Will Religion Survive the Discovery of Life in Space?
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This  Replies to This Discussion          Hell* ironic huh lol.
We have now sent a vehicle into interstellar space - Voyager.
 For you Star Trek fans - VGER. And, notwithstanding this
"stellar" achievement, the majority of the members of that
species responsible for this accomplishment believe in some sort
of religion/superstition.  Who's to say that when (and I am
convinced it is a matter of when, and not if) we make contact
with another species as described in Drake's Equation, they too
will not have their own batshit version of
religion/superstition? Why should we think we're the only
species to be subjected to this?  The hope is that any
sufficiently advanced civilization that is capable of such
travel would be older, so people also assume that it would be
more... Well "mature" for lack of a better word...  There
certainly no reason to assume that it will be any older, more
peaceful