution I'm sure they would come up with some wild story to explain that too.

They will just re-interpret as they have done everytime, such as the earth being round and rotating around the sun.

!! Yes..there is extra terrestrial life...the governments and their main religions deny it..because the mito about GOD. Will be destroy

And them will have not the power over the people minds about fearing GOD WRATH...!!

I don't see why it would change the basics of the religion much. It will just go to: oh, g-diddly-o-doodly, d-diddy, created them too. Now, where the problem will be is species supremecy. I think the Bahai faith will probably have a weird,"I told you so." moment.

Oh for sure scenario1..cuz Jazus..

I think there is life on this planet more intelligent than humans especially in the way they treat their own species. The first thing Christians will do when encountering beings unlike themselves is kill them. They have no desire to die for their beliefs, but jump on the chance to kill for those beliefs. Jesus would be proud.

Mysterious ways

They'll find some passage in their holy books, and twist it enough to provide an explanation.
The explanation: Goddunit!

There is no "god" so the argument is pointless ,,,,,please remember what web site you are on