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Originally posted by wafflehead:
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Seeing as this is a religious forum and the Baha'i Faith may be considered the newest independent religion, in a sense, here are a few quotes regarding this subject. Now these quotes are without context and there is of course context to flesh out the meaning, but it is still interesting. These quotes come from 1860s or 70s I believe.“Verily I say, the creation of God embraceth worlds besides this world, and creatures apart from these creatures.” . . . . then how is it possible to conceive that these stupendous stellar bodies are not inhabited? Verily, they are peopled, but let it be known that the dwellers accord with the elements of their respective spheres. These living beings do not have states of consciousness like unto those who live on the surface of this globe: the power of adaptation and environment moulds their bodies and states of consciousness, just as our bodies and minds are suited to our planet. . . . Beings who inhabit those distant luminous bodies are attuned to the elements that have gone into the composition of their respective spheres.
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Yes that was the view in the nineteenth century and then we had H.G. Wells and War of the Worlds, but in the twentieth century we got Enrico Fermii and Fermi's paradox, the paradox of the missing aliens.
