by gumby 47 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Well.....I'm blown away by all the comments that seem to be the same. Nobody's faith would be shaken so far. Wanna know what I think? I think many of you are mistaken a bit. I'll bet if living creatures were found there, it would set everone back in their seats and most would re-evaluate their current beliefs.
Gumby
There is no other life on other planets. if there was other humans or animals living on other planets then GOD would have told us in the bible. Everything that we need to know is in the bible. My faith was challenged when i was 15 by evolution. No details, just remember that it does not exist!
There is no other life on other planets. if there was other humans or animals living on other planets then GOD would have told us in the bible.
Now THERE is some solid proof! Thanks U2K! It never crossed my mind to see such an obvious answer! You must be pretty bright.
Gumby
Gumby, did you just now realize that u2k is a master debater?
Would your faith be challenged if no one responded to your question?
carmel
Like Dr. Watson, I used to think about this when I was a dub. What would I do if intelligent life were found? In my mind, I imagined the life being biologically very different from anything seen on Earth, and intelligent enough that we could communicate and learn about each other's cultures. I had to admit to myself that if ever such life contacted us, viewed in the context of an interstellar community, one puny Earth religion would seem very petty indeed.
I would be quite excited if life were discovered on Mars, even if only bacterial life. It has many implications. If it could be demonstrated that the life did not evolve from a strain of bacteria that started on Earth, it would mean that the leap from pre-biotic compounds to living systems happened more than once. (Whether this process was aided by God or not is a philosophical question.) If that were true, it would greatly increase the likelihood that the same leap happened many times throughout the universe, and that there may very well be advanced civilizations elsewhere.
I personally don't feel that there is much room for hope of finding life on Mars, but if it were there, it would certainly be an exciting discovery.
SNG
I think many of you are mistaken a bit. I'll bet if living creatures were found there, it would set everone back in their seats and most would re-evaluate their current beliefs.
Why?? Someone had to dig those canals!!
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest - no challenge to faith, here.
There's some pretty wacky stuff in our own solar system, far less taking the statistically probabilities...
I would be really excited if there were life on Mars, it could give us a much better understanding of what is going on in the universe.
I have no faith in the bible hence no effect on it.
NASA rover sends snapshots from Mars Spirit spacecraft bounces to a landing, snaps landscapes
Bill Ingalls / NASA via AP
NASA Administrator Sean O?Keefe, right, and Principal Investigator Steve Squyres, pointing at screen, examine the first images arriving from Mars after the landing of the Spirit rover on Saturday night. |
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By Alan Boyle Science editor MSNBC Updated: 9:14 a.m. ET Jan. 04, 2004
The first of NASA's two Mars rovers landed safely on an open stretch within Gusev Crater on Saturday night and sent back screenfuls of black-and-white images, marking a successful start to NASA's first ground-level exploration of the Red Planet in more than six years.
The applause was renewed hours later when Spirit rover linked up with another NASA orbiter, Mars Odyssey, and sent its first batch of snapshots. The first image showed the spacecraft's sundial/calibration target, and soon the screens at JPL were filled with panoramas of level Martian terrain, littered with rocks.
