Interfaith Group

The main argument for extraterrestrial life is statistical: there are so many galaxies, stars and planets that one or more of them must contain life.

Going in the opposite direction, the number of factors, distance from the sun, mass of the planet, chemical proportions, etc., precisely aligned, that are needed for life results also in a statistical improbability.

The odds for an intelligent life are even higher.

I think it's a statistical push.

But if one were encountered, it would have an enormous impact on Christianity, much less so on other religions. Proof of intelligent extraterrestrial life would be proof of polygenism, the independent and separate development of intelligent species. This challenges the notion of divine intervention in creation by imparting a soul, aka intelligence, into two creatures from whom all other ensouled intelligent beings descend.

In other words, did Xenu, stranger to Adam, also have a soul?