Discovery of intelligent alien life would be lethal to Abrahamic monotheism:
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My Bible-learnin' is inconsistent but is there a place where it says, straight out, "Nope, you guys are it?"
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No, doesn't say that, but the problem of aliens in cosmic scheme has been nagging people for a long time (going back to Donne & earlier).
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Or you conclude that non-human intelligent life is Satanic. Problem solved!
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This sounds way more insouciant than informed IMO.
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Unless they looked just like us. Which isn't likely.
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I have never thought the image-of-God thing was physical. We don't even look like each other at any interesting level of detail.
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I suspect dogs share our fallen state, because they clearly have a sense of sin. If so, "God's image" already has to include dogs.
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Didn't Bradbury write a story where the intelligent aliens simply never fell from grace?
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