No 1,
This is off topic and I don’t have time to get into another debate (as you could deduce from my infrequent postings here) but I will answer a couple that I have addressed before. You don’t seem to realize that there is only one account of the creation story (Genesis 1) and a lot of references to it (such as Genesis 2). Genesis two is not a creation story but does refer to it. The problem most people have in that understanding, is that they are reading in English, while the original was recorded in ancient Hebrew, and the verb tenses haven’t been taken into account. All of the Gen.2 references to creation are in the past tense, so that is should be translated as “God had created….” Gives it a totally different meaning.
Actually, Gen. 1:20 just says they were created, doesn’t say what out of. Gen. 2:19 says that they had been created out of the ground.
Of course other humans existed. They were his brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews (no aunt or uncles or cousins) and there were likely a lot of them (no birth control: Adam to Eve the first time they met, “Stand back, I’m not sure how big this thing’s going to get!”) I’m aware of Cain’s lament that his punishment was too harsh, but not that he would be treated as a murderer in exile from the Garden of Eden. His parents (and therefore their descendants) were exiled before he was born. There is mention of him moving to a place east of Eden.
Biblically, our religion is intended only for the Earth. I doubt very many religious people would want to try to convert other worlds.
But scientifically, the chance of other “people” from other worlds existing is zero. Just to start with, you need a yellow sun, just like ours, which eliminates 98% of them, and it must be the exact same distance from the center of the galaxy as ours, and must be halfway between two of the spiral arms (now almost all of the rest are eliminated) and then you need a planet exactly like ours with a moon like ours (which is supposed to be next to impossible). And that’s just the beginning of all the critical criteria just for primitive life to be able to exist.
But I enjoy sci-fi too.
This is off topic and I don’t have time to get into another debate (as you could deduce from my infrequent postings here) but I will answer a couple that I have addressed before. You don’t seem to realize that there is only one account of the creation story (Genesis 1) and a lot of references to it (such as Genesis 2). Genesis two is not a creation story but does refer to it. The problem most people have in that understanding, is that they are reading in English, while the original was recorded in ancient Hebrew, and the verb tenses haven’t been taken into account. All of the Gen.2 references to creation are in the past tense, so that is should be translated as “God had created….” Gives it a totally different meaning.
Actually, Gen. 1:20 just says they were created, doesn’t say what out of. Gen. 2:19 says that they had been created out of the ground.
Of course other humans existed. They were his brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews (no aunt or uncles or cousins) and there were likely a lot of them (no birth control: Adam to Eve the first time they met, “Stand back, I’m not sure how big this thing’s going to get!”) I’m aware of Cain’s lament that his punishment was too harsh, but not that he would be treated as a murderer in exile from the Garden of Eden. His parents (and therefore their descendants) were exiled before he was born. There is mention of him moving to a place east of Eden.
Biblically, our religion is intended only for the Earth. I doubt very many religious people would want to try to convert other worlds.
But scientifically, the chance of other “people” from other worlds existing is zero. Just to start with, you need a yellow sun, just like ours, which eliminates 98% of them, and it must be the exact same distance from the center of the galaxy as ours, and must be halfway between two of the spiral arms (now almost all of the rest are eliminated) and then you need a planet exactly like ours with a moon like ours (which is supposed to be next to impossible). And that’s just the beginning of all the critical criteria just for primitive life to be able to exist.
But I enjoy sci-fi too.
1) the observation of phenomena or the results of experiments; (2) the formulation of hypotheses that describe these phenomena and that are consistent with the body of knowledge available; (3) the testing of these hypotheses by noting whether or not they adequately predict and describe new phenomena or the results of new experiments; (4) the modification or rejection of hypotheses that are not confirmed by observations or experiments.