I have no problem believing in intelligent life elsewhere. (Now when I attend a faculty meeting, or watch CNN reporting on political life in Washington, I sometimes whether those places are capable of sustaining intelligent life, but that's another question.)

That the Bible is silent on the question (other than the "created heavens and earth" bit) seems to me far from enough to say "no." If God is smart enough to transcend my understanding on the written bits, He's certainly smart enough to transcend my understanding of the silent bits.

And of course he does.

I mean, is "granite" or "salt" a phenomenon known only on Earth? If planetary system XXX-XX has an "Earth Type" planet, will it have granite?

Heck, maybe it has sentient granite. How might God write The Word for sentient granite? Maybe sentient granite weren't dumb enough to eat from the Sand of Knowledge, and so He never needed to inspire people to write down The Book Of Granite?

It could make for some interesting conversations about countertops when we get to Heaven.

:)

"Wade" wrote:

Adolph Hitler was a follower of Darwin. He used Darwin's chart to "speed up" evolution by wiping out all races that were "closer to pure ape", which evolution taught at the time.

"Cheesey" wrote:

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. i, ch. xi

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. ii, ch. x

From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today? Looking at Nature tells us, that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen. But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump , as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today. - Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Tabletalk (Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier)