Other Forms of Life (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 01:26 (5639 days ago) @ dhw

2) If God exists, there is no reason at all why he should not have created other forms of life elsewhere. Why confine himself to one tiny planet?
 
> 6) For those who are now tut-tutting, and mumbling, "Science fiction", it might be an idea to discuss BBella's initial point: what is the difference between debating God and debating other forms of life? - On point 6 I agree. There is no reason why we shouldn't explore every possibility. However, on point 2 I want to point out that the universe we live in is uniform in how matter is spread out, and all of the universe has the same elements, unless the ones we created are unique, because we are alone. It appears that life forms elsewhere should be built as we are from carbon, which is the simplest way to combine elements to form living organic chemicals. Granted the DNA eleswhere may have different programming. I mean this broadly, not that God programmed it, but that the inherent programming that developed on another planet was different, and it well could be.