…with the James Web Telescope looking for sources of artificial light to identify potential intelligent life, and the news this week of Perseverance searching for microbial life on Mars it feels like we are getting closer to a major discovery. But what - if anything - would it mean for the religions on Earth if life is proven to exist out there?

  • laurelinae@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for this brief history lesson! I had never heard of St. Augustine and his treatise.

    How do you think his argument fares now that the concept of purgatory exists?