"Lightning From the East" speaks

The question was:

Christians, do you believe in life on other planets?

And furthermore:

"And if you do, do you think they have the bible and did Jesus visit them too?"

To which I responded:

"'Mankind is the only one that can believe and follow god', huh?

Awful damn convenient, isn't that? Furthermore, how do you know? And if you really believe that, isn't all evangelism a waste of time? Since predestination is clearly written in stone, in your view?

And if you don't think that other species can find the love of god, does that mean cats, dogs and other pets are automatically consigned to the lake of fire and brimstone? What if we found another planet with humans already on it, and they were under the impression that THEY were god's chosen people?

I guess what I'm sayin is; your reasoning's got a couple holes in it."

Hm. Not sure who I was responding to. Perhaps that was part of a comment that has since been erased. But look what the Best Answerer ('Lightning From the East') said:

"The Bible does not say if there is life on other planets. It simply says that God created the heavens and earth and put man on it. But this silence on the subject does not require that earth is the only place with life on it. But then again, this doesn't mean there is life out there, either.

Let me propose some reasons why I believe there is no life on other planets. Now, I should tell you that these reasons are simply exercises in biblical theology."

...And then he proceeds to filibuster the hell out of this notion forever and ever and ever. By 'exercises in biblical theology,' he means, 'attempting to prove something by burying you under a ton of quotes from some book I really like.'

Then 'Mr. McKenzie, Tears of Joy' (who is actually a dog, according to his picture) steps in and does the exact same thing, except with questionable 'scientific facts':

"Earth has plate tectonics, which cycles fragments of earth's crust down into the mantle, resulting ultimately in a kind of thermostat that keeps the greenhouse gases in balance and surface temperature under control."
Yeah, great job on that one, Earth.

"Earth is far from the nucleus of the galaxy, where there's a massive black hole and more supernovae exploding."
Which kind of makes it sound like there was once some sort of Big Explosion there, which you guys swear up and down didn't happen.

"Earth is on the very inner edge of the Circumstellar Habitable Zone, the only place where you can have low enough carbon dioxide and high enough oxygen to sustain complex animal life."
Now you're just making up names...

"Earth's nearly circular orbit keeps it in the safe zone and maintains Earth at a steady temperature."
What now?

But my favorite stray observation came from 'Sirheinson', who let us in on this interesting Fact...

"mormons believe that jesus appeared to native americans after being impaled and before going to heaven, so..."

No, wait a minute...Go back to that 'impaled' thing.

'Steel Rain,'(who has a delightful pic of a B-1 bomber, dropping lots of bombs on unfortunate Others far beneath) sums it all up with this fantastic logic:

"God is alive, therefore there is life everywhere in the cosmos because God is everywhere."

Folks, I think I just found the central argument of all theology, and damn if it ain't Circular.