I enjoy reading the technology and space sections of most news agencies. Something that always makes me laugh is the comments made about the discoveries of exoplanets some of which are so out there, I can't help but feel like my IQ is being dropped just for reading them. I am confounded by the notion that anybody would be upset about finding life on other planets, especially intelligent life. Whatever belief system you happen to fall into, it seems to me that such a discovery would only work to prove the brilliance of any notion. Whether you believe that an almighty being created everything or that all this was created by a single random event, I don't see how it matters.
If an almighty being both omnipotent and omniscient created everything, is it so outrageous to think that we can't even hope to be able to even conceive the purpose of such a being? Reading the comments it sounds like a lot of people have the similar mindset of a child who wishes he/she was an only child but was born into a large family. I don't see how being one of many makes one any less valuable than being the only one. I see that diversity as a further demonstration of the magnificence of an almighty being.
I don't indentify as a religious person and that being said, I don't see how such a finding disproves the existence of an almighty being. It might disprove some religious believes but those are institutions of humanity and therefore very prone to mistakes and misunderstandings. I just cannot grasp how anybody can claim with certainty anything and so blatantly ignore the evidence in front of them. I just don't understand how anybody could be so willingly ignorant.
You can believe in an almighty being and any of its number of religious figures without completely ignoring the values of logic and reason. I don't see a black and white distinction between faith and logic, I see shades of gray. True, accepting some of these things might go against your religion but religion is an institution of humanity and therefore flawed like humanity. We all make mistakes and just because most religions are founded with good intentions it doesn't free them of their mistakes or make them above them.
If an almighty being both omnipotent and omniscient created everything, is it so outrageous to think that we can't even hope to be able to even conceive the purpose of such a being? Reading the comments it sounds like a lot of people have the similar mindset of a child who wishes he/she was an only child but was born into a large family. I don't see how being one of many makes one any less valuable than being the only one. I see that diversity as a further demonstration of the magnificence of an almighty being.
I don't indentify as a religious person and that being said, I don't see how such a finding disproves the existence of an almighty being. It might disprove some religious believes but those are institutions of humanity and therefore very prone to mistakes and misunderstandings. I just cannot grasp how anybody can claim with certainty anything and so blatantly ignore the evidence in front of them. I just don't understand how anybody could be so willingly ignorant.
You can believe in an almighty being and any of its number of religious figures without completely ignoring the values of logic and reason. I don't see a black and white distinction between faith and logic, I see shades of gray. True, accepting some of these things might go against your religion but religion is an institution of humanity and therefore flawed like humanity. We all make mistakes and just because most religions are founded with good intentions it doesn't free them of their mistakes or make them above them.