Manorfire

Interesting responses...perhaps nothing can disprove God conclusively, as suggested. So, would the discovery of God negate ET?

If aliens landed here, that would presumably mean they were massively more technologically advanced than we are. They could possess knowledge of things that we have never even imagined. If only a few landed on Earth, they would most certainly have the upper hand and our fear might keep us from spouting off too much about anything....though, I doubt we would wait to see what they wanted.

IMO our beliefs would suddenly seem quite naive and provincial...the most arrogant of us would be cowed into silence. The aliens would represent the depth of our ignorance about everything and not only would our religious beliefs be shaken, but so would our scientific understandings of the universe. Of course, there will be a contingent of people who will call it a hoax or a conspiracy, while others who would see aliens shaking hands with Bush on the 11:00 news and say "Meh"?

If these aliens were by and large biologically identical to humans in body shape, yet came from a planet with a much different environment, it could be a compelling argument for a creator of some kind. Otherwise, if they were giant blobs of goo, for example, religions would have to reinterpret what resembling "God's image" means.

It could also be argued to support the "God was a spaceman" theory - maybe the aliens seeded this and other planets with life umpteen-jillion years ago, and now they want to see how we turned out. Further, if they said "We have watched your species for 3,000 years" and we have digital film of Jesus, Budda and Mohammed and interviews with their followers, then that would have an impact. Then, would we go to war on who created the aliens?

If aliens landed would they be met with religious spokespeople demonising them, saying that they were of the devil, through anonymous press statements and not to the scary alien faces. For some, I'm sure there wouldn't be a "fire and brimstone" talk for the heathen aliens.

In the future, if we landed on another planet and found intelligent life we'd send missionaries in a hot minute. But only if that life was clearly more primitive than ours.

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