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Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:51AM (#19807288)
> how would the major organised religions cope with the revelation (pun intended) that there was life that originated off of Earth/outside of the garden of eden?

The major religions have already shown how they deal with evidence of outside of the garden of Eden. Several don't care, because the garden isn't part of their belief system to start with, and most of the rest have no problem with it (because they don't view the garden as literal), and the remainder just dismiss the evidence and distrust the entire field of science associated with it.

I don't think expanding that to off Earth is likely to change a thing about those responses, though the details of exactly which groups have each response might be a little different (though I suspect not much.)

Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by bn0 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:39AM (#19808365)
Expanding on this idea, it is unlikely that another inconsistency between a belief system and reality is going to change a believers mind when there are so many inconsistencies (in every belief system) explained away already. This is the nature of belief - it persists despite all evidence to the contrary, because it is belief, not reason. E.g. belief in flat earth persists, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Re:UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, b... by oldway on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:06PM (#19811450)
I know most people on hackernews think this but how do you categorize the following

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQrT84kjc4