Believing in intelligent alien life

[goldent]

I think this is an interesting question for the religious for two reasons:

1. The parallels to belief in God - namely the lack of any concrete evidence. I know someone (maybe Carl Sagen) said that absence of evidence if not evidence of absence. Does this apply to both God and intelligent alien life?

2. How proof of the evidence of intelligent alien life would affect your religions beliefs.

I do believe there is intelligent alien life, although I believe the argument for it is pretty weak. Having only one example (ourselves) we don't have a lot of data to work with.

I don't think proof of the evidence of intelligent alien life would affect my religions beliefs, although I guess it would depend on the circumstances.