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Re:There Probably Have Been Aliens by jessaustin on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:50PM (#13464102)
If one must attempt to salvage the idea of divine creation in such desultory fashion, why not assume that the aliens are the intentional created creatures of the divine, and we are just the random evolutionary accidents?
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Re:There Probably Have Been Aliens by danbruc on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:56PM (#13464171)
That seems as weird as the other way round. Wouldn't it be the simplest explanation to just say God created life on various planets but didn't tell anyone about each other?
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Re:There Probably Have Been Aliens by jessaustin on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:46PM (#13464715)
Haha I wasn't seriously advocating such a bizarre aition. Rather I was encouraging a reconsideration of parent's proposal, which as you say is "as weird". Perhaps my encouragement was too obliquely ironical, as is often the case.
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Re:There Probably Have Been Aliens by gknoy on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:20PM (#13465038)
Today I learned that "aition" was not merely a typo, but rather a new (to me) word! (cool!)

Aition: a tale devised to explain the origin of a religious observance

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