capsaicin67

IMO it would certainly impact many individuals' beliefs as well as the stances and doctrine of several organizations. The new information would have to be incorporated into their respective stories. The orgs would go into a mode of emergency spinning and all of us here can imagine how Biblical verse and prophecy could be reinterpreted to "explain" this inconvenience away. The Left Behind Franchise would have fodder for their 53rd book or whatever. I'd have to say that a number of people would probably see things a bit differently and it would awaken them to something more closely approximating reality.

In the meantime, hopefully, we'd fare as well as or better than the Aztecs...... but then, the aliens might have plans for us or our resources that are ultimately not very empowering to homo sapiens.

Hugo Holbling

I just wanted to note that this was pretty funny.

Consistent Thinker

One-way contact (us receiving EM signals) seems to be much more likely.

Rational BAC

I agree with Kassiana.

I don't see that it would make any more difference to a theist than a non-theist.

It would prove that there are "higher" life forms than Man. Extrapolating that "higher" and "higher" and it would make an excellent argument for a God. Not against one.

Now what a Christian fundamentalist might think about it. I don't know.

Marduk

"Now what a Christian fundamentalist might think about it. I don't know."

I've seen fundy websites that believe UFO's, alien abductions are real and they are demons, aliens it seems, work for the Devil.



http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/off...w.seekye1.com/


http://www.mt.net/~watcher/

contracycle

I'm surprised to hear that. It seems to me that quite a lot of christianity and the other religions of the People of the Book(s) are dependant on being 'special creation', and god as having a particular interest in us.

If it turns out hat we arn't any more special than any other animal - becuase intelligent, technical specieis are found elsewhere - would this not undermine the percpetion that we are the special creation of god, in which god has a special interest?

Would it not also be a bit god that god, in all the stuff about banishing us from the garden of eden, failed ever to mention these others? Did they have a different eden? Would this not imply that edens are territorially specific rather than a blessed state in communion with god?

Do we and they go to the same heaven and hell? What if they came doen here and started ministering to us in much the way that European missionaries went out to the "wilderness"?

Unfortunately, it would also provide excellent cirtcumstantial support for the Von Daniken hypothesis that perceived gods are actually technology-wielding aliens.