Re: [asa] [ASA] Life on Mars

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From: "Johan Jammart" <j_jammart@yahoo.fr>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:59 AM
Subject: [asa] [ASA] Life on Mars

>I just heard about this news:
>
> "Two dark gullies turned bright as NASA's now-lost Mars Global Surveyor
> looked on, suggesting liquid water still flows on the Red Planet "
>
> http://www.asa3.org:16080/weblog/jackhaas/2006/12/06/WaterflowsonMarsbeforeourver.html
>
> Of course presence of water doesn't mean presence of extraterrestrial
> life, but speculation usually abound with such news.
>
> If presence of life would be found on mars, would it shake your faith? I
> would like to have your opinions on this! Many thanks in advance!

The existence of intelligent life elsewhere (which is unlikely on Mars!)
would require some theological work but there's no reason why the type of
life which might exist on Mars (now or in the past) should shake anyone's
faith.

My most reason "Handiwork" column for the journal _Lutheran Partners_ deals
with this issue. It can be found at
http://www.elca.org/lutheranpartners/handiwork/past/070102.html . (I hope
my references to my own writings don't seem too self-promoting but it seems
more sensible to do that than to write the same things over & over,
especially if articles are on the web.)

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Sun Jan 7 11:15:33 2007