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Originally Posted by Rain Man
It would be interesting to see the collision between aliens and devout religion.
I suspect that religion would survive relatively intact somehow. You look at dinosaurs and fossils, and they directly contraindicate statements in the Bible. I don't know a lot about this, so others may have a more informed opinion, but it seems to me like it changed the way a lot of reasonable and religious people interpreted the Bible, and they now read it more as an allegorical or metaphorical document than an actual "word of god" that is literal. Those folks would probably do the same in the case of aliens.
There's a second group of people who are Bible literalists. I don't know how they fit dinosaurs into that worldview because it's a pretty direct conflict, but I figure they'll fit aliens in the same way. For this group, the alien scenario has already happened, and their religious beliefs survived intact.
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the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.
Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.