BIBLE FULL OF EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS! - FATHER RODERICK
AND, ET COULD BE OUR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL BROTHER
WHAT ABOUT ALIENS
'What about aliens?' is he question he gets all the time when he gives talks on his work with the Vatican Observatory. In his book Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, brother Consolmagno recalls
a story in The Weekly World News, 'headlined 'Missionaries for Mars!
Vatican Training Astro-Priests to Spread Gospel to Space Aliens!'
And deep down, I suspect some people think that's what the Vatican Observatory
is really all about.
'There is nothing in Holy Scripture that could confirm or contradict the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere
in the universe,' writes Consolmagno in
Intelligent Life in the Universe - Catholic belief and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life
'God created the whole universe'. There's nothing that makes one place more special than another. Religious people have been able to think in these 'cosmic' terms all along, and happily speculated about 'other worlds' long before the science fiction crowd had adopted the concept.' Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist.
THE FUN OF THINKING
Consolmagno told CNS that he tries to show 'the fun of thinking' about what it would mean if God had created more than life on Earth. Such speculation 'is very worthwhile
if it makes us reflect on things we do know and have taken for granted,' he said.
He said asking such questions as 'Would aliens have souls?' or 'Does the salvation of Christ apply to them?' helps one 'appreciate what it means for us to have a soul' and helps one better 'recognize what the salvation of Christ means to us.'
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E.T. COULD BE OUR EXTRATERRESTRIAL BROTHER
It is possible that intelligent life exists on other planets besides earth. Jesuit director of the Vatican observatory, Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, said this in an interview in the Vatican's newspaper 'Osservatore Romano'.
Their existence would not contradict Catholic faith, according to Funes.
After all, these aliens would still be part of God's creation.
In the interview, Funes also talks about the theory of the Big Bang, and about creation and evolution.
Because most media only give us snippets of Fr. Funes' answers, I have translated the parts
of the interview about the Big Bang and about the possibility of extraterrestrial life:
or contradict the belief that is based on the
Biblical account of creation?
As an astronomer, I continue to believe that God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance, but the children of a good father, who has a loving plan for us. The Bible is fundamentally not a science book. Dei Verbum stressed that it's the book of God's word addressed to us men. It's a love letter that God wrote to his people, in a language that is two or three thousand years old. At that time a concept like that of the Big Bang was of course unknown. So we can't ask the Bible for a scientific answer. At the same time, we don't know whether in a near or distant future, the theory of the Big Bang will be replaced by a more exhaustive and complete explanation of the origin of the universe.
Right now, it's the best theory, and it's not contradicting faith. It's reasonable.
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Posted by Atrueoriginall at 6/24/2008 10:24 AM 
Categories: Father Roderick, Aliens, Vatican, astonomy, extraterrestrials
Categories: Father Roderick, Aliens, Vatican, astonomy, extraterrestrials
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