So I was reading some funny alien stories the past week and had a thought.
So lets say aliens showed up, revealed all about their superior culture built on tech and have homes far greater than ours. If or when this happens, where does this leave religion? The same religion that declares everything is created by god and yet aliens clearly prove this is not true.
So what do you think would happen to religion if aliens prove it's some made up thing by humans?
I wouldn't say aliens existing necessarily disproves most religions at all. (Supposing we buy into that God created us. God also created them. Or if we believe that God created evolution then God also created other planets with different circumstances where evolution also held true resulting in different beings.)
Though honestly if aliens showed up, I'd be extremely worried. Humans aren't exactly great with this whole being nice to those who are different thing. So most humans would probably have either one of two reactions:
1- Run!
2- Shoot them!
I think option 2 is what most Americans would pick. And supposing any species is advanced enough for faster than light travel (which would be necessary to reach us ), human fire power is likely going to have the same effect as flinging pebbles at a tank. (I mean unless of course they have this absurd weakness to lead in which case humans will very likely completely and utterly eradicate them. I mean we show no regard for utterly wrecking each other's life... why would we suddenly show compassion for a completely foreign life form?)
Supposing we managed not to get obliterated (or in the .0001% chance our weapons got criticals/exploited elemental weaknesses and could obliterate them, but we didn't)... And they proved religion was fake. I think the reactions would be highly mixed.
A lot of people probably wouldn't care, they'd still keep right on believing anyway. They need a God to cling to. (Some might claim the aliens are wrong/liars and are trying to deceive us or are beings of the devil or something.) Others might be like: "HAH, told you". Others still would probably be like: "meh, life goes on."
Just because aliens show up doesn't really mean that all religion is false, it could just mean that god has done what he did on earth elsewhere in the universe.
This is why i'm SOOOOOOO glad I don't believe in God!
If you believe in God, and you believe he made everything, why cannot it not just be everything on Earth? Why everything in the whole Universe?
Many religions around the world believe in different Gods from each other, yet you all believe your God is the true God, so why would meeting Aliens make any difference to your belief in your Religion?????
Aliens do exist, therefore it should already make you question about God.
And if there was a single God that created the entire Universe which comprises of us, and a more superior Alien race, then the reason they are more superior is because we were his first attempt and he failed and then he succeeded with the Alien race and therefore, as evidence already indicates, he left us to ourselves and joined his successfully advanced race, because we were his failure!
Is this a debate on aliens and their impact on religion, or on the validity of religion itself? I can't even tell anymore.
VirusZero makes a lot of good points. If you don't believe in God anyway, aliens appearing wouldn't matter. If you do believe in God, you are doing so based on faith and nothing else and so aliens wouldn't change anything. You'd still believe, whether through blind faith or through forced reasoning.
Many believe in God because the alternative is nothingness after death.
There's a show based on a theory of the same name called "Ancient Aliens" which doesn't exactly contradict the idea of the big bang or many stories described in religious texts (such as Adam and Eve and the birth of Christ). Be wary, it does present more 'what if' scenarios than actual scientific evidence but it is quite interesting to watch and at least presents a plausible (though sometimes very far-fetched) explanation for various phenomena throughout history.
A lot of people still won't believe aliens are real even if they are proven to be real, so a lot of people still believe in religion. Some people believe in Religion for different reasons like being part of a club or clan of people who share similar interest like studying the bible.
I think it is fair, because they are ignorant of the fact that the universe is so vast that we can't be the only life forms out there, regardless of whether we are more superior or not. Life is life and therefore anything not growing on Earth is alien.
How can anyone claim aliens do not exist somewhere in the universe?
With so many experiments like the moon landing, mars landing, rocket launches, etc, aliens might be created by humans from earth from bacteria, bugs, animals and other things stuck on a spacecraft and rockets which survive space, the moon and mars landing, so there is a chance that aliens might be man made if aliens exist which make them not alien because they came from earth by hitching a ride on a rocket.
There is no proof that UFO and aliens exists, but the US government made flying saucer like airplanes, and the German tried to create a super race with science . The Super race would most likely be used to fly aircrafts like flying saucers which maybe too hard, and fast for most human being to fly. Aliens might be used for hiding secret experiments which are not public knowledge yet.
Don't know about you, but I rather live in a world with one or none almighty beings. Look at our world, no real proof there is a god(s) and yet we go to war in their name.
What do you think people do if there are many gods and someone disrespects them?
