
Canals on Mars? (Martian Life, Alien Life, Extraterrestrials, Exobiology)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Neebelwerk Isn't Inherently Incompatible With Catholicism
Natural selection doesn't prune for truth value. The mutation, while profound and useful in the fortieth century, might in fact, be a false belief. There's no reason to think we couldn't evolve with false beliefs through naturalistic evolution. However, since the neeblwerk does a deal with spiritual matters, if god allowed us to have a neebleverk like experience that was misleading, it would be handled under the problem of evil.
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After 19th-century astronomers said Mars has a worldwide network of canals, people speculated there was not just life but a civilization there. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore whether there is life on Mars, and if so, how it got there and what it is like. 
