Also, I don't believe in "life on other planets", per se; but let's just say hypothetically there was.
In that case, they would all be behind us technologically, as the Earth was created first, before even our Sun was, let alone the other galaxies.
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No Bible, not even King James, says that earth was created before sun. First, let there be light, then God created everything.
Wait, wait wait... Earth was created before Sol? Uh, no. It wasn't. It was created around the same time, however, Sol was created before Earth.
Assuming that the Bible's version of creation is correct in that Human life was created 6,000 years ago and assuming there is intelligent life out there, your little brain is forgetting that different species handle situations differently and therefore develop differently. On top of that little things like the fall of Rome and the Catholic religion has set us far behind in our advancement. If a mirror world of Earth existed where Rome never fell and the ideals of Plato were favored over the Catholic religion, those Humans would most likely end up far more advanced in the 21st century than we are.
What papabear said.
So, you don´t believe it in a metaphisical sense, but you have proofs of something that science has denied categorically?, alternative bizarro universe.
In that case, they would all be behind us technologically, as the Earth was created first the last thing god made. Therefore other civilizations should be older. By less than one day, and you do know what a difference that part of a day would make. We wouldn't have anything that they invented at this moment, only their technology of a few hours ago.
"Also, I don't believe in "life on other planets", per se; but let's just say hypothetically there was."
Moronic statement. Technological advancement is closely tied to the environment of the people. In a harsh environment, technology advances more quickly as people struggle to survive in that environment. In a mild environment, it is simply not necessary to develop technology. Why invent the plow when there is abundant food growing year-round on trees?not the oldest culture on the planet, yet it became the most technologically advanced because the environmental conditions required it.
Another planet could easily be more advanced it the environmental conditions there demanded a faster technological progression for survival.
You don't "believe" in life on other planets? I'm sorry to break this to you but your belief has nothing to do with the reality of things. Really, you should not "believe" in life on other planets because your god didnt supposedly create any other life and therefore the point is moot. If there is, however, life on another planet [I for one thing that there has to be], then it is very likely that your bible is an incomplete account of your god's creation or that your god does not exist at all. I prefer the latter.
Also, I don't believe in "life on other planets", per se; but let's just say hypothetically there was. In that case, they would all be behind us technologically...
Why? If there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it could be more advanced, less advanced, just as advanced as we are, or so different from us that you can't compare the two.
...as the Earth was created first, before even our Sun was, let alone the other galaxies.
Oh, right, I forgot. You're the one who thinks that an English king's 400-year-old translation of an ancient Latin text which was itself a translation of an earlier text written in Hebrew by primitive tribesmen 2,000 years ago is completely true, even when it conflicts with what is true.
Here's a KJV Bible, AV1611VET. Now go masturbate with it.
Do Aliens exist?
If they DO exist (and WE do, so there’s no reason to think that others shouldn’t) we have got to deduce, from the sheer number of potential life-giving suns in the universe, that alien life has got to abundant, only living so far away as to be undetectable. If (to quote the Drake Equation), just the smallest fraction of these suns had planets, and just the smallest fraction of these planets where capable of possessing life, and just a rare few of these planets actually held any viable life, and intelligent life, as described above, existed in just a tiny percent of THESE planets, there would currently be approximately for the sake of argument much more than one intelligent civilisation per galaxy = >100 billion.
So with ALL these souls, and if they were sentient, intelligent, self-aware beings in possession of full consciousness as defined above, they would surely be defined as having souls, too. God would have a heck of a time dealing with all this creation of (and for) souls. Even for an omnipotent being.
Where do these souls go? Heaven and hell like us? Or are there different heavens for different intelligent beings? One heaven per species? If there really was intelligent life on other planets, God would not have the time to care that much about just one planet. Even with infinite patience, there would simply be too much going on to give divine devotion, as we interpret it, to humanity, let alone each individual sentient being in the universe.
On the other hand, maybe aliens don’t exist. In that case, why make such an unimaginably massive cosmos just for the habitation of one relatively small planet? Why create so much matter such an unfeasible quantity of stuff’, just for us? There’s just no reason, at all, why any creator would do that. If there is no such thing as extraterrestrial intelligence, then there can’t really be a God. The entire universe just happened’.
Either that, or the universe is SO packed that God doesn’t (can’t) care about us that much.
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