My question is not whether or not civilization exists on other planets...there's a very good chance that many, many do; My question is...do they believe in God? Would they have their own Jesus/Muhammed/Buddha, etc?
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I think a better question in this situation is, "How the hell is anyone here supposed to know that, much less COME UP WITH A SERIOUS ANSWER!"
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The question shouldn't be do they exist - it should be where are they and do they know we exist......  The universe is too big for there not to be another life form out there, but they may be 100Million years in advance or a zillion years behind us.  So yes, is your answer.  The next question should be - Has anyone actually ever seen one on this planet ?
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What country you live in????\nGreat to discover, your fellow citizens don't believe in a so called "God" or "Other Gods".\nI'm glad I'm not the only one on this planert who's a non-believer.\nIn my country (i.e. Belgium), we have almost every kind of religion.
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i think you have answered your question pretty well. i think we will be dead by the time this is possible, but i do think we can find/inhabit a different planet in about???????????years. and as far as the bible goes, fiction novel. its hard for me to believe that so many peoples lives revolve around this book. god and santa are laughing it up with the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, while millions of weird-o's stand sit kneel, stand sit kneel....crazy
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I am sorry to not be able to offer better company. If it is of any relief, I did meet one guy a long time ago who was a true atheist. His belief was that mankind would be better off the sooner they realized that a higher power was neither existant nor necessary. I was intrigued to find someone of such a like and opinion. Although I do not agree, I did respect his thoughts and beliefs. Unfortunately, the rest of the class overheard and went off on him. I had to apologize for it was not my intention when I first asked. So, no, you're not alone.
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Well, whether we're even considered intelligent or not would depend on who else is out there in the vast cosmos.  Scientists estimate that there are so many stars and so many planets, even if only one in a billion have life, then there are bound to be other planets with life more advanced then we are.  \n\nInterestingly, in the discussion about creation of the universe and the earth found in the biblical book of Genesis, there's not a word about Earth being the only inhabited world that God created.  \n\nSo yes, the possibility exists.
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I'm not, but I do appreciate having people in this section besides all the christians.  they kind of dominate it.  i consider myself a pantheist - god is all of existence, and nothing more - no divine conscious.  "god is the universe"  Additionally I do zen meditation.  neither of these practices do i really consider to be religious.  Christians would probably call me an atheist, because i don't believe in what they call God or really in anything supernatural.
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They believe that God was once like you or I and became "enlightned" or glorified. They also believe that every person here on earth has the potential to also become like God. I dont think it takes away from his awesomeness, but rather gives us a great goal to strive for. Dont you think it would be cool to make your own universes if you had the proper knowledge to do so?
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Sure. Here are a few possibilites\n\n1. There is an all powerful , omnicient being whom created the universe - perhaps we're part of their 4th period cosmology class experiement. Lets help God get an "A" and not fubar ourselves into oblivion. Maybe it's a Universe sized version of Sim Earth where you get a better score depending on how many intelligent species survive or something. This implies that other aliens would be just as good as us but let's be comic racists and say you get "extra-credit" if Humanity survives. \n\n2. There is no God, the universe was caused by an unknown/unknowable event from an ultradense soup of subatomic matter energy. Aliens and Humans all alone in a big universe 14 billion light years across.\n\n3. Maybe it's all about Star Trek, Maybe there is a God or race of Gods (think the Q from Star Trek) who evolved in our Universe and  are so powerful they can engineer whole star systems and promote or kill off species as they see fit. \n\n4. Star Trek again, Maybe there's an advanced human species which , to a bunch of primitive herders,merchants and farmers, someone who beams up to heaven and is "from Heaven" and "Goes up to the stars" really is just some crewman on a starship. Perhaps Jesus or Mohammed were just an really just a xeno-archeologist who came from an advanced race that is guiding our civilization. \n\n5. There are God like entities or god-civilizations in the universe but they are too busy doing other God-like things to bother with us. Perhaps when they find us or we find them we won't even be able to communicate with them. \n\n6. God is a consciousness or energy based being who can move backwards and forwards through time and cohabitate or live inside us - experiencing the world as we do. That would make the statements that "we are all God", that "God lives in every one of us for as long as we live" perhaps literally true. The Christian Trinity could be explained by this situation.
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If you mean by "aliens" people who live on other planets, sure.   It is inconceivable to think that of the billions and billions of planets out there, only earth would be populated by intelligent beings.
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Let's take the religious aspect away from this question first. Even if we assume that there is no God, then the probability of other lifeforms existing elsewhere in the universe is extremely high.\n\nEven in our "visible" universe taking the number of stars with the ratio that are expected to have planets, with the ratio of those that should have planets capable of supporting life, with the ratio of those where life has actually started, we still come out with a significant number. When we start thinking about the concept of the "multiverse" with the existence of other dimensions, then this becomes mind-boggling.\n\nComing back to religion, it is a natural aspect of the human mind that we should see ourselves as central to the importance of the universe. So it was when we thought ourselves to be the centre of the solar system and, no doubt, so it will be as and when we discover something outside the currently visible universe.\n\nI think most people (other than creationists) see the story of Genesis as an allegory. I personally see no clash at all between my scientific views and my beliefs as a Christian. If God created life, why should he have not created it elsewhere as well as on Earth.\n\nSo the answer to your question is, yes.........there has to be other planets (or indeed moons) with life on them, may be even within our own solar system !
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It's just in there minds. They aren't gods chosen people....everyone obviously thinks they are gods chosen people but are they all gods chosen people? I DON'T THINK SO!
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All religion is 'belief'. The Universe is a fact. Many if not all 'religions' believe that their God created the Universe. Christians generally do not subscribe to the idea that there MAY be 'life' as we know it outside the Earth.  But then very few Christians (or Jews for that matter) have considered the 6th Chapter of Genesis, verses 1-4. \n\nIf they did they would be less arrogant about how 'right' they are. \n\nThere may well be space travellers as that text suggests
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To me what hinduism say seems resonable, so i think god is like some energy and much more, who is spread every where from nucleus to billions of light years in the universe.  He has no birth or death and one day we become part of him.  I am not certainly not a great believer, but to some extent.
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I'd imagine there is.... the universe is way to big to assume that we are the only planet with 'civilized' life on it.\n\n& really... are we THAT civilized???   :P
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Wow:  Thanks for the info about the DNA.  For those readers that wondered how the world comes into being without God creating what He alone is able and willing, such info as the DNA, let alone the rest of the whole complex of Created mass and masterpieces, it rests on this issue.  You see, you think, and you understand.  OR you see, and refuse to see, you think and you refuse to think, and you refuse to understand.  Part of that matter of Free choice.  The simple fact is, what you choose to believe is also part of the gift you were given in Creation.  You believe or not, and amazing, it gives you a part in the rest of the community.  There are adequate numbers of unbelievers, that will all affirm your faithlessness, just as there are adequate numbers of believers who will affirm your believe in pagan cult, just as there are adequate numbers of believers in Islam, or Christianity or any other form religion.  Numbers however, doesnt affirm factuallity.  Flat world theorists believe it.  Round world hanging in space believe it.  Sun circling the earth believers affirm it, as do earth circling the sun believers affirm their bit of observation.  \n   Did Noach go searching for the animals?  No, the Text says, according to Moses, affirming that GOd instructed him to write, that God caused the animals to come to the ark.  Noachs job was to build it and stock it with grain and grass, as all the animals would eat vegetarian while aboard, including Noach and family.  Is that possible?  Depends on how you view and believe.  Impossible for those who refuse to believe that GOD was involved.  Possible for those that choose to believe in such miracle process or natural process.   It is all amazing, no matter what you believe.  If you believe God created, thats amazing.  From my point of view thats acceptable.  What would be more amazing is to try to figure out how all this world in all its complexity came into being without a Creator God, since it is obviously more complex than any human can contrive.  Heck,,,we cant even create a blade of grass from nothing, let alone a human eye..or the rest of a human being.\n   The story of the group of scientists who were all working on a grand assignment, to duplicate life...and one day they all agreed, they had done it.  Accomplished the grand impossible,  they had developed a life form in a petri dish.   Eureka they shouted...we did it.  We dont need GOD any more.   THEN GOD SAID :  Now, try it without anything:  No dirt, no fire, no water, no air and no petri dish.
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Answer: Of course\nDo you think God would put you on a planet where none were right? Especially if you like Him?? Same goes that all can't be right thus only one can.\nMost folks don't follow truth B/c I think it actually hurts them to. I think it makes them invent their own "truths" instead.