It seems that the Sensual Curmudgeon sees it much the way I do but in stronger terms with fuller language:
Like their comrade, Ken Ham (see Ken Ham Says There’s No Extraterrestrial Life and also Creationism & Life on Other Worlds), creationists take a dim view of life on other worlds.
This “Earth Only” view — we’ll artificially dignify it with Latin — Sola Terra — is now seen to be the dogma of the neo-theocrats at the Discovery Institute‘s creationist public relations and lobbying operation, the Center for Science and Culture (a/k/a the Discoveroids, a/k/a the cdesign proponentsists).
The Discoveroid doctrinal proclamation comes from David Klinghoffer, upon whom the Discoveroids have bestowed the exalted title of “senior fellow” (i.e., flaming, full-blown creationist). We’re certain that you know who Klinghoffer is, but if not, we last described him here. Our most recent post about his work was Klinghoffer v. Stephen Hawking, which showed him at his creationist best.
Klinghoffer’s new article is titled Water on Mars: Materialism’s Shroud of Turin. That’s an odd title. Is it merely a coincidence that one of our posts in June was titled Discovery Institute: The Shroud of Seattle? Yeah, it’s probably a coincidence.
Full article: Klinghoffer: Life on Mars Is a Darwinist Fantasy | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
“Creationists take a dim view of life on other worlds.” How do you define “Creationist?”
I believe God created the earth but I think Genesis is at least partly poetic. It reads like a poem. One short chapter can hardly begin to explain how God did it or how long it took. I’m not dogmatic about exactly how it was done.
And I think it’s arrogant to believe that we’re the only sentient life forms in the universe. It’s so vast, so huge… the possibilities are endless. I also think God spaced us far apart (if there are living beings out there) so there’s no possible way we can corrupt the others. Because it’s pretty obvious that we would. If God made other beings like us, he’s kept us in separate playpens and for very good reasons. I truly hope the other life forms out there are doing a better job than we are at getting along and nurturing their world as well as each other.
I think there are a lot of people who are not so dogmatic as the Creationist that you describe. Or maybe you’re just referring to the ones who write books and blogs.
I think putting all creationalists into a ‘catagory’ just shows how simple minded some are.I’m a creationalist and I have no problem in believing there are other worlds populated with beings or humans, as God did create the universe, not just the earth and the Sun.I also never took the ‘created earth in a week’ as actually meaning a week in our understanding of time/space.Maybe it’s a week in God’s time? Where a day could mean a billion years.Afterall you would think for God, time and space mean a completely different thing then we simple minded humans understand ‘scientifically’ at the moment.