Barry Lyons
1 min readJun 26, 2019

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You missed my point about Laniakea: If intelligent life exists elsewhere, then there is no reason to believe that the universe exists for us, or was “fine-tuned” for us, or that we’re “God’s special children” in need of being “saved.” All Earth-based, human-centric religious beliefs ought to become null and void the moment we discover life elsewhere, even if that life is “only” a microbe on Mars.

“Sin” is a religious fiction. Sure, the word can be used colloquially just as “divine” is (“That chocolate cake is divine”), but “sin,” as a religious concept, exists only in the minds of theists.

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Barry Lyons
Barry Lyons

Written by Barry Lyons

Lives in New York City, owns too many books and CDs. But then again, there's no such thing as "too many" books and CDs.

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