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I don’t see any problem.
God created the entire universe.
Libs are gleeful about this, they think it’ll make ‘our little world’ implode. But then, Libs are mostly fools, so who cares what they think.
Even if the Drake Equation is waaaay off, it still yields huge numbers of potential civilizations. I have seen nothing that I’d call convincing evidence that we’ve been visited by such, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if our civilization turned out not to be as unique as we sometimes think it is.
If I were a bettin’ man, I’d put a shiny nickel down on there being a whole passel of different kinds of folks out there. Whether or not we bump into them, is another matter.
Uh....so what? Will we never get over ourselves and realize that we are not even a microscopic speck in the Universe? Oh, how we’ve exaggerated our relevance.
Things have been jumping around the pope scope in Arizona...
Did I miss something? As far as I am aware there are no alien life forms so the theological implications are moot. I want others to explain what the theological implications are of finding no alien life forms. They would be about the same as not finding a missing link I might imagine. Ah but they are still looking!
Mel
Anyone who having casually read the bible either in part or in its entirety knows it if full of examples of extraterrestrial life.
My "self image" won't be affected one way or another. I am made in the image and likeness of God. Whether He created others in His image, He hasn't chosen to let me know yet.
Yet another click and wait and wait and wait and wait day at F.R.
Reminds me some what of when I had dial up only dial up was faster.
Participating in the press conference were Fr. Jose Funes S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory; Jonathan Lunine, professor at the department of physics in Rome's Tor Vergata University; Chris Impey, professor at the department of astronomy in the University of Arizona and the Steward Observatory, Tucson, U.S.A., and Athena Coustenis, professor at the "Observatoire de Paris-Meudon", LESIA/CNRS, France.
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or if we ever make contact with an intelligent species in the vastness of space, the implications for our self-image will be profound.” >>>
give me a break, this is a waste of time and money. God made MAN in His image, not Spaceman.