To: NKP_Vet
Anyone who’s been conscious and paying attention the last 30 or 40 years knows that the Vatican admits extraterrestrial life is possible. It also expresses a belief in the Big Bang theory.
15 posted on
04/08/2014 12:52:11 PM PDT by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Telepathic Intruder
It also expresses a belief in the Big Bang theory.
Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest, is considered the father of the Big Bang Theory.
To: Telepathic Intruder; NKP_Vet
It is not, has never been, and never will be, a religious doctrine of the Catholic Church --- one way or the other --- for the simple reason that it's not part of the deposit of faith and morals which has been handed on to us from the Apostles. It's simply not theology. It's exobiology.
So the Catholic Church cannot, properly speaking, "admit" or "deny" or "declare" or "rebut" anything about ET life. For that, you'd be well advised to consult an exobiologist.
(Investigating moral duties towards ET life --- such as, defining/detecting personhood --- is of course a related, but identical question.
26 posted on
04/08/2014 1:04:59 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("The Holy Catholic Church: the more Holy she is, the more Catholic she is.")
To: Telepathic Intruder
“It also expresses a belief in the Big Bang theory”
What evil looks in the minds of those Catholics? Tune in to Ancient Secrets of the Vatican to find out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
“For the believer, it removes any attempt at familiarity with God… It is consonant with Isaiah speaking of the hidden God, hidden even in the beginning of the universe.”
Father Georges Lemaître, and “father” of the Big Bang Theory
45 posted on
04/08/2014 1:53:09 PM PDT by
NKP_Vet
("It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died;we should thank God that such men lived" ~ Patton)
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