Is It The Same There - In The Delta Quadrant

[Bazile]

Do you think that the inhabitants on other worlds , suffer from the cultural and religous differences that we on earth do ( assuming that they have what we know as religion and cultures ) ?

Or has their ' god' created them to skip around in fields of daises most of the day

[Zeuhl]

According to one instalment of Star Trek, the black-and-white people had a long standing conflict with the white-and-black people.

What religion are Klingons; Left-Footers or Right-Footers?

[sandyRoe]

It's sheep that stand around in fields all day.
It was the God given gifts of greed and ambition that moved us from living in caves to becoming masters of all we survey.

[Zeuhl]

indeed sandy

i expect the extra terrestrials will also have gods made in their own image

[emmie]

what makes you think they grow anything let alone daisies.

[cupid04]

I agree with Sandy. Never understood why God gets all the blame. It's mans choice to do good or evil. And most of the worlds problems are mainly to do with mans greed.

[Bazile]

The trouble is god gave man free will - perhaps that was a mistake

[emmie]

he might have given him free will, but there are plenty who wish to take it from him - organised religion by any other name

[vulcan42]

If you create something in it's entirety and part of it goes wrong, are you not responsible?

[naomi24]

Come on Bazile, there's only one God - you know that. Personally, I think Jesus has done the rounds of all the inhabited planets. Not the best job, but someone has to do it. ;o)

[wolf63]

Santa gave God his sleigh so that he can zoom around all the planets. He doesn't go to Ferenginar - they tried to steal his reindeer last time that he was stupid enough to stop off there.

[Old_Geezer]

Surely ' god' would only have created them to skip around in fields of daises most of the day if their role was to provide sustenance for a 'greater' species who are further up the food chain ?

[emmie]

a cheery thought.

[pugwashjw]

The Bible DOES give an answer to the question...ARE WE ALONE....
WE ARE...
(1 Peter 3:18) For Christ died once for all time for sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.

IF there were aliens...others out there, they too would have to be part of creation....by our SINGLE CREATING GOD, JEHOVAH...

And Jesus is his son.....and as the scripture states, he died ONCE...FOR ALL TIME...

So we are alone....and this makes US the start of the settling of space...and it is so big we HAVE TO LIVE FOREVER, with no death, to achieve it.

Just because there is the possibility of billions of planets out there that MAY be liveable, does not mean they already have life...

[SirOracle]

To Captain Pugwash "Just because there is the possibility of billions of planets out there that MAY be liveable,does not mean they already have life..."

It does not mean that they DON'T have life.

Maybe they will take up a fair bit of your magical figure of 144,000,or even all
of it. Then that's you well and truly stuffed.

[birdie1971]

I think that there is a "hole" in every human's consciousness. That "hole" (for what of a better description) is the unknown and/or the unknowable. The difference between a theist and a rationalist/atheist is that the theist dishonestly fills that "hole" with tall tales of the divine without ever offering any proof for their belief while the atheist/rationalist honestly says, "I don't yet know". The atheist can live with the unknown. The theist cannot. The theist feels an irresistible urge to fill their particular "hole" with whatever fantasy most appeals to them.

There are a myriad of things we don't yet understand. That does give anyone licence to fill that "hole" with fantastic, unprovable, fairy tales with no foundation and then attempt pass that fantasy off as some kind of "truth".

With regards to (theoretical) lifeforms living on other planets, no one can say what these entities 'believe'. The most honest answer to this question is, I don't yet know.

[birdie1971]

pugwashjw - "... The Bible DOES give an answer to the question...ARE WE ALONE.... WE ARE... "

The Bible does no such thing. You're either grossly mistaken or you are a liar. The Bible has nothing whatsoever to say about the existence of extraterrestrial life. The passage you quoted (1 Peter 3:18) is referring specifically to Jesus and to human beings upon this planet. There is no indication, either explicit or implicit, that can be attributed to the existence of extraterrestrial life in that passage of any other.

[birdie1971]

* or any other *

[Buenchico]

Does it actually matter what the Bible says anyway? As a work of fiction, it has no more validitity than 'Noddy Goes to Toytown'.