…with the James Web Telescope looking for sources of artificial light to identify potential intelligent life, and the news this week of Perseverance searching for microbial life on Mars it feels like we are getting closer to a major discovery. But what - if anything - would it mean for the religions on Earth if life is proven to exist out there?
Pray tell, at which point did I claim any religion as my own?
Anyway, my point that the level of literalness of the original sin story being irrelevant to the theology building off it stands. What matters to people who believe in it is that it tells them about original sin, not whether or not a literal fruit and snake were involved.