Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mvp@jack.sns.com (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Don't mean to be rude, but..... Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 03:21:37 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Systems'n'Software Lines: 26 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lindborg@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg) writes: > I find it difficult to imagine a god that would create such a huge >cosmos with billions of universes and suns and planets and then proceed >to inhabit only our relatively insignificant planet with life. > I'm much more apt to believe there are other life forms out there >somewhere, intelligent or not. What does this have to do with disproving Christianity? I've heard some people say that if life is discovered on other planets, that this will somehow disprove Christianity. (I've also heard people say that if we visit a bunch of planets and find no life, it will prove that life on Earth is just a cosmic accident. They want it both ways, you see...) But the Bible doesn't say that there isn't life on other planets. It doesn't say that there is, either. So whichever way it turns out is irrelevant as far as proving or disproving Christianity goes. C. S. Lewis wrote a very interesting essay on the subject; I believe it's in "God in the Dock." Recommended. (But then, anything by Lewis is recommended.) -- Caution: Thermostellar device. Mike Van Pelt Handle with care. Headland Technology Do not expose to first-semester (was: Video Seven) Philosophy students. ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp