Interesting, planning ahead by the look of it.
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I think the question would be if those planets had or had not had a Christ figure incarnate on their planet yet. It could throw the Christian story of Christ being the Savior for all into question.
This is how I’ve heard it put by these scientists.
Could not Christ be the Savior of ALL his brothers and sisters? Including those on the ‘worlds without end’? Is not His Atonement infinite in its reach?
Christian doctrine says God made us in His image. So if we were to happen upon an alien species, which would have comparable or much higher intelligence that ours (which is the most likely outcome, making an interstellar journey is not easy) that would create a pot of questions. Do those beings have souls? Do they exist in the afterlife as well?
They're also made in his image. Although, imagine the Roman’s surprise to meet the head-shaping Mongol Huns for the first time (they would wrap their heads during development, elongating their skulls). They look fairly alien.
Now imagine a race of humans even further distant genetically and culturally. Hollywood corrupts our perspective on this subject - they don’t look like Hollywood’s version, but we’d think they look weird/different.
Would be a pretty gnarly sight, being attacked, hand to hand combat, by an army with long heads.
I don't think they would look like humans at all. I mean they evolved in an alien planet with probably a completely different climate, atmospheric make-up, gravity etc. Sci-fi films always portray aliens as humans with colourful makeup because of the practical limitations, reality might differ a lot.