Last year I read – I should say, heard, as it was an audiobook – a book by one of my favorite sci-fi authors, Robert J. Sawyer. The name of the novel was Calculating God. In it, Sawyer imagines humanity coming face-to-face with an alien species, and the aliens are completely taken aback when they learn to their amazement that the majority of Earth’s scientists don’t believe in a creator god. They, and one other alien species that makes its appearance later in the book, can’t fathom how intelligent beings can fail to accept a truth that is so self-evident to them. The author was playing a “what if” game in his novel by imagining a twist on the old 'aliens are amazed to see how primitive the beliefs of Earthers can be' story line. It all started from a thought experiment in which Sawyer imagined what would happen if the creationist proved to be correct in their assumption that God created the universe. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, the biggest push back against his story was from believers, notably creationists. Perhaps that’s because He tried to create a god whose attributes were those a reasonable person could believe in (for example, his god was neither omniscient nor infallible). He presented some interesting food for speculative thought, but as he’s happy being a writer and has no interest in becoming the next L. Ron Hubbard, he doesn’t pretend that his book is anything but a flight of fancy. A wonderful book for folks like me who enjoy playing with such ideas.

I think, like Sawyer, if there was/is a god, god is nothing like we've read about in any book.

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I would think the document would be all encompassing if it was written by men who were narrated to by "God". That's another flaw in it's writing. When they saw the moon or other planets in the sky, I wonder what they thought they were. Is there ANYTHING in the bible that speaks about something that humans knew nothing about back then that we actually have evidence of now? Would that be too subjective like a Nostradamus prediction?

Aliens meaning alienated nations on earth? Or aliens in the sky? Just asking... ild like to read that.

Written when the world was flat ..when speculating it may be as spherical as our closest neighbor could get you stoned…

The bible does not consider life on other planets. When the myths that make up the bible were written down, planets were lights in the sky, not bodies of comparable size to our own world. The bible and most churches solidified their thinking hundreds of years ago, while serious discussions of life on other planets mostly happened in my lifetime.

You should read some of the stuff coming from those crazy people from Ancient Aliens. They connect some of the Jewish prophets to alien technology. It’s far fetched, of course. As for other planets, my friends mpression is that they were unaware.

I think the discovery of intelligent extraterrestial life would be handled by theologians just like it was last time, when they discovered the New World. "Let's convert them and then kill them for their valuables."

Just heard Kennedy live on MTP Daily on MSNBC. What an idiot! Stupid Man! We are going to have a shutdown. Extraterrestrial life out there-Louisiana should send him o next space shuttle.

If an advanced alien civilization landed here with the exact same mythos of ANY of our religions, that, my friends, would sincerely bring me pause. I admit i find the likelihood of that happening remote, to say the least.
If they came with the concept of a "creator-being", that too, would bring me pause, but not nearly on the level of the previous scenario.
All of that being said, I find no reasonable proof that this planet has been visited by E.T.'s up until now. No Alien Architects, no "Lizard-Beings", no BEM's. But, if they did come a'callin' it would be an amazing thing, my friends. The questions & answers that would be provided just by their very appearance would leave scientists enough to work on for decades, let alone any knowledge or advanced tech they may have!

Didn't the Bible just place planets in with stars. I don't think the folks writing the Bible had an idea of what a planet was. On the 4th day god placed the sun, moon and stars into the firmament to provide light. No mention of planets. Venus, the morning and evening star was spoken of as Lucifer.
I'm still hoping for life on either mars or a moon of Jupiter. and I agree it would cause them a real problem. Just some one-celled life, that's all. Something that everything else could evolve from.

What an excellent question!

"and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind."

If stars are the size of figs, planets will fall from the sky like snowflakes.

I don't believe the bible mentions any other planets, but Earth.

Hopefully this picture is legible, in short, the sun and moon are in the sky and above that is water, because obviously that is where rain comes from. This was what a lot of iron aged folk assumed, it was a good guess but a little wrong.