A Question to All beleivers of all faiths

Don't think it would bother my faith. I am not a Christian, but its hard for me to believe something with the power to create life as we know it would only do it once. Seems kind of vain to me. And as for how life begin, well who is to say that some deity didn't create it whatever way it is found to have started? I am lucky in that my faith and my education can live in separate parts of my brain and not bother each other. I always think science has found what it has found because the Goddess planned the rules to be that way. I have never thought faith and science to be mutually exclusive. I know exactly 1 atheist, and I have a biology Masters degree and every biologist I have ever met had some sort of faith, whether it was agnostic, Catholic, Mormon, Hindu, you name it I know one of that faith, and I am the token pagan. We have beliefin our faith and in our science too--in fact I pray every night and observe the holidays for my faith and I teach evolution in my classes. And some would find it hard to believe that those things could coincide together, but in me they do.

Faith means complete surrender, if there exists even a shadow of doubt then the faith ain't faith. Whatever religion a man believes in i think every religion preaches its followers to have complete faith and trust on the lord. There is no truth greater than the existence of the lord himself.

It would shake the foundations of many religious doctrines, but even with life on other planets etc, it all had to have been created from or by something! God is omnipotent so why would God be limited to our own world anyway? I don't personally follow a specific religious path or organized faith, so an announcement such as this would not affect my faith at all. If anything, it would strengthen it!

It certainly wouldn't affect my faith. My cognisance of 'God' includes the possibility that there are other intelligent beings in the universe, for one thing, and it also allows for a 'scientific' explanation for the creation of life.

Your mention of 'time travel' is interesting. Most of us have no real concept of time. We see it as a linear thing in which there is a past, present and future and outside of which it is not (at present) possible to be physically. Our reality is always and essentially a 'now'. I am almost certain that the way that 'God' perceives it is entirely different. Position on a line has no particular relevance or meaning to that kind of mind, so 'time travel' is both elementary and supremely unimportant just as, in certain circumstances, it is irrelevant to us whether we are lying, sitting or standing.

Why would any scientific advance or new discovery have any effect on my conviction that there is an intelligent and ordered pattern to this universe; that randomness exists, but that it is filtered and augmented by a supreme consciousness. There is nothing basically wrong with the Creation myths that are given in Genesis: it is merely our modern habit of forgetting the true nature of myth that is at fault.

Hi, I am the kind of person who believes what I was taught as a child that God created the universe (Heaven and Earth too) which would include any ET's on other planets as well. That being said I also believe in the possibility of evelution (sp)and scientific explanations. Beliefs are an important part of life in my opinion it gives us something to hope for when our time comes to leave this life. Everyone believes in something whether it be religion or science or both, there is no right or wrong choice as far as I am concerned as long as people respect each others right to thier beliefs most people can live a peaceful co exsistance.
Where do you believe we go (if anywhere) when we die?

It won't affect my faith as a Muslim because my faith tells me the universe is full of infinite knowledge and infinite possibilities and even there is a story told in the Quran where a group of people actually time travel few hundred years into the future.

It would not affect my faith one bit.I am a spiritual person.I respect all the people who follow various religions,but on a personal level I don't follow a religion. For me all realms of possibility exist. What we know today can change tomorrow. It takes a lot to prove a theory,but to prove that it is wrong just one instance is enough.So I believe that things and our entire belief system should be flexible enough to accept new truths that are unravelled.

There are a lot of "what if's" in this world and I think that's one of the reasons why we keep on searching that very state where we can say that "Yes, I believe in this, I believe on that, anything is possible! Who cares, that's just life! I'll stick where I'm comfortable with!"

If ever there will be a real-life time machine in the future (I really hope so), I hope I'm still alive so I can experience this back to the past journey.

Probably the first place I would like to go is the Garden of Eden, but if the time machine won't function, then it's possible that the Garden of Eden didn't exist in the first place. From there, I would turn to the scientific theory of Big Bang. If I saw and heard the actual explosion and the evolving of gases to planets, moons, and stars, up to the evolving of one particular cell to different species of animals and even human beings, then there's a great chance that my faith and even my outlook in life would change from that point.

And by the way, if ever scientists will prove the existence of extra terrestrials, I don't think it will shake my faith. On the other hand, I think it would be interesting to see some weird looking aliens.

I won't shake the faith that I firmly believe in including how life on this earth or universe as a whole began.

i have faith in myself that i am open to knowing new discoveries and finding and accept all that makes sense after verification and satisfying myself. i accept that there are phenomenas that are beyond my understanding and i do not consider those as god's miracles. everything that happens in this universe is not a miracle, its just that our understanding has not reached a level where we could see it clearly.

any new finding should be welcomed. if it is contrary to the faith in which i was born, it makes no difference to me. because my faith teaches me not to take anything on face value. it ask me to find the reality of everything, satisfy oneself before accepting it or rejecting it.

this cosmos is filled with billions of possibilities. life exist in other parts of cosmos too. there is no doubt about it. it looks like we the inhabitants of this earth as limited by technology and knowledge that we find it difficult to accept there are other far advanced than us else where. disclosure of this will affect all those faiths who believed that we are of recent origin and someone created us to worship him.