Posted on 05/13/2008 1:10:00 PM PDT by meandog
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.
The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.
I thought it was our God-given duty to KILL Klingons...
On your Phaser, that’s the next setting above “Stun”...
Reports indicate they communciate by thought—reading and projecting into folks’ minds.
There’s also significant evidence of some minority of them using a variety of earth languages in some rare contexts.
I don’t remember the details on the latter.
Arguing from silence is not likely to be overly productive, emphatically confincing nor accurate.
God says many things.
He doesn’t elaborate much on the sparce mention of the fallen angels/nephilium/watchers etc.
Even Enoch is cryptic in many respects.
Rather than "Satanic manifestations", a more accurate description would be "pseudoscientific nonsense". There's certainly no need to invoke the supernatural to dubunk UFO devotees.
On the other hand, there's certainly nothing wrong the legitimate search for alien intelligence (SETI, for instance).
There are a lot of potentially life-bearing planets out there, and we've only searched for electromagnetic transmissions from the tiniest fraction of them.
I hope you’re right. A couple of the “SETI” stations are located in the Owens Valley south of Bishop, Ca. Every time I drive by, I can’t help but imagine them as radio beacons sending out a cosmic message that amounts to “Eat Here”.
Io, Europa, and Ganymede are moons of Jupiter. Juno is an asteroid.
Well, as long as they don’t gossip, I guess that’s OK...
I have no problem believing in unintelligent slime on another world.
I agree wholeheartedly! The quicker we can get “Progressives” off this planet and onto some other world the better!
Oh no.
We have enough democrats here on Earth already!
"Better known"? Which ones would those be? Wookies? Klingons?
and reportedly use the body parts for sustenence . . . food.
It's a cookbook!
It was one very minor official who works for the Vatican's observatory as a scientist, not as a theologian. While we're on the subject, what is this involvement, if I may ask?
As per original Trek, absolutely. Ignore that "Next Generation" nonsense!
What if those aliens look nothing like man and want to destroy every other life form in the universe? Hmm...???
Read "The Killing Star" by Charles Pellegrino.
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Star-Charles-Pellegrino/dp/0380770261/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210716288&sr=8-1
But, as God is infinite in his omnipotence and omniscience, it wouldn’t be a contradiction for us to have been “created in his image” and to also have, say, the K’Oor’DooUK bible say the same thing about He/them.
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