this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
0 points (NaN% liked)

No Stupid Questions

35258 readers
1541 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

....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?

top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] milos_obilic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably not.

By the way, to all who are ridiculing religious folk: the big bang theory was theorised by a Catholic priest, and it only strengthened his faith.

[–] Proweruser@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

How does that make religion less dumb?

[–] Proweruser@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

How does that make religion less dumb?

[–] Brochetudo@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Just meeting another person who didn't automatically believe in your allegedly true God unless you told him about it should have put religion to rest forever.

Moreover, it's almost funny how thousands of cultures who had no contact between them at all have imagery of red devils with bad intentions yet nobody manages to have even a similar idea of what our supposed God is.

[–] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] anteaters@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where did you get that idea from? Even the pope accepts evolution and the big bang as creation history. Religion accepts scientific truth all the time, they just attach "... because of god" to everything.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So why do they think monkeys should evolve from peanut butter?

[–] anteaters@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is just as stupid a statement as "scientists believe we evolved from monkeys". Not even the strongest believers I erer met claimed something like that.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] anteaters@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some dumbass on youtube is not "they" when we are talking about "abrahamic religion". How fucking difficult is that for you to understand?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a lot of religious people will reason it this way- "Yes, there are aliens, but God chose us."

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

They would just claim god created them, too. They already did this with the universe when the whole thing about there being other stuff than the earth came up.