NASA: The Skies are alive, now what...

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  james_woods

  Never get this, EVER! I am not a Christian, but why does every time there is evidence of life elsewhere. People loss faith in God? I think what they loss faith in, is the Christian God. Which as we know is just a myth that was passed down from one myth religion to the next and not real. However, that does not mean a divine or higher power does not exist. It just means we are not as important to it, as these earthly religions teach. Meaning, we are not the center to it's universe. We are just part of it, in it, and life finds a way and spreads. Personally, I think it is awesome.

  I agree with all the above - but note:

  This claim has been scientifically rejected as not true. So, we are still waiting for a legitimate proof, as before.
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  moshe

  This claim has been scientifically rejected as not true. So, we are still waiting for a legitimate proof, as before

  It's too bad Saddam Hussein didn't know how to prove he didn't have any WMD's, it could have saved us a war and a lot of borrwed money used to pay for it.

  Finding a needle in a haystack in this case is a tall order, but not impossible- you have to be willing to look for the evidence and to keep at it.
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  james_woods

  Finding a needle in a haystack in this case is a tall order, but not impossible- you have to be willing to look for the evidence and to keep at it.

  Exactly. Which is why I really hate to see people jumping the gun on this for their own publicity.

  I really wonder if this kind of research or the SETI effort has the better chance -
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  glenster

  
  "why does every time there is evidence of life elsewhere. People loss faith in
  God? I think what they loss faith in, is the Christian God."

  As knowledge increases, some of faith don't adapt, possibly stuck on pet
  interpretations, but others do.

  I have several basics in understanding faith as such: don't mess with the in-
  creasing known proven facts that faith hopes for a possible God beyond, don't be
  'centric and intolerant whether you believe in God this way that way or no way,
  and that nobody should be hurt or killed over whichever of those choices. Find-
  ings on exoplanets are part of the facts.

  There's a good article on exoplanets, etc., occasionally at the Science Daily
  web site (which I have as part of my iGoogle home page).
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100803072848.htm
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/search/?keyword=exoplanets

  I'm not Catholic, but according to José Gabriel Funes, an Argentine Jesuit
  priest and astronomer, who's the current director of the Vatican Observatory,
  "In an interview in May 2008 he stated that the possible existence of intelligent
  extraterrestrials did not contradict church teaching."
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Gabriel_Funes

  "The Catholic political philosopher Comte Joseph de Maistre responded to
  Paine’s claims by suggesting that Christ’s earthly Incarnation was a sacrifice
  whose power reached throughout the cosmos. He quoted the ancient Catholic theo-
  logian Origen: 'The altar was at Jerusalem, but the blood of the Victim bathed
  the universe.'”
  http://www.osv.com/tabid/7631/itemid/7002/Life-on-Other-Planets.aspx
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  james_woods

  "The Catholic political philosopher Comte Joseph de Maistre responded to
  Paine’s claims by suggesting that Christ’s earthly Incarnation was a sacrifice
  whose power reached throughout the cosmos. He quoted the ancient Catholic theo-
  logian Origen: 'The altar was at Jerusalem, but the blood of the Victim bathed
  the universe.'”

  But what if other extraterrestrial "Adam and Eves" did not commit equivalent original sins?
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  designs

  Bacteria- sinning since the beginning of time......