The space exploration and reaching far planets are upturning religion upside down. For example the day of judgment where it will be? Where will be the paradize andwhere will be the hell?
and human transplants on the moon, planet Mars and what not?
Jesus descending from heaven on a horse! How about descending on Mars?
Will the devil travel to Mars? Will he corrupt the human transplants and chase them over there?
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Think about how you feel when you see the Earth from space or the Apollo astronauts walking on the moon. These images are achievements of science, sure, but they also have a religious feel to them; they tug at something deeper than engineering, something sublime. When viewed as a whole, space exploration has a lot in common with religion. It offers us a salvation narrative, for instance, whereby we put our faith in technology in order to be delivered to new worlds. Its priests, figures like Neil deGrasse Tyson, extoll its virtues in what sound like sermons. In its iconography, astronauts are like saints that ascend into heaven and extraterrestrials are like gods---benevolent, kind, wise, capable of manipulating space and time.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-holy-cosmos-the-new-religion-of-space-exploration/255136/
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