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>Why are we here? What do you mean by this?
by 2845197541 9y ago
>Why are we here?
What do you mean by this?
- ExactoKnight 9y agoFinding the existence of life on another planet holds MAJOR implications for many organized and unorganized religions. It would tell us whether abiogenesis and life is common, or something truly unique. So while discovering life on another planet wouldn't answer exactly "why we are here", it would go a hell of a long way in shaping our answers to that question.
- 2845197541 9y agoI apologize for being semantic, but I think that would answer the 'how' rather than the 'why.' I understand what you're saying though. As for the religious, well... I believe they will absolutely find a way for there not to be any major implications. New findings will be absorbed into the obfuscatory practice of apologetics.
- ExactoKnight 9y agoYeah, I really used the first questions as a way to give importance to how big the "Are we alone?" question is on the scale of humanity. That is to say, that arguably "Why are we here" is the only question of more significance than "Are we alone?" If this telescope can answer the second most important question to humanity, that's pretty good.
- throwawayjaja1 9y agoAlready been done, see CS Lewis
- meric 9y agoI can't believe you like the idea of discovering alien life so you can use the discovery to troll religions. Surely there's other reasons why this is exciting?!
- JCharante 9y agoI always thought the big deal of finding life on other planets would be to deal a major blow to creationism.
- ExactoKnight 9y agoEven a negative finding holds important implications: if we successfully survey all of the exoplanets within 100 to 1000 light years and find no life or anything even close being habitable for humans, then it would gravely inform us of the ways in which we must preserve the Earth that we have.
- jessaustin 9y ago...and also it would be cited by creationists as proof that they're right.