[Vision2020] Lilfe on Mars?

Robert Dickow dickow@uidaho.edu
Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:45:42 -0800


The emergence of evidence of past life on Mars would be 
pretty insignificant from a religious point of view, if viewed thusly:

Only life on Earth would qualify as 'special' because it could
possess a SOUL. Individual Martian life forms would never have had
and never would be able to have a SOUL,
so it would have been non-special. Only on Earth (created at the
center of the universe 10,000 years ago) has special
life forms, such as people (and maybe house cats), which would
be blessed with SOULS that could go to heaven (or....gasp...the
OTHER place).

Problem solved.

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

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> From: Carl Westberg <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com>

> News from NASA today that the crater that Opportunity is exploring was at

> one time "awash" in water, the elixir of life.  Hypothetically speaking,
and 
> hypothetically asking, if further exploration were to prove that life
once 
> existed on Mars, what would be the reaction from certain belief groups
back 
> here on planet Earth?  Would it perhaps create something of a stir?  Or
not? 
>   Just wondering, not trying to provoke anything.  Too much.             
   
>