Do you believe in life on other planets?

Eureka! It truly is most reassuring to finally discover that other intelligent life forms like (Susanna, Thomas and Religious Historian) actually do exist here behind the radical fundamentalist pine curtain of East Texas. What an uplifting, warm and welcome relief after having tirelessly endured so many years of constantly being barraged, persecuted and aggrieved by the relentless scourge of tyrannical jesus hucksters and the rest of their pious ilk.

One need only read but a few of their vindictive, senseless, spurious attacks, biased obscenities and gutteral, rabid, pre-neanderthal level, intellectually-challenged jibberish and venomous, toxic poisonous excrement being hurled at you and others who don't roll over and submit to the insane mandates of their harsh and unwarranted, oppressive belief system. Many Kudos to you for your gallant voices and display of chivalry. You are wise beyond your years and have definitely proven your case beyond a shadow of doubt. Were it not for the precious few and cognizant folks like yourselves, there would not be much optimism remaining for this planet along with its copious fatuous inhabitants. The rest of humanity would still be suffering through the fascist Dark Ages, with its savage, vindictive, divide and conquer mentality, baseless inquisitions, unjustified persecutions, superstitious doctrine, book burnings and witch hunts. It is profoundly sad and unfortunate that so many around this neck of the woods choose to forever remain uninformed and irreversibly afflicted with self-imposed delusion, dementia, herd mentality, spite, bitterness and hatred toward any of their fellow men and women who so valiantly dare to excogitate and step outside of the theosophical box.

Regarding whether there is proof of life on other planets, as our scientists predict is likely, I don't think it speaks one way or the other to the existence of a mono-theistic God. It might, however, require us to revise our ideas about our place in the universe, and the nature of the divine mystery, but it does not necessarily compell us to believe anything other than what the evidence tells us--namely, that in all probability there is life apart from us.

Many Christians have fallen into the trap that the authority of their adherent Abrahamic religious dictate rests on scripture and staunch unwavering faith, so that if decreed scripture is even somewhat contradicted in the least little way, it seems to disrupt their fragile paradigm and undermine the whole redemption project. Scripture has already been contradicted by voluminous amounts of well-researched, scrutinized, documented and cross-referenced scientific evidence--i.e., the sun does not go around the earth, all religions and religious belief systems derived from ancient sun worship which was practiced among the various primordial cultures, the earth is much older than 6,000 years, the earth is not the center of the universe, the earth is not flat, evolution along with the evolution intervention theory as posed by Lloyd Pye, steady state and plasma theory is an undeniable fact.. all of this is confirmed by at least a dozen or more sciences. Even with the indesputable fact that science contradicts the scriptures in many details does not make scripture completely invalid in every other respect, however. (Score one for the Christians, Amen?) If someone has proven you wrong on some minor point in an argument, it does not make you wrong, wrong, wrong in every aspect of your entire life, so why would it be so in scripture? It's only those who take the absurd view that scripture is either 100% valid and True or it is False, who are going to have a hard time with the concept of extra-terrestial life. I can tell you from personal experience from having debated with such people, they will simply not accept any of the "proof" and will stubbornly deny it to their last dying breath, much like they do any mention of the evolution theory, the big bang, the electric universe theory, cyclic universe, inflation theory, the evolution intervention theory, the aspect of divine consciousness, etc.

This is an absolute shame because you don't have to be 100% right in order to be right. Science, after all, only requires 95% statistical confidence in order to accept a finding. In law you only need a "preponderance" or "clear and convincing" or beyond a "reasonable doubt." Nowhere in human life do we require 100% certainties. Nonetheless, there are some who do believe that scripture gives them 100% certainty in their beliefs. And because they do not believe that there is any possibility that they are mistaken, (Oh My! God forbid... How dare anyone have such devil-inspired and demonic thoughts... Why... You evil, unorthodox heretical blasphemers!!! Burn in Hell...Arghh!!!!!) they immediately close their minds off to other people and become most offensive and obnoxious in character. (And, most assuredly of course, they become genuinely maddened and enraged when others do not follow the rest of the obedient flock and believe just as they do.)

So, it all boils down to not much more than that... Those who believe in a long-haired, bearded savior will still believe in one no matter what, and those who don't won't.

Those who believe otherwise will make room in their personal belief for the fact of life on other planets, or then again they'll deny that life on other planets exist, regardless of the overwhelming evidence. And probably the proof, at least early on, will be highly technical and prone to multiple interpretations. Can anyone doubt that the furor will be less than that over say, global warming or socialist healthcare?

Those who currently don't believe in a masculine larger-than-life, noble redeemer will not take the discovery of extraterestrial life as an indication of a heroic, supreme being and so for them there will be no philosophical crisis - except for that small subset of people who feel that our being alone in the universe is that very condition which makes life here on earth so very special.

Einstein's theory of relativity does not invalidate Newton's Laws of Physics, rather, it simply places them in a larger context. It extends and deepens our understanding of them. As science opens the universe to us, we should allow that understanding to place our religious beliefs in a larger context. In my view we should be reasonable-minded and willing to embrace this unfolding of the divine mystery rather than vehemently resist and deny it.

This is a shame because you don't have to be 100% right in order to be right. Science, after all, only requires 95% statistical confidence in order to accept a finding. In law you only need a "preponderance" or "clear and convincing" or beyond a "reasonable doubt." Nowhere in human life do we require 100% certainties. Nonetheless, there will always and forever be those who do believe that their particular narrative of biblical Scripture gives them 100% certainty in their beliefs. And because they do not believe that there is any possibility that they are mistaken, they will savagely close their minds off to other people. (And, of course, they will always predictably snap and lose their temper, become fervent, outraged, spiteful and venomous-tongued toward others who do not blindly believe as they do.)

Life on other planets? Why would we even speculate on that subject? Earth is the only known planet with life giving water. I would like the "BIG-BANG" theorists to explain how it got here. One suggestion is that massive blocks of ice entered our atmosphere. That's a lot of ice, considering no other planets got hit with this life giving substance. I have an extraordinary idea. Maybe God did do it!

Short answer, no mumbo jumbo - yes.

Call - Duty Modern WarFare I just got done playing this game last night, in fact I have all the call duty games. I feel first it's a game not life, I would say that if moms and dads feel this is not a game there kids should have or play or even see then that's what they need to. It's is a little more violent then the past games and since things are happening with our troops Here over seas that this would not be good for ANYONE who can understand this is a game NOT real life. Also I was in the Nevada Air Gaurd from 1975 - 1978. I missed going to war in that time, form this game helps me understand what went on that I didn't have to, I went thought a gulit of not going to fight.
I have to tell Charlotte sorry for my last comment, that was hard for her to read on air, I hope this time is easyer to read.
Lee