pooua@aol.com (Richard Alexander) wrote in message news:<d8fbbe2d.0408041847.790a1eb2@posting.google.com>...

"If Intelligent life exists elsewhere in our galaxy, advances in
computer processing power and radio telescope technology will ensure
we detect their transmissions within two decades. That's the bold
prediction from a leading light at the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence Institute in Mountain View, California.

"Seth Shostak, the SETI Institute's senior astronomer, based his
prediction on accepted assumptions about the likelihood of alien
civilisations existing, combined with projected increases in computing
power."

"First Contact Within 20 Years: Shostak"
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/seti-04e.html

As a Creationist, I welcome opportunities to prove abiogenesis wrong.
It is wonderful that in only 20 years, we could finally lay to rest so
much of the nonsense that there is extra-terrestrial life (at least
within our galaxy). Of course, this doesn't rule out unintelligent
forms of life (bacteria, plants and many Democrats) but it does weed
out the more flamboyant possibilities. So, I would like to extend a
hearty "Thank You" to Seth Shostak for putting his neck on the line,
even though I fully believe that in 20 years, everyone in the
evolution camp will deny that his comments actually meant anything.

Do you ever think that God might have given the prime directive to
Extra Terrestrials, Extra Dimensionals, and other sentient creatures
on this planet other than us on NOT to talk to us?

Remember that we humans beings or to be more precise descendants of
Adam (or what ever one wish to call him) are essentially children, no,
make it babies.

Would it better if these children grown up on their own? Without any
big interferences from other already grown up children?



As for interferences by grown up species.

Oh... There are many of those in ancient scriptures.

There the Canaans, one of them make fool out of Noah. The Anakim tribe
scared the Israel scouts due to their differences in height.

The Canaans also owned the Castle of Zion, till David drove them out
and renamed the castle of Zion into the City of David.

Man... Those Canaans must be have really upset when that happened,
they must have said something like "we will reclaim our homeland, our
promised land, Sieg Zion!"



As for religion and believing in God.

Well... A religion can be anything, it doesn't necessary have to be
include believing in God. Believing in E.T. also count as a religion.



As for believing in God.

Personally, I think that Carl Sagan kinda deitified Extra
Terrestrials. He commented on how people shouldn't put an image on how
Extra Terrestrials look like.

Gee... Isn't that the same reasoning that religious people used on
God?

But many of Carl Sagan seems to be anti-human, defaming human and
kinda made them feel inferior.

I do remember when he asked for a space probe to point its camera to
Earth, with the result is an image of a Earth looked like a small dot,
to point to us that we are just small beings living in a small place.

Perharps he was used by a non-human group?



As for the comment that "no wars have started because of someone
believing in a different ET then his/her neighbour"

Hmmm... Why do you think that it hasn't already happening?

The mass media? Is this also the same mass media that told on how wars
happened because of God?

Well... we know on whom owned the mass media. So just ignored the mass
media.

Anyway. Just took around at YOUR OWN neighbourhood, it's doubtful that
most people make a big fuss on other people believeing, though they do
get offended if their believes aren't respected.

Of course if people in your neighbourhood do act negatively, like
saying on how Chewbacca can knock a Klingon, or E.T. can defeat both
of them. Then big conflicts arose.

Then get out of it. They're not good for you and you're not good for
them. Of course unless you're part of them.