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The discovery of even the most base simple lifeform outside Earth would be forever world-changing. Society, religion, mass institutions would be forced to reco
by staplers 3y ago
The discovery of even the most base simple lifeform outside Earth would be forever world-changing.
Society, religion, mass institutions would be forced to reconcile with this fact.
I don't think it's necessarily about money.
- NateEag 3y agoWhat do you think would change about religions? The only one I know well is evangelical Christianity, having been raised in it. I've read through the Protestant Bible several times, and I'm not aware of anything in it that changes meaningfully if there's other life forms in the universe.
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- martin-t 3y agoYou overestimate people. Most wouldn't care at all, a few would say that's cool and move on. Religious people would just say their favorite god created those too. Unless the aliens were more advanced than us, nothing would change.
- staplers 3y agoIn the short term yes. The church accepted Galileo's heliocentric theory at first because it helped fix their calendars, later they realized what it truly meant as the general public started connecting the dots.
- cwillu 3y agoThe struggle with the religious types is forever that they can't be pinned down in the details: it's not that new information can't be assimilated because it conflicts with doctrine, it's that doctrine, aside from a few very core concepts, is extremely fluid and will seamlessly flow and change to admit the conflicting information without affecting anything of importance.
- staplers 3y agoI never said religion would disappear