…with the James Web Telescope looking for sources of artificial light to identify potential intelligent life, and the news this week of Perseverance searching for microbial life on Mars it feels like we are getting closer to a major discovery. But what - if anything - would it mean for the religions on Earth if life is proven to exist out there?
That said, it would take a long time from the first evidence of intelligent alien life to having it proven to the point that it can’t be dismissed as misinterpretation of data and malicious manipulation. Unless an alien armada invaded and took over part or all of Earth, there would be more than enough time for everyone to adapt without much issue.
And even then it wouldn’t be the unifying event for the world. It would literally be a race to see who could sell out the others first to get a technological advantage. It’s 2023 and we’re having a mind-boggling resurgence of people who again think the world is flat and that vaccines are just poison used for control.
Oh definitely. I was just saying that that’s the only scenario where religions for which the existence if aliens would have a problem wouldn’t have enough time to adapt.