…with the James Web Telescope looking for sources of artificial light to identify potential intelligent life, and the news this week of Perseverance searching for microbial life on Mars it feels like we are getting closer to a major discovery. But what - if anything - would it mean for the religions on Earth if life is proven to exist out there?

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Religion didn’t change when it went up against intelligent people on earth. Why do you think intelligence from space would make a difference? If anything they’ll use it as a way of validating their own beliefs.