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Jim Linville has a reply to my recent post about V and cargo cults<\/a>. He is of course right that, at the very least, we would find vendors selling \u201creal authentic alien gadgets\u201d to cure your ails, or perhaps increase the size of certain parts of your anatomy. He is also right, I believe, that we would see older religions embracing elements of the extraterrestrial, perhaps in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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http:\/\/fr.toonpool.com\/cartoons\/jesus%20flying%20saucer_73302
HT Jim Linville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And if the aliens were atheists, presumably that would encourage atheists and trouble many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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HT Pharyngula<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

But I suspect that while there would be a great deal of bunk peddled all around, there would be some voices of sanity in their midst as well. And so let me end by linking to a\u00a0few\u00a0posts from around the blogosphere featuring Christians trying to object to the anti-science stance of\u00a0other Christians:<\/p>\n

Dennis Vennema explains in detail why the evidence does not support the claims of Reasons to Believe<\/a>.
Bob Cornwall shares Martin Marty\u2019s thoughts on \u201cChristian Evolutions.\u201d<\/a>
Evolving Christian explains how his view of the truthfulness of the Bible has evolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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