so you are nuts. good to know. nothing you posted there is true about Christianity. you are just completely off base with your understanding of what Christianity teaches.
I'm not nuts lol. I make a concious effort to have as little negative impact on this planet as possible, I don't shoot/kill animals for fun, I pay the extra money for "green" electricity ect and it bothers me how humans are destroying our natural resources here on Earth and the owners of the planet are making little to no effort in finding other planets to migrate to. I have had many discussions with fundamentalist Christians who make a conscious effort
not to care about the Earth or the environment and they laugh at the theory of global warming all because they have been taught (in church) that they have dominion over every other lifeform here on Earth. eg
"Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
"Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
I'm not saying that you share this attitude as you have no doubt evolved (AKA cherry-picked) your christian beliefs.
Christians don't believe in raping the earth for our gain. if we would have spent the last 2000 years devoted to space exploration we likely wouldn't be any closer to colonizing another planet than we are now.
Why not? We haven't even tried and we have only recently discovered how to find other planets orbiting stars in other solar systems. Nicolaus Copernicus was the first scientist to propose that the earth in fact went around the sun and not the other way around and he was persecuted by the christian authorities because of it. Christian establishments have been against any idea that conflicts with the bible even when there is a staggering amount of evidence to suggest otherwise and they still do so today. My point being that if these powerfull establishments hadn't been so narrow-minded and were open to new ideas we could have migrated to many planets by now, christianity and science have never mixed.
I believe if we wanted to we could colonize Mars. and I'm not against sending men to Mars to do that, but to what end? lol. we certainly aren't capable with known science in getting men to another solar system. hell we are just beginning to find planets in other solar systems that may be earth like.
As you would be well aware there is no point in sending man to Mars, we need to think bigger and look for planets in other solar systems that are in the inhabbitable zone for life, not just one but many. Sure, we are already doing this but we should be making it top priority.
you really need to come back to the reservation. right now you have turned science into your religion, and science is something that is always proving what we "know" today to be wrong. trust me when I say you didn't offend me. takes way more than that for me to get offended. I just disagree with everything you posted
Science isn't my religion as I'm against religion, religions teach people to be satisfied with not understanding the world in which we live and that, I believe is a huge loss as we are all extremely lucky to have witnessed existence. To be indoctinated with lies regarding why we exist at all destroys appreciation at how we managed to beat the odd and survive to become fully concious beings. Science will only improve in time as it corrects its mistakes where as religions keep believing lies even when the evidence proves otherwise.
I'm glad I didn't offend you as it was not my intention, I just happen to be passionate about space travel, extremely curious as to what else is out there and frustrated with the human race's obsession with the supernatural, it is this obsession that is holding us back as a race.
