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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by mbfg on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:03PM (#21230104)
Why would a position on athiesm have any negative bearing on whether the universe is teaming with life? Atheism would likely posit that finding life all over the place hints that it's a common natural process.
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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by api on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:53PM (#21230315)
People could also see it as evidence for a creator, e.g. that the universe is obviously fine tuned for life. Theism isn't scientifically testable or falsifiable, so science can't say much of anything about it.
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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by ksaj on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:03AM (#21230796)
Moving the goalpost doesn't prove much. Going from how special we are vis a vis Adam and Eve, to accepting life is actually everywhere and has been since well before Earth was a thing is itself a huge leap to make.
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Re:I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s by shigawire on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:33AM (#21233432)
Is it really different than any other retcon that's occurred in the last 500 years? At least in Christianity anything can be de-emphasized or treated as metaphor if it is inconvenient.
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