best outcome from space exploration:

[AKIron]

Originally posted by kappa
would have to be proof of life on other planets... or life in other areas of the universe...

Perhaps then, man, realizing he is not alone in the universe, would toss aside religious books and realize they were not written by gods, but by his fellow man and thus not w/out sin...

yes, imagine a world with no religion... its easy if you try...




very ignorant post indeed iron... Im not talking about people.. im talking about religion and its effect on people... more exactly, the segregation of religion...

but thanks for the ignorant statment... ill just consider you stupid and unable to read ... much like you asking miko if hes accuseing skuzzy of supporting slavery...

You calling me stupid for pointing out your ignorance? I don't get it?

[kappa]

Damn klingons!!! its a bird of prey!!!

Raise shields!!

but captain, we dont have sheilds yet.!!

[kappa]

Originally posted by AKIron
You calling me stupid for pointing out your ignorance? I don't get it?

lol iron.. stop humping my leg...  

nowhere in my post is written people, person, or individual...  read with whatever eyes you wish...

[AKIron]

Stop making ridiculous statements kappa and I'll leave ya alone.

To paraphrase, you said the best outcome from space exploration would be the discovery of life on other planets. This would be good because man would realize he is not alone. You then make a very illogical leap that this discovery would somehow cause man to realize that his religious books were not from gods.

I'm inferring from that, that you mean man would then realize there is no God. I simply told you that many people that now believe in God also already believe in life on other planets even without proof. Therefore, your assumption is based on ignorance.

Then you get personal and call me stupid. Who's doing the humping here?

[kappa]

Originally posted by AKIron
Stop making ridiculous statements kappa and I'll leave ya alone.

To paraphrase, you said the best outcome from space exploration would be the discovery of life on other planets. This would be good because man would realize he is not alone. You then make a very illogical leap that this discovery would somehow cause man to realize that his religious books were not from gods.

I'm inferring from that, that you mean man would then realize there is no God. I simply told you that many people that now believe in God also already believe in life on other planets even without proof. Therefore, your assumption is based on ignorance.

Then you get personal and call me stupid. Who's doing the humping here?

ok Iron.. last post to you.. even after writting all that.. even after I clarify my position to you... even after... you still come with this, this absurdity...  did you forget this part of my post you quoted??  

So, maybe no religion was too much.. how about a new religion because present religion needs an enema...

does that part of my post in itself make you rethink what you typed?? Admittedly Im not a good writter, but I generaly feel i get my point across.. I just really dont know how you read into things like you do, sometimes.... 'no god' was never on my mind while writing any of this, almost joking, statments... nowhere did i mention people, persons, individuals, no gods, non-ET believeing people, or non-green men believers..  but clearly since I chimmed in w/ non-sense that you didnt write im humping your leg.... thanks for helping me realize..

And Iron.. you could have ask rather than call me ignorant.. might have gotten a better response..

[Sway]

Kappa, you always like it when I hump your leg though...

[AKIron]

Maybe you could explain how discovering life outside of our planet would "give religion an enema".

It seems to me that you think we're gonna meet some advanced race that's going to disprove all of our religious notions. Why you should think this is beyond me.

[Octavius]

Originally posted by AKIron
Maybe you could explain how discovering life outside of our planet would "give religion an enema".

It seems to me that you think we're gonna meet some advanced race that's going to disprove all of our religious notions. Why you should think this is beyond me.

I wouldn't say that exactly.  Finding life elsewhere would change things regardless of what it might be.  They could disprove some, but not all (sumbunal), religious notions.  

As to kappa's religious enema statement, I think it'd be great.  If the world's religions were a huge HD, a defrag surely wouldn't hurt.  However, voluntarily doing so would require an extraordinary amount of energy.  I mean, without going to any relative extremes, who wouldn't want to see sumbunal religious factions, fundamentalists, seperatists, whateverists, on the same page?  Some sort of common understanding, although difficult for some to comprehend, is not impossible... the benefits of which probably lie in some sci-fi book.

[kappa]

Originally posted by AKIron
Maybe you could explain how discovering life outside of our planet would "give religion an enema".

It seems to me that you think we're gonna meet some advanced race that's going to disprove all of our religious notions. Why you should think this is beyond me.

no worries.. thanks for being polite.. 8)

I dont mean to sound like we have to meet an advanced race.. Single celled organisms would be fine.. Any life or evidence thereof...

God made man and loved man above all others...  How could this be true?

According to the bible there was adam and eve and the garden of eden... all life originates from there...

How could baptist/methodist  or catholic/protestant veiw each others religion to be so false after realizing they themselfs didnt have it all right??

All life does not originate from mother earth our god's creation... therby given great testiment to the theroy or evolution.. Darwin's Origin of Species....

Just a few ways Iron.. Im sure I could ponder many more.. Not unlike, and possibly not without cause, the fear the religious community feels about humans genetically enginerring babies.. Any thing that forces people to question their wisdom, in my opinion, is a good thing.......

[AKIron]

I'll agree kappa that there are some religious folks that believe we are the center of the universe in God's eye and the most important beings in the Universe. I consider them to be, well, ignorant. Discovering life outside our planet may well rattle their beliefs. I don't think they are a majority.

My personal belief is that God created everything including time and space and that it is full of life and beyond our imagining.


Now, regarding engineering humans. Bad idea, at least until we understand a great deal more than we currently do.

[Saurdaukar]

Wholey poop, Skuzzy was right.

HTF do you go from impact on religion if life is found to leg humping?

What do I think the greatest outcome from space exploration has been?

Tang.

Yessindeedysir.

[Maniac]

best outcome from space exploration:

Unite mankind in a common goal.

[kappa]

Originally posted by AKIron
My personal belief is that God created everything including time and space and that it is full of life and beyond our imagining.

As is mine.. I'm almost positive..

[aztec]

It's all about oil.

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Maniac
Unite mankind in a common goal.

Best post yet.