Comments on: New Telescope Could Reveal a Milky Way Packed With Habitable Planets

By: zachary

zachary — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:30:35 +0000

Yeah, and which religion exactly holds that belief to be true? You are positing an ad-hoc supreme being simply because you like the notion of God. With no reason at all, and no religious foundation for the belief in a God that did trial and error “testing his skill.”

Sadly you are right, faith, belief in something that cannot be proven, cannot be reasoned away. We will still try though, until people stop considering “faith” something to be proud of.

By: averageiq

averageiq — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:37:39 +0000

Faith is something that can be reasoned away by science, agreed!

However, science cannot be reasoned away by faith either.

God gave us brains to use them. Thank God.

By: Tony Cisco

Tony Cisco — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:58:18 +0000

Your hypothesis is dead on up until when you get to the part that says,”Life elsewhere makes Earth far less special”(”and certainly undermines the notion that “God” played out his theatrics on this planet”).

Why would it undermine that belief?

Even if science proves that there is intelligent life on other planets and they can sustain life in the same way it does on earth.(And I believe that there is more and less intelligent life elsewhere)..It does not mean that earth was not created for humans by “God” just because of proof of extraterrestrial life elsewhere!

Hypothetically speaking; If you built a house according to a standard blueprint and you built others that did not necessarily depict your talent exactly ..You just kept building until one day you say.. I am going to build something extraordinary..Something that really depicts me as a who I am..Then you design and build a specific model of you…A house that when others look at it they say..Yeah that’s him alright! It has your specific signature on it because of the special way that it is built..

You would not be discredited that your work is not special because you have built 100 trillion or so others.. Its just that particular model is you. And that my friend would be pretty special!

As it has been written: “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” According to your statement does that mean “God” did not create other intelligent life elsewhere also but just not in his own image.

I believe that by “God” creating a carbon copy of himself or us in his image, the most powerful entity in the universe will remain pretty special to humankind no matter what they find out there.

Faith isn’t something that can be reasoned away by science or anything man can conjure up.

Nice try though. :)

By: George

George — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:15:08 +0000

* The Independent (16 February 2009)- There’s another Earth out there – and we’ll find it – Habitable planet could be located in the next four years, scientists say… The first Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star could be discovered within four years, astronomers believe:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/02/independent-theres-another-earth-out.html
* JAPANESE SCIENTISTS EYE MYSTERIOUS “PLANET X”-The researchers at Kobe University in western Japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was only a matter of time before the mysterious “Planet X” was found:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/02/search-for-ancient-supernova-in.html

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:16:19 +0000

Statistically there’s no way we’re alone — and demonstrating this will only reinforce that we humans are NOT special. We are distinct from the animal kingdom but we’re a part of it, and so too would alien (relative to our planet) life be a part of some fantastic tree of life.

Life elsewhere makes Earth far less special (and certainly undermines the notion that “God” played out his theatrics on this planet).

God, fundamentally, remains a manmade idea, projected upon the cosmos.

By: Tom Tinney, Sr.

Tom Tinney, Sr. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:18:14 +0000

Alphabetic History of Civilization:
Ancient and Modern Genealogies
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And were it possible that man could number the particles of the earth, yea,
millions of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of His
creations; for His curtains are stretched out still; and yet He is there, and
His bosom is there; and also He is just; He is merciful and kind forever;
peace, justice, truth and mercy go before His face and have no end.

From:
The Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory:
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http://academic-genealogy.com/