
Canals on Mars? (Martian Life, Alien Life, Extraterrestrials, Exobiology)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Is There Life on Mars?
There is no conflict with the christian faith if there's life on mars, or any other planet. The fact we know that god created intelligent beings more than just once means that we shouldn't dismiss the idea of other intelligent biological creatures like us. An alternative view is that life originated elsewhere in the universe and then came here. If it arose on mars first, it could have been carried here by meteorites and then taken hold in earth's more favorable climate. There is even a theory known as pan spermia which holds that microbial life is common throughout the universe,. It travels on comets and asteroids, in meteoroids, seeding new planets as they form.
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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. 
