Don John of Austria Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 Maybe I don't understand your response, please explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don John of Austria Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 bump because I want peoples opionions on my question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasJis Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 bump because I want peoples opionions on my question. Does it have to be people, or can I respond? :abduction: I'd say the right of dominion over creatures given to Man by God inherently includes other worlds, etc. It would be more than okay to colonize other planets. How explicit could Genesis be without totally befuddling people and saying that we have dominion over creatures of othe planets? Heck, they had a hard enough time when Galileo showed them other planets were not stars less then 500 years ago. I'd also say, it would be a moral duty to evangelize if we found intelligent life, if God has not already done so. Or is that a Mormon thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don John of Austria Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 Jas you are mot welcome. Well Like I said I am not trying debate wether or not Aliens wold be people, we have discussed such things before, and if one would like I will be happy to discuss that on another thread. Now first I am not saying I disagree with you( frankly I am still trying to work out what I think on this issue) but I am going to play devils advocate here. God gave us this planet, He intrusted it and it's creatures to us, but he didn't say that other planets were in that stewartship, more than that there are certain things which are explicitly forbidden to us regarding that Stewardship( genetic manipulationof people for instance) so since that Authority was not Given to us and it is clear that our Authority is not absolute than we are not autorised to claim dominion over anything other than that which was explicitly given. thus it would be immoral to colonize other worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX2 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 if the US landed on Mars and claimed it, would we have the right to the whole planet? aslo for that vatican space fund...how bout an extra collection at each mass all around the world? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don John of Austria Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 if the US landed on Mars and claimed it, would we have the right to the whole planet? Probably according to the traditions of terratorial rights. But I would think it would have to be a Human landing not a probe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don John of Austria Posted January 15, 2004 Author Share Posted January 15, 2004 Nothing more? I have had two real responses to my question. This is very disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 I don't understand your response, please explain. My apologies for not getting back to you earlier. It simply means that I honestly don't know and haven't given much thought to this. But I will add this: 1) God gave dominion to us over the earth. So as part of that dominion we've created tools and spaceships to explore other worlds. 2) In the past when mankind got "too big for its britches" God thwarted it. I'm specifically referring to the Tower of Babel incident. My point here is that if God is really really really dead set against us colonizing other worlds, He may somehow find a way to stop it (or maybe not, He might simply call us on the carpet on judgement day). I know this is not a definite answer (because I don't have one myself!) but maybe this will give a few more things to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 I'd also say, it would be a moral duty to evangelize if we found intelligent life, if God has not already done so. To be perfectly honest, that is the moral issue of space travel that I'm more interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don John of Austria Posted January 15, 2004 Author Share Posted January 15, 2004 "To be perfectly honest, that is the moral issue of space travel that I'm more interested in. " I'll try to fing the tread where we discussed it in detail for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don John of Austria Posted January 15, 2004 Author Share Posted January 15, 2004 Can't find it it must of been on the old forum, but I did find part of an old post where I discussed it so I am going to adapt that as a new topic. Still I would like people to think about and respond to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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