Is there a possiblity that life exist on other planets..does that do the teaching of the bible harm?
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I think it's small-minded of us to assume that God made this huge universe and only put life on one planet. Just because the Bible doesn't mention it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Bible is supposed to be God's story one Earth...maybe other planets have their own Bibles. The only certian thing is that there is one God, one Jesus the savior of all people, and one Holy Spirit, who continues to work in us to this day. God is God, He can do whatever he wants, including making life on other planets.
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Exactly... nobody knows if theres life on other planets and its actually quite ignorant for people to believe that we are so superior that we are the only life on the universe.\n\nLife requires certain things to occur in order if its going to happen.  I can go on about this for hours... first things first... life in its simpliest for are anything that are self replicating.  It requires a perfect solvent for biological reactions.  Water is great since the properties of water surpass all others.  this is why you here NASA is trying to search for traces of water on mars... because with water and the right conditions, anything could happen.\n\nCurrently, theres only a limited number of known planets besides the ones in our solar system...  other planets outside our solar systems are hard to detect since they do not emit light of any source so they can no be seen.  The other planets are discovered by the wobble effects of the stars (look it up).  We do not know how many planets per star nor the types of planets they are (more than likely with this method, they have to be very massive like jupiter).
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life exists on other planets.  it may be something like bacteria, or something large and intelligent.  life was created by chance though, and Earth had 6 mass extinctions where each had the potential to stop life in its tracks.  ironcaly, the extinctions caused evolution to speed up, but thats getting off the subject.  if life is on other planets, which i amm sure of, they will be like nothing any human can think of.  look at earth and how only a continent away can cause large differences in animals.  the planet will provide different challenges for life and evolution to overcome, the life might not even have DNA and RNA, they may have a completely different nucleic acid/genetic material.  its unlikely we will ever find them within the next century, though.  we simply wont have the space travel capabilities.  in time, though, i am positive that we will stumble across life, may be just odd bacteria or could be something like the aliens from ALIEN or the Covenant from Halo games.  we just dont know.  lizard-men?  highly unlikely.
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Statistically it is pretty much a cert that there is life elsewhere in the universe notwithstanding the calculations are based on huge assumptions.\n\nThe issue is more one of distance ... bit philisophical but if life exists elsewhere but we are unable to perceive it, does it exist?
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if ur asking if we, as humans, can be sure the no one else exists on the other planets? then no..no one can be so sure, but the facts gathered about the other planets, such as chemicals in the air, etc... can tell something about the planets..
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There are many planets discovered (through pictures of many forms). There haven't been any planets discovered with life on them, but there have been many planets discovered.
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No body know for certain. However, the universe is so vast, with so many celestial bodies that it seems rather improbable if the only place in the whole mutiverse that harbors life is planet Earth.
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I don't know if any Christian Church has taken a position on this one way or the other.  I think you have to ask individual Christians. \n\nAs for me, I have no idea whether there is extraterrestrial life or not -- it's not a matter of "belief" it's a matter of not having had the opportunity to find out yet.
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It is more likely than not that there are many planets in the universe with life and many of those may have "intelligent" life.\n\nWe have just only obtained the ability to detect planets in other solar systems and we can only detect very large ones. We do not have the ability to detect Earth like planets.\n\nWithin our own solar system, we have yet to find undisputable evidence of life on any of the planets we have activley searched for it. Many scientists are optimistic about finding microbial life forms within our solar system though. There are still pleanty of places on Mars, for example, that we simply haven't looked, and there are many moons in our solar system with the potential for supporting microbial, and even more complex life forms. Jupiter's moon Europa is a good candidate because it is covered by a sheet of ice and thought to have liquid water oceans underneath. Due to Jupiter's gravity constantly tugging on the planet, it is likely geologically active and thermal vents may exist in it's under ice oceans. Here on Earth, underwater thermal vents are teeming with life, even though no sun light reaches them.
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No,  the Bible is already facing a lot of criticism, even the majority of it's followers do not believe the book is literal.  In another 2000 years our knowledge of the Universe will be enormous, such people that believe in the Bible will be considered insane, and probably treated.\n\nIf Science and Society were to push Biotechnology, along with Nanotechnology there is a possibility that some of us could live to see the year 4000.  After all the body is just a machine programmed to live a certain age.
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In the first place, we're not entirely sure we've discovered the whole solar system. We just discovered a new planet further out than Pluto. Its name is Sedna, and now we think there may be another planet in our solar system even further out than Sedna. \n     In the second place, it is possible but unlikely that life, intelligent or otherwise, exists on any body in our solar system besides Earth, but scientists think that Europa probably has the greatest chance of supporting life of any body in our solar system besides Earth. That does not mean it is very probably that Europa has life--many scientists think that the probability of that is low. But it is still the most probable.
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I'm not after the points as much as I'm want to give my views on the matter.\nAliens... I believe there must be life somewhere in the Universe other than Earth, given that it is so big. However I don't believe for a moment we are going to have visitors from other planets. The green men thing is all bullsh*t to me. If there is some other form of life somewhere in the Universe (very far, I expect), I expect it must be microbiotic or something of that sort. And I don't believe the "end of the world" will come from the space either, that's plain stupidity. \nThere you go.\n\nET phone home!
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Absolutely not and I think it would be incredibly arrogant of us to think we are the only life in the entire universe, considering how many billions of planets, if not galaxies, there are.  There are more that can sustain life.
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For one thing, it would show that life isn't unique to our own planet,  that given the chance, life can and will evolve to intelligent beings that are capable of communication over vast distances.  Scientifically it would give us great insight into the evolution of life in the universe; we are not "alone" or particularly special.  I think it will have a tremendous impact on religion, particularly Christianity.  Unless the beings looked exactly like us, Christians will have to rethink the whole "we were made in God's image" thing.
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Just because Bible doesn't mention other humans prior to or alongside Adam and Eve does not mean other people didn't exist.\nIt makes sense for others to be there.  \nI know this opens a whole other can of worms but it is an interesting thought.
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With the nearly infinite number of stars out there, it is reasonable to expect that life has developed on another planet. However, we won't know for sure until we actually encounter that lifeform, and that may be a long way off.
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maybe god is expressed in different ways in other planets.  like other countries in the world express god in different ways.  so is jesus present in other planets or not?