Will the discovery of space aliens prove or disprove the existence of God?

LTC Ed Ross — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:41:32 -0400

The Pope doesn't believe it will disprove the existence of God. I suspect he's read my book.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/vatican-astronomer-says-alien-life-will-be-discovered-but-will-not-prove-or-disprove-god-126813/

Vatican Astronomer Says Alien Life Will Be Discovered, But Will Not Prove or Disprove God

The new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation has said that it is only a matter of time before alien life forms are discovered, which will pave the way to questions about God's relationship to intelligent beings outside our planet.

Response by CMSgt Mark Schubert made Jul 31 at 2015 12:49 PM

CMSgt Mark Schubert — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:49:35 -0400

your link didn't come thru -

Response by MSgt Curtis Ellis made Jul 31 at 2015 12:55 PM

MSgt Curtis Ellis — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:55:44 -0400

I think we would have to read their bibles first... ;)

Oh come on!!! You all know that was funny!!!

Response by SGT Jeremiah B. made Jul 31 at 2015 1:05 PM

SGT Jeremiah B. — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:05:14 -0400

Not at all. Our communications with them and what we learned would have the greatest theological implications. One would assume that if God exists, His presence would be identifiable in the cultures of all sentient life.

Response by CMSgt Mark Schubert made Jul 31 at 2015 1:08 PM

CMSgt Mark Schubert — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:08:20 -0400

If this is a "serious" question, then no - first of all, there is great speculation that earth's cousin (which is 11 million years away with today's technology and may not even be there when we get there) even exists or could support "human" life, but who cares - to me, there is a greater probability that "life" exists on some other planet that is not like earth and the "life" is not "human".
In ANY case, it has nothing to do with whether or not God exists - all of us will know this as a fact one day, but probably not while existing on this planet.
A better question might be - are you ready to find out if God exists?

Response by Maj Chris Nelson made Jul 31 at 2015 1:14 PM

Maj Chris Nelson — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:14:35 -0400

Unless you can prove that the aliens ARE God, you will only prove that there are other life forms, not that there is/is not a God.

Response by PO2 Brandon Boucher made Jul 31 at 2015 1:22 PM

PO2 Brandon Boucher — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:22:50 -0400

We only have to look to the stars to see that we are all Stardust. We are teh physical representation of the divine on this planet, whatever that means to you. According to some scholars God is a being full of Wrath and Vengeance, others believe that God is the embodiment of Love. There are 72 sacred names of God that predates any bible or Christian Dogma. The earth is over 3 million years old, to think that we were created on in the last 5,000 years seems uneducated and ignorant. To think we are alone in this galaxy, let alone the Universe is sheer folly. God/Universe/Source/Goddess/Allah/Isis it all refers to the same thing, the divine spark that unites all of us. If God turns out to be an advanced Alien civilization...that doesn't make it any less divine to us.

This could spark a huge debate, but I'll close to simply say, embrace your personal spirituality, not someone else's view of a dogmatic religion.

Response by PV2 Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 31 at 2015 1:30 PM

PV2 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:30:26 -0400

Has RP become the National Enquirer now? SMH

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Jul 31 at 2015 2:35 PM

CPT Jack Durish — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:35:23 -0400

Actually, I don't believe that proving the existence of intelligent life forms on other planets (or any life form on other planets) will affect the debate in any way. It will however greatly upset those who believe that God created the universe just for the amusement of his "pets" on this planet. Of far more interest to me will be "their" opinions about God. Will they have none, have some "alien" view of God, or generally agree with ours (after all, we have such a great variety, I suspect that one could find a similarity between theirs and ours)

Response by SGT Kevin Putala made Jul 31 at 2015 4:23 PM

SGT Kevin Putala — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:23:57 -0400

No, it will only prove that He created way more than we thought He did and prove that He is THE CREATOR of all things.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 31 at 2015 4:47 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:47:55 -0400

Hi, Lieutenant Colonel Ross.

I think we’ve come very close to proving the existence of alien life. Scientists announced in 1996 that the Allen Hills meteorite found in Antarctica in 1984 might contain fossils of Martian bacteria, based on observable carbonate globules. It might be a bit of a leap, but the idea of extraterrestrial life, albeit bacterial and long dead, isn’t a big one.

We can presume, then, that God created the environment for life to exist in some form throughout the universe, but created Earth to harbor life in His Image.

Response by Capt Richard I P. made Jul 31 at 2015 4:50 PM

Capt Richard I P. — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:50:23 -0400

I'm far more concerned that discovery of space aliens will lead to human annihilation. Competitive evolution does not bode well for intelligent beings meeting one another.

To the topic: meeting space aliens might challenge those that believe the bible is the whole and literal word of god.

Response by SPC Tyler Daniels made Jul 31 at 2015 5:55 PM

SPC Tyler Daniels — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:55:48 -0400

Something would have to first be proven before it could be disproven.

Response by SGT John Rauch made Jul 31 at 2015 6:11 PM

SGT John Rauch — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:11:04 -0400

no, logic says that there is a creator, something cant come from nothing.

Response by SSgt Charles Edwards made Jul 31 at 2015 8:58 PM

SSgt Charles Edwards — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:58:32 -0400

Honestly, I'm kinda hoping that aliens arrive and tell us those folks over on the History Channel had it right the whole time.

Response by SrA Matthew Knight made Aug 1 at 2015 5:42 AM

SrA Matthew Knight — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:42:59 -0400

All I know is if we find life else where we better not ask them about who their God is or talk about ours, they might get offended.

Realistically, it won't prove nor disprove a thing. No science can. The only way we can definitively prove/disprove a higher being is by either seeing or not seeing a deity when we die. I choose to believe there is a God but even I can't 'prove' his existence, I can only believe and try to help others understand. The finding of extra terrestrial life will certainly raise further questions but they will be questions on a long list that I hope to get to ask the big man himself one day.

Response by SFC John Elam made Sep 3 at 2015 1:29 PM

SFC John Elam — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:29:22 -0400

Space aliens. How about beings from another galaxy or solar system. As for the term God, we base this off what religious writers / translators has chosen for the name of a being they believe created us and demand we worship it. It is nothing more than a higher educated being or beings that possibly created or found us long ago and decided to observe or rule over us. A few of them used their technology to create miracles and create followers to write about them. It's possible some stayed behind, it's possible they are still watching us, it's possible they left and will come back later. Regardless, it is something with advanced technology capable of working with the matter that exist within our universe. We have reached levels in our evolution showing the same potential to achieve this same greatness to create. It's just a matter of time. As for proving God exist the answer will be no. What will be proven is advanced technological beings exist and we potentially have the ability to achieve what they already have in this universe and become their equal.

In the 20th century we wrote first and later achieve space travel. Since then we have achieved cloning. We are growing anatomical human parts of the body. Many other things were achieved. In the 21st century we are going to perform space travel within our solar system to our other planets. Eventually we will travel outside the solar system. If we find other early evolving beings on planets we might be consider like gods to them.

God, how it was defined, will not be found and does not exist. A more advance technological being of the time will be proven to have existed or possibly still exist using advance technology.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 6 at 2016 8:20 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:20:41 -0400

That information wouldn't prove or disprove the existence of a higher intelligence.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Jun 10 at 2019 2:27 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:27:54 -0400

Actually, I rather tend to agree with the Pope on that one...I've rather reached a conclusion that all races everywhere, in all planets, are, in fact, merely one piece of God...I've also read a good deal on theoretical aspects of dark matter/energy having been hypothesized as being the actual physical basis of God...look up a Wikipedia page on something called the flyby anomaly, it's been researched in depth by a physicist at Princeton Inst for Advanced Studies (IAS) quite seriously, I think you might find it quite thought provoking material on that whole line of thought, honest....