Most Earthlike planet found

Gliese 581d, originally discovered in 2007, has recently been found to, perhaps, have an environment that could support life. It is the most Earthlike planet yet to be discovered and is an exoplanet. National Geographic writes,

First discovered in 2007, Gliese 581d was originally calculated to be too far away from its host star—and therefore too cold—to support an ocean.

But (astronomer Michel Mayor, from Geneva University in Switzerland) … and colleagues now show that the extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, orbits its host in 66.8 days, putting it just inside the cool star’s habitable zone.

Also, according to Nat Geo,

Weighing in at around seven Earth masses, Gliese 581d is unlikely to be made of rocks alone, the team believes.

“We can only speculate at this stage, but it may have a rocky core, encased in an icy layer, with a liquid ocean at the surface and an atmosphere,” Mayor said.

This goes along with water ice discovered in 2008 on Mars. Obviously, water is the key to life. Where water is, life is not far behind. But I have this question. If we verify 100 percent in the next decade or so, as some predict, that, through these discoveries or others, that life does exist on Mars or some exoplanet in the form of a single celled organism or some other simple organism, how will that implicate religion as we know it? True, the big three, Judaism, Christianity and Islam attribute a creator god. But specifically with Christianity, how will such a finding affect things, if at all? Genesis assembles life on Earth (and only Earth) through God in a matter of three chapters with no mention of  the possibility of life anywhere other than Earth, which is convenient, since ancients believed the earth was the center of the solar system, not the sun. In fact, Earth exists on a spiral arm, so we are at the center of nothing, contrary to what the ancients and the biblical writers believed. We just are. And the discovery of life, or past life, on some other planet, would, it seems to me, shoot holes in creationist theories, perhaps beyond repair.