[Shrike]

I remember the last time they went on about Martian bacteria.

[Kazan]

they weren't using as good of testing practicies and techniques

[CP5670]

Nah; what if they could combine combustible chemicals as a heat source within their bodies or something? I guess what you're looking for here - a definition of 'intelligence' is so rooted in human experience that we can't comprehend other forms of intelligence. I mean, people would ask how anything could be intelligent in a way other than we are, and set impossible tests for it.

You could say that, but what then is your generalized definition of intelligence? (aside from gaining knowledge about the universe in general, which is the usual definition)

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Kazan
they weren't using as good of testing practicies and techniques

So?  It wasn't really earth-shattering then, and it's not earth-shattering now.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by CP5670


well I guess to be classified as intelligent they need technology, which starts from fire, but how would these microbes create a fire?

 

That depends on your definition of 'technology' - it may be thatr (for example) a microbe conciously develops  telekinetic powers that negate the use of transport, etc..... odds are that any aliens we encounter will have a completely different form of perception of the universe, yadayadayada.

[demon442]

*whips out his probability pipe**packs in the article**whips out his green flame torch lighter**takes giant hit*

[Nico]

MWAHAHAHAHA!
agian?
it's not the first time they find a "martian" asteroid with bacteries on it. they'll have to apologize again very soon

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Kazan
Falwellities

As an interesting side note, the official position of the main Christian bodies does not deny entirely that extraterrestrial life may exist. It's merely given qualification. The Vatican definitions are as follows:

If extraterrestrial life exists, it must be either:

A. Living and intelligent but without a soul, and thus lesser than human beings.

B. Existing in a state of Pre-Fall prefection, since they were never tempted by the Serpent and inhabit a paradise. In this situation, humans should avoid contact with them because we are tainted and should not by association taint them.

C. Creations of the devil meant to tempt humans from the rightful path of God. In this situation they should be avoided because they are a temptation, etc etc.

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Fairly interesting, IMO - especially the way in which the Church seeks to restrict contact between hypothetical species.

[Kazan]

Originally posted by Shrike
So?  It wasn't really earth-shattering then, and it's not earth-shattering now.

i was talking about your "last time"

[Kazan]

hey kellan, you know what that is - a lot of neurotheotically induced bull****ting

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Kellan
Fairly interesting, IMO - especially the way in which the Church seeks to restrict contact between hypothetical species.

That's because they know what is out there...

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Kazan
hey kellan, you know what that is - a lot of neurotheotically induced bull****ting

By whom? Them or me?

[Kazan]

by them

[Kellan]

Oh, that's okay then.

And yes, they're trying to cover their bases and show that their religion 'accounts' for everything that God created and cannot be wrong, etc etc. Which just proves how nervous they are.

[CP5670]

If humans encounter extraterrestrial intelligent life within our lifetime, it will be very interesting to see how these churches respond to it.

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by CP5670
If humans encounter extraterrestrial intelligent life within our lifetime, it will be very interesting to see how these churches respond to it.

They'll try to convert them.  ^^;

[Zeronet]

God created them as well.

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Zeronet
God created them as well.

Yes, that's how it goes. I know you know.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Edit: Of course that might[/i] be so, but you have no proof.

[CP5670]

God created them as well.

That is fine (for now); what is not fine is saying that humans are the "superior species" or something.

[Bobboau]

then next day there will be a space race develop between the christians, jews, and muslums, christians will win and darken the skys with a fleet of "arcs" filled with merc... I mean misonaries.


I'm still waiting for direct from mars evedence, it won't be much longer, if some random point on the planet was so heavily populated by bacteria that when hit by a meteor there were enough to survive (or the fosils of them) all the way to earth,
then the planet should be over run with this stuf
if there was once life there I would think it is still there, as once life starts it is very hard to get rid of it