If there was proof of intelligent life in the universe, why would that have an effect on religious beliefs?

Question

I mean, God is still God. So what if he made another race of being? He was probably just bored. Maybe it was all a part of his big plan. He doesn't have to tell us everything, right? There's a lot about so many different things that us humans don't know. If there isn't life out there somewhere, intelligent or not, it's an awful waste of space. I don't think God would waste spaceI think he'd utilize just right and it's awfully selfish of us to think we are the only one. Why should we be? If we communicated with aliens, why would religious people get so upset? It's not like the Aliens are God. They are just other beings, living their advanced life,(presumably) being curious about ours. We could probably learn something from them and maybe even find a way to produce less waste and clean up the earth for all the other critters. I don't know why the existance of extra terrestrial intelligent beings should have any affect on the fact that I believe in God, Jesus Christ and all that stuff. If intelligent being did communicate with us, wouldn't that be a gift from God? Well only if they were amicable, not if they were evil, then it's a challenge from God. Would you loose faith in God just because there was proof of extra-terrestrial intelligent life?

Answer 1

Because there's no mention of aliens in the bible. If you're going by a "god made humans to have domain over all creatures" interpretation - and most Christians I've met do - you can't continue to assume that's accurate if there's an equally intelligent species out there.

Answer 2

The Bible mentions nothing of other life in the universe - this is why it affects religion.

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Answer 3

It would not change anything in the bible as far as I know.

In fact there seem to be some hints in the OT that superior beings, not of this world, had come to this planet some time ago.

Answer 4

There has to be life out there and it makes no difference to my spiritual beliefs.

Answer 5

Yeah, you say that, but as soon as the aliens say they have undeniable scientific proof of evolution, all of a sudden they'll be "a horde of demons here to trick True Christians™"

Seriously, though, it would negate Genesis, the idea of axis mundie, and the idea that we're special in the universe(even though sensible people already know that we're not). It would threaten dogmatic religious ideas of God, and that's what will throw people into a hysterical fit.