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NASA 'looks to the heavens' for help: Agency enlists 24 theologians to assess how the world would react to the discovery of alien life on distant planets and how it might change our perception of gods and creation
Daily Mail UK ^ | 12/24/2021 | By STACY LIBERATORE

Posted on 12/24/2021 2:23:46 PM PST by aimhigh

NASA is looking to the heavens for help with assessing how humans will react if alien life is found on other planets and how the discovery could impact our ideas of gods and creation. The agency is hiring 24 theologians to take part in its program at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University in New Jersey, which NASA gave a $1.1 million grant to in 2014.

CTI is described as building 'bridges of under understanding by convening theologians, scientists, scholars, and policymakers to think together - and inform public thinking - on global concerns.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: abiogenesis; aliens; astronomy; crevo; dailymail; faithandphilosophy; flatearthers; gilbertlewin; labeledrelease; mars; nasa; newjersey; princeton; princetonu; religion; science; scientism; space; stacyliberatore; ufos
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To: dfwgator

Mars Attacks....

Jack Nicholson line: “We lost Congress we still have two branches left. From where I’m sitting two out of three ain’t bad.”


81 posted on 12/24/2021 5:08:09 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: aimhigh

How about the aliens that already exist here on our planet?


82 posted on 12/24/2021 5:09:55 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: aimhigh
Now, souls are finally waking up. Homo sapiens have ignored the Biblical teachings of the Bible regarding Lucifer for much too long. Don't doubt me, there is such a thing as evil, and Lucifer and his band of warriors are again waging a counterattack on God's creation on planet earth. You are living in the time. A band of Luciferian demons - Dracos and Reptilians guided by AI - are behind an attack on planet earth and on God's creation. Fear not, God will win, as He always does. His army of angelic warriors is now waging a ferocious war off-planet and in the unseen, a war against Luciferian demons. Soon God's warriors will cast these bastards back into the dark abyss where they belong. Their surrogates here on planet earth - Globalists, NWO & Marxists - will never concede, but they too are doomed and they know it, which explains the chaos we now experience. The universal truth throughout the universe is there will always be conflict. It's an eternal struggle between good and evil - darkness and light as it was at the beginning between God and Lucifer. It started when the Devil thought he could overcome and usurp the God Almighty. Now, God's faithful need to put on the faith-based armor of the Lord and prepare to wage the latest battle against evil, which has cast its spell over all the planet. Rather than succumb to this evil, let us commit this Christmas Eve to die if necessary in faithful service to our Lord to help him win this current battle to preserve His creation, His humanity. What a time to witness, what a time to be alive and wage holy battle for the glory of God. May the Good Lord's peace that defies all understanding be with you now and always.
83 posted on 12/24/2021 5:10:01 PM PST by iontheball
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To: aimhigh

Question.... How much time passed between Genesis 1:1-2 and what was God doing?


84 posted on 12/24/2021 5:10:10 PM PST by topfile
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

RE: Alex Jones reads the globalist’s white papers and the next phase of their great reset is an alien invasion hoax to terrorize the useful idiots.</i>

Now it is all coming clear. Leave it to Jones to have the clear thinking to analyze complex situations and bring us sober and rational thinking.

But the way things are going, who knows?


85 posted on 12/24/2021 5:11:45 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: GingisK

May be above my pay grade. But very likely, do your own research on the world before the flood and the future like the days of Noah. Per the Bible, God always tells us what he is going to do, through the prophets. This is one of those cases. It is not unexpected.


86 posted on 12/24/2021 5:12:02 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: D Rider

Yeah? Show me book/chapter/verse, please.


87 posted on 12/24/2021 5:13:35 PM PST by GingisK
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To: aimhigh

So they get a grant for that?

By the way, there is a nonfiction book by the Catholic who monitors and reports to the Vatican:

Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: ... and Other Questions from the Astronomers’ In-Box at the Vatican Observatory
by Guy Consolmagno
Part of synopsis:

In May 2014, Pope Francis revealed that, if Martians wanted to be baptized, he would welcome aliens to the Church. Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno and science historian Father Paul Mueller agree! ....sheds provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet. .... And exactly how do you reconcile the scientific version of The Big Bang with....


88 posted on 12/24/2021 5:16:10 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

They told us what they were going to do to us in Event 201, but Einsteins like you didn’t believe them.

https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/


89 posted on 12/24/2021 5:16:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

RE: They told us what they were going to do to us in Event 201, but Einsteins like you didn’t believe them.
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Oh, no. It’s Christmas Eve and you’re insulting me for being a non Eistein?

Do you mean to insult me for saying something on the other thread which was critical of Alex Jones’ theories?

I’m trying to remain calm but do you also mean I am close to the idea of space aliens? Not true.
Please let me know.


90 posted on 12/24/2021 5:21:31 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

meant to say “closed to the idea of space aliens? Not true.”
Typo.


91 posted on 12/24/2021 5:22:42 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: GingisK

Do your own research, there is plenty of material out there for you to research. In the last two years the world has aligned in such a way that the end times as described in scripture is right upon us. My suggestion is to be skeptical and dig into the material available to you. Surprising discoveries are in store for you, if you do.


92 posted on 12/24/2021 5:23:26 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: cgbg
Oh oh, its me again. ;-D

From that article:
It has been speculated that, of all groups, scientists and engineers might be the most devastated by the discovery of relatively superior creatures, since these professions are most clearly associated with the mastery of nature, rather than with the understanding and expression of man. Advanced understanding of nature might vitiate all our theories at the very least, if not also require a culture and perhaps a brain inaccessible to Earth scientists.

When I was working in Huntsville in 1973 there was a report in the news about two men in Pascagoula Mississippi who got picked up by a UFO and subjected to medical examinations. Both men were traumatized. What surprised me was how work stopped around the MSFC while this was discussed. There was a consensus that chemical rockets were rather disappointing when compared to whatever that thing used for transport. It was a serious "downer" for those guys.

Pascagoula UFO

93 posted on 12/24/2021 5:35:08 PM PST by GingisK
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To: aimhigh

I believe there is other life out in the universe. And if “they” ever visit the believers will be traumatized when they find out we are not unique and that they do not have a “religion”. The arrogance that says we are the only life in the universe is amazing. Aliens are not going to be fallen angels, minons of satan or some other explanation by those who believe we are “it” as far as life in the universe goes. I’d luv to see their faces, if they have any, when someone tries preaching to them about Christian beliefs. If they are smart enough to cross light years to visit here then they are waaaaay beyond our limited intellectual understanding as we currently perceive “life” and it’s existence as it would apply to the universe.

Flame me all you want but one cannot look at the stars and not wonder where other civilizations exist.


94 posted on 12/24/2021 5:36:48 PM PST by Bassfisher2022
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Thomas Campbell, one of the founders of the Churches of Christ, once said, “Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent.” While the Bible speaks of humans and angels, including fallen angels, it is silent relative to the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Nor can the issue by good and necessary consequence be deduced from Scripture.


95 posted on 12/24/2021 5:36:48 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I got confused. I thought you were making fun of the fact that I told about the Catholic astronomer (in Arizona) with a Vatican built and funded observatory who is watching for something they do not discuss.

You were defending Alex Jones for saying the globalists plan to confuse people with a major space invasion story strategy.
Thanks for the link. I now remember the story.

I’m sorry if I looked like a fool to you.


96 posted on 12/24/2021 5:36:49 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: GingisK

God set up the Universe so life would be here. That does NOT mean that life could be anywhere else. No way to tell unless we go out there and find it.

Personally, I think that in a Finite Universe (Religion and Science agree that there was a start) someone HAS to be first. We are here, ergo, without other proof, we are it.

I’ll wait for the proof before I agree that there is other civilizations out there.


97 posted on 12/24/2021 5:37:35 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: D Rider
Butt head, I've been through the Bible a number of times; yet, I have never seen anything that leads me to your conclusions. I would like to know how YOU came to YOUR conclusions.

You remind me of those assholes on Linux help forums.

98 posted on 12/24/2021 5:37:40 PM PST by GingisK
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To: frank ballenger

I am pretty confused about what we were each referring to at this point. 😁

I thought you were insulting Alex Jones.

Since that’s not what you were doing, I apologize.


99 posted on 12/24/2021 5:47:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really sorry.

If only Gray Beaver (Elizabeth Warren) could give us a peace pipe we could be FRiends again as we should always be.

Merry Christmas to you and yours and God bless you.


100 posted on 12/24/2021 5:53:52 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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