On Sat, Mar 31, 2012, at 01:02 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
If you are a Mitt Romney-class Mormon, you may pass directly on to Kolub; the issue of intelligent life is obviously of no meaning to you. au contraire, asking if there is intelligent life elsewhere is a meaningless question only because, if you are a "Mitt Romney-class Mormon," you 'know' there is intelligent life elsewhere - a large, but unknown, number of populated worlds, and that many have come and gone before ours and many will come to be after ours is long gone. There is speculation on the physical form of the life on those other worlds - as the only requirement to be 'created in God's image' is not physical - it is the 'spirito-intellect something' ( a concept very much like purusa in Vedic - and later Buddhist - philosophy) that is fundamental for 'godly imageness.' When disparaging others' beliefs, or rejecting those of our own childhood/upbringing, one should always recognize that what is taught in 'Sunday School' is not theology. dave west
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