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Whenever someone says 'religions' in the western hemisphere, it usually means Christianity. E.g. Islam fundamentally will not have a crisis even if alien life is discovered because it doesn't disprove the existence and oneness of a Creator which is Islam's strict monotheism denotes.

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The problem isn't that theology cannot be harmonized with intelligent alien life, it's that such an expansion of the universe would highlight the hyper-provincialism of an already highly provincial religion.

I'd assume Islam would have a pretty tough time too, as the centuries of accreted dogma needed to be updated from a human-centric to intelligent-life-centric perspective.

The stronger the dogma, the more heretical change is. And there are a lot of very dogmatic Islamic branches.

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