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To: stfassisi
Good post,Mark. Besides,if there was another form of intellectual life equal or grater than us it would seem to put them in a class of something other than "made in the image of God",thus making them either animals,angels or demons.

I have seen nothing more concrete than the fascination of some people to a speculative subject. Some of the greatest thinkers in world history had some odd quirks. Sir Isaac Newton, by the accounts I have read, was barking mad on occasion.

They certainly would not be descendants of Adam and Eve unless they had technology to travel to other planets. There is no logical proof of this either

I'm not particularly worried about it. I don't believe that we will have any answers in our lifetimes anyway.

139 posted on 07/10/2010 2:16:14 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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The whole ET topic makes no sense to me because why would God even need to make ET’s after he created humans in his image and likeness and angels and all the other animals.

If there are ET’s they would be animals(I don’t believe there is) and we humans would have dominion over them(genesis 1) like all the other animals that might even show up on earth.

Saint Thomas Aquinas said the following brilliantly since it makes NO sense for intelligent life beyond this earth to exist in a form equal to man

“no agent intends a material plurality as an end; because a material multitude does not have a fixed term, but of itself tends to infinity; infinity, however, is contrary to the notion of ‘end’. When it is said, however, that many worlds are better than one, this is said according the material multitude. This sort of better, however, does not belong to the intention of God as agent, because for the same reason it could be said that if he made two, it would be better that there were three; and thus ad infinitum.”-Saint Thomas Aquinas

I wonder if people who believe in intellectual ET’s that are not animals believe that Christ came to the ET planet to die for them like he did us?


149 posted on 07/10/2010 3:46:02 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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