Vatican Sez Aliens Could Exist - So Where's That Leave Humans in Great Scheme ?
B1ackwater
The Pope's chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled
out.
Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel
Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer
space.
Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a
respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the
world.
The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not
contradict belief in God.
The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Aliens Are My
Brother'.
'Free from sin'
Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could
exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some
aliens could even be free from original sin, he speculates.
Asked about the Catholic Church's condemnation four centuries ago of
the Italian astronomer and physicist, Galileo, Father Funes
diplomatically says mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the
page and look towards the future.
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"Mistakes were made" ....
Anyway, this is a major reversal from the HRCCs old
"Earth is the center of the universe" position. No
special reason their gawd would have mentioned OTHER
creations to primitive sheepherders I suppose ...
However, after millenia of anthropomania, where does
it leave humanity if we're really NOT all so "special"
to cozmik creator-being things - merely Model #277381
out of five billion and seven models ? Would humans
have to take a number to get into Valhalla, share
the sauna with tentacled Ood, giant blue crab-things
and Mormons ??? Did Jeezus let the Romans catch him
because he was already late getting to his next gig
as a horrible gelatinous blob-being on Altair-4 ???
Methinks the most revered astronomer has opened a
theological can of worms :-)
meg
Are you an alien?
lora...@cs.com
For all we know Blackwater could be.. 'giant blue crab things' seems
like insider information..
PS: It's a pretty sure bet that microbial life -at least- does (did?)
exist on Mars. A previous scientific experiment (before NASA quit
sending (or reporting) biological testing equipment) already proved
that.
B1ackwater
wrote:
As no two humans, even "identical" twins, have EXACTLY
the same DNA and expression therof ... who could tell
who's 'people' and who's 'alien' ? There's no "standard
human" to use as a reference measure or agreement as
to WHAT should be measured.
B1ackwater
>On May 14, 10:24=A0am, meg <ekrub...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 14, 5:17 am, b...@barrk.net (B1ackwater) wrote:
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>> > BBC
>> > The Pope's chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled
>> > out.
>>
>> > Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel
>> > Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer
>> > space.
>>
>> > Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a
>> > respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the
>> > world.
>>
>> > The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not
>> > contradict belief in God.
>>
>> > The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Aliens Are My
>> > Brother'.
>>
>> > 'Free from sin'
>>
>> > Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could
>> > exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some
>> > aliens could even be free from original sin, he speculates.
>>
>> > Asked about the Catholic Church's condemnation four centuries ago of
>> > the Italian astronomer and physicist, Galileo, Father Funes
>> > diplomatically says mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the
>> > page and look towards the future.
>>
>> > - - - - -
>>
>> > =A0 =A0"Mistakes were made" ....
>>
>> > =A0 =A0Anyway, this is a major reversal from the HRCCs old
>> > =A0 =A0"Earth is the center of the universe" position. No
>> > =A0 =A0special reason their gawd would have mentioned OTHER
>> > =A0 =A0creations to primitive sheepherders I suppose ...
>>
>> > =A0 =A0However, after millenia of anthropomania, where does
>> > =A0 =A0it leave humanity if we're really NOT all so "special"
>> > =A0 =A0to cozmik creator-being things - merely Model #277381
>> > =A0 =A0out of five billion and seven models ? Would humans
>> > =A0 =A0have to take a number to get into Valhalla, share
>> > =A0 =A0the sauna with tentacled Ood, giant blue crab-things
>> > =A0 =A0and Mormons ??? Did Jeezus let the Romans catch him
>> > =A0 =A0because he was already late getting to his next gig
>> > =A0 =A0as a horrible gelatinous blob-being on Altair-4 ???
>>
>> > =A0 =A0Methinks the most revered astronomer has opened a
>> > =A0 =A0theological can of worms =A0:-)
>>
>> Are you an alien?
>
>For all we know Blackwater could be.. 'giant blue crab things' seems
>like insider information..
I'm not at liberty to discuss .....
>PS: It's a pretty sure bet that microbial life -at least- does (did?)
>exist on Mars. A previous scientific experiment (before NASA quit
>sending (or reporting) biological testing equipment) already proved
>that.
Not really ... they proved that adding some chemicals to
the dirt made it "fizz" in a manner SIMILAR to earthly
germ-laden dirt. However, subsequently, it's been said
that less interesting chemistry could have been responsible.
Have any subsequent probes carried high-power microscopes ?
I don't recall ... maybe not. IF not, WHY not ?
I also worry about just how life-generating planets may
BE across the universe. 5 billion years and it seems we've
only had ONE kind of life on earth ... it's probably all
spawned from a single successful proto-cell. If planets
were really "fertile", we ought to see evidence of many
OTHER kinds of life, different genetics, radically
different physiologies - clearly "different stuff" from
all the monkeys and yeasts and alligators and ameobas and
aardvarks and such.
Yea, maybe they ONCE existed, but SO long ago that little or
no record remains. Still, life adapts ... so you'd have
expected at least SOME of the 'alternatives' to persist.
This "one planet, one germline" thing ... NOT very promising
for Mars or anywhere else. Just ONE microscopic misstep and
OUR germline wouldn't have made it either.