Reply #19: Well thinking that life has only emerged on Earth over the course

[nadinbrzezinski]

of 13.5 B years has its own charm

Believing that we are alone is also religion in its own way

It is a particular type of hubris

Now some in the UFO community are engaged in a form of religion, but so are the nothing to see here and life is exclusive to Earth crowd

I'll even offer it

And man was created in the image of god

genesis one

And man was created in the image of the gods

genesis Two

In my mind believing that life emerged in more than one world is not a contradiction in terms

Neither is to believe that life has a tendency to develop curious beings... after all we are

And as is, in my lifetime, due to the deep space array, we will find out whether extrasolar objects, which ten years ago were only theoretical, might support carbon based life. Revelatory religions will have a crisis at that point.