Iamverysmart atheists understanding the nuances of religion and faith being an inherently irrational yet human response to existential dread challenge (impossible)
The post is actually by a theist that believes in aliens, and wants others to do so too
human response to existential dread
I realize this was likely not intended, but you’ve ironically removed most of the nuance in why religions came to exist in this statement lol.
Yeah like that’s exactly what the folks I know think. There’s nothing, and it sucks, but we don’t need religion as copium.
So…to be clear you think we don’t know religion is an irrational response to existential dread? Cause…I have a bridge to sell you.
That why I don’t believe in Bird
A lot of Christians will say no to believing in Aliens but because they believe God created humans and gave us the universe.
Or in a similar vain, because aliens aren’t mentioned in the Bible they don’t think they are real.
Does the Bible mention Mario kart
I’m pretty sure rainbow road is in there once or twice
I’m not at all saying this is how I feel.
I was raised a Christian and considered myself one until I reached the age of reason. So I have some insight into how they think.
It’s funny how a lot of kids learn Santa isn’t real but keep believing in God. Maybe because learning God isn’t real is significantly more painful to the soul so they refuse to consider it.
Interesting logic or backstory?
My experience with random processes: on large scales, things either happen 0 times or many times. So I find the idea that life exists in only one place pretty implausible.
That’s the rule for astronomy. If it happens once, it always happens; we just haven’t seen it yet
Define life
Here I googled it for you
It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction.
If you’re gonna be on lemmy you should really learn basic definitions or at least learn how to look them up. Then you should go back to your high school and burn it down (without anyone inside) because it completely failed you.
By that definition, the first life on earth was not alive the first 1 billion years or so, until the complex process of reproduction was invented. Heck, life doesn’t even have to be mobile, can be fused to a rock, even more so than moss or a stromatolith. Metabolism and maybe reaction to stimuli are imo the only real requirements.
you may define life however you like; the thing I said still makes sense regardless of definition (0 or many)
I haven’t met or seen any of you… Man, the bots are really good at shitposting.
I swear this post is straight from 9gag. It feels like it was made 15 years ago…
15 years ago it was mostly lolcats and rage comics.
Fffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
Pretty sure 15 years ago was like…1998
Me too buddy, me too.
mother fuck it’s so fucking deep though fuck
Maybe god wasn’t capable of creating aliens…
In my younger years I tried to make sense of the ‘God created humans’ thing by envisioning lots of aliens species with lots of gods, each catering for their own pets. Then I wondered if these gods would compete over who had the best pet, or would go to war with each other.
God is all powerful, but only up to and limited too creating one sentient life form
Got sidetracked by another project
I don’t think sentient is the word you’re looking for, as animals have sentience.
It was a little bit on purpose TBH, it leaves some room for though, and broadens the scope or definition of alien life.
We already know organic compounds can survive in space on astroids and comets, and we know these compounds can survive impact with planetary bodies.
What’s to say these same comets have not impacted other planetary bodies in our galaxy, or have traveled between galaxies in our Universe.
Timescales would make it impossible to know if two species on two planetary bodies would evolve at the same time.
Maybe God created the speed of light to keep players region-locked.
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Tower of babel? Being able to communicate with each other? That’s gay. I want to watch them kill each other - God
Well I’ve never seen air. Nor oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, the list goes on and on. I’ve never seen Ukraine, but I do believe there is some awful shit going on over there.
If you’ve seen that blue-ness in the sky you’ve seen air.
We can weigh all of those gases. We can also blow them up. We can also look at emissions spectrums. There’s a lot of ways to test gases. That’s why we know they exist.
As for Ukraine… People have been there. There are pictures and videos. Thousands of years of history.
I’m not sure if you’re joking or not because I’ve seen people with similar arguments.
If you are not sure if I’m joking, I’m giving you permission to assume that in fact I am joking.
Instagram reels have made it impossible for me to tell when people are joking haha. No matter how ridiculous the position, someone on there will have it.
I’m not using (being used by) any meta products at this time.
Yup, I deleted all of mine. Trash company.
But you’ve certainly directly interacted with all of them in some form or another.
Yes, I have Ukrainian neighbors.
Why won’t you get the vaccine? “Because idk what’s in it.” Why did you get Chinese dick and hair pills? “Because I NEED it!”
“Was your burger tasty?”
Trump: Look at me, look at me!
People worship all kinds of concepts that they’ve never seen.
Logic in religion? That’s your first mistake there.
What is a category error? I’ll try Basic Philosophy again for 400 Alex.
The concept of alien is inside our finite comprehension and logic. That is, if Earth is a habitable planet, and it is habituated, then there are possibilities of other habitable planets. If that so, then It’s science’s job to prove the existence of other habituated planets( eventually alien). But, maintaing this vast universe is believed to be done by an Omnipotent being/entity called God, I guess people developed this way of thinking by their conscience and comprehension. So far, science hasn’t been able to explain many cosmic events, why those happen, how they happen etc. But the melody, the harmony that lies in those events, even science sometimes has to say that those kinds of events can only be happen with the presence of an Omnipotent, conscious entity/being. Science and Religion are a total different thing. One is based on fact and the other is based on faith. Both have different psychological wiring on the mind thus people think differently towards these 2 subjects. Just let it as it be and laugh at this meme. Your faith or fact is unharmed. Don’t worry.🤝🫂
“But the melody, the harmony that lies in those events, even science sometimes has to say that those kinds of events can only be happen with the presence of an Omnipotent, conscious entity/being.”
No. Scientists will collectively say “we don’t know” and continue research and asking questions. Modern scientists don’t chalk it up to God. This isn’t the 1600s.
Not knowing something isn’t the fault of science. Science naturally researches, digs up what it doesn’t know and then proposes an answer/explanation. But it doesn’t mean that it allies with the concept of religion. This loop will end up somewhere like: “If you know something, then you don’t have to believe it anymore. Because… Well, you know it now.” This kind of loophole will circulate around people who try to mesh science and religion together. Science “MIGHT” eventually find the answers behind those unexplainable cosmic events. If science find it, then it’ll be science’s success. But religion comes within faith. People believe something they don’t know the answer of, existence of. They live their life by the commands of the books in hope for what is promised to them in afterlife. That’s it. [ What would happen if religious people came to know about God, heaven and hell, afterlife is just the bottom pit of the loophole. If people knew those things, you can’t be 100% sure that all the ‘religious’ people would live their life according to the commands of their religion to get into heaven. Uncertainty exists both in science and in religion. ]
“If people knew those things, you can’t be 100% sure that all the ‘religious’ people would live their life according to the commands of their religion to get into heaven.”
They already don’t 😂