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Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible
An anonymous reader writes "According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an article titled 'Aliens Are My Brother' that intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. 'The search for forms of extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. — Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God.' Mind that this is not the same director who said that evolution is more than a mere theory — that was Father Coyne. I myself agree. There might be intelligent beings created by God in outer space even if there are none here on earth."
Well if C.S.Lewis AND the Pope say there's intelligent life out there, then it *must* be true!
what the Catholic church says about anything? I am at a complete loss why, in the year 2008, anyone takes seriously anything these purveyors of bullshit say. And let's face it, most of the Church's teachings have been soundly rejected by the civilized world. Contraception is evil? Oh, and overpopulation isn't? Divorce is wrong? Well, except for Princess Di and no less than Mother Teresa said so. The civilized world has embraced equal rights for women while the Catholic church remains the leading vanguard of the "barefoot-and-pregnant" school.
I'm sure the Xtian mods will bury this comment. The truth hurts, doesn't it?
...the existence of God is NOT.
Circumcision is child abuse.
If he had any sort of plan laid out, your request (or lack thereof) would make no difference whatsoever.
No, because the context "the boss" operates under includes you, and the self-definition that occurs from the interaction you dismiss. Even if the boss knows what you want, and when you could receive it, it's still necessary for you to -be that person- of someone pursuing the job. Many, many, such cases of God knowing the outcome beforehand, but involving a person for the purpose of helping define that person, are described by theism's defining documents. So much so you could hardly miss the point--unless you tried very hard to, and in that respect I don't want to dissuade you too much from your Natural Deselection that you want. Short-term, though, I suggest not actually trying it with any managers you may have--"Since you already know how good I am, just put me in the top position now, so I don't have to bother trying in any way, or demonstrating anything skill-wise, or learning the specifics of how to demonstrate anything". Probably wouldn't work particularly well, practically speaking.
As far as the "no internal logic", well, okay, just directly, knowingly lie then. Desperate as it obviously is to dismiss specific, clear, cogent arguments with a universal dismissal of all possible arguments in a domain you don't like, I'll just sign off comfortable that I know you're simply lying, as you're already perfectly clear on yourself.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?