According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe. And that's just the observable universe, which is likely just a fraction of the universe as a whole. Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone.
Of those stars, how many possible planets, both Earth-like and other, could there possibly be?
On Earth, all life is based on organic compounds. These molecules are composed of carbon and often include other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur.
However, scientists have long wondered if alien life might evolve based on significantly different chemistry. For example, researchers have long speculated that silicon might also serve as a backbone for biology.
Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets using a variety of elements beyond the carbon upon which Earth's life is based, a new study finds. (https://www.space.com/alien-life-not-carbon-based-autocatalysis-common)
Regardless of whether there are other forms of life other than carbon-based life, the possibility of the different forms of life as complex as humans on other planets is mind boggling, to say the least. (Naturally, no Christian ever wonders if Jesus would have to show up in each of those forms of life, to suffer and die for their sins as much as he had to do so for the sins of humans.)
Now imagine a convention of scientists turning into a brutal blood bath after they all begin arguing and fighting over what kinds of life might exist on any of the planets that might exist around those 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe, and even more so over all the planets that might exist around the even more number of stars that exist outside of the observable universe.
Of course this is ridicules and absurd. Especially because the number of possible life forms that humans could imagine to exist are still far less than the infinite number of life forms that could exist but humans could never imagine to exist.
Now try to imagine what kind of life could be neither carbon based nor non-carbon based, and indeed non material in any shape or form, and to exist outside of all concepts of time and space. Indeed, just try to imagine a space in which such a life could exist, if it exists outside of all space. Hell, let's make it infinitely more simple than that, and just try to imagine what it's like to live in a four dimensional universe, or a five, and so on.
And so, just like the potentially infinite number of stars could host a potentially infinite number of different life forms, from what we could imagine to even more of what would be beyond what we could imagine such life to look and be like, so any kind of a "God" that could be said to be both wholly immaterial and wholly infinite would be at least as infinite in both what we could imagine such a "God" to be like and what we would be unable to imagine such a God could be.
All of those scientists arguing and killing each other over what kinds of life could exist around all the stars in the universe is exactly what it is like when people argue over what kind of God the word "God" is referring to, and what kind of definition of the word "God" is blasphemous to such a God.
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