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."

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Re:Might be life?

[JeanPaulBob]

Doesn't the Pope have direct communication with god?

Um... No, actually. Catholics think he is infallible when he speaks "ex cathedra", but not that he has verbal back-and-forth communication with God.

Re:Catholics

[gnick]

Considering ... the Pope's alleged Hitler Youth past... What's alleged about it? Germany made participation mandatory and the Pope complied. Does anyone in the church deny that?

Re:Finaly!

[Cajun Hell]

There are two main theories groups that attempt to explain the creation of the Universe and the origin of life and humanity.

Group 1. Big Bang & Evolution. Essentially this version says, it all just happened, mostly by accident but with the amount of time and mass involved it was inevitable.

Bzzt, wrong. Group 1 knows the origin of humanity, but doesn't make any strong statements about the origin of life in general, or the origin of the universe. Group 1 merely says that Evolution and the Big Bang obviously happened. Group 1 also says they don't know what happened before that. They can't make any statements about origins, because there isn't any information to work with.

They keep making speculations about origins (particularly with life, since even though it's hard, it's a lot easier than the universe) but there's no consensus or unity. When scientists talk about origins, they're not a "group" at all, except that they're all saying, "Oh yeah? Show me why you think that" to the one who just advanced the speculation.

Re:Finaly!

[geekoid]

DOn't confuse evolution with the creation of the universe. two different things.
Evolution has FACTS, falsifiable test, and makes predictions.
Evolution is a fact, it's been proven. There is not scientific argument against it, only people saying it isn't so and lying about it, and refusing to look at any recent evidence.

The creation of the universe is another matter; however they go bacl very close to befor the first second with some very good science. What caused the big bang? Don't know.

neither of these prove or disprove the existence of God, only that the current Biblical interpretation probably isn't literal. Something almost every theologeon will tell you, btw.

If you look at the hebrew, the word interpreted to 'Day' didn't not mean a 24 hours day.
So even in the oldest context, Evolution fits fine with the Bible.
Considering the science is very good, and there are mountains of fact it is obvious that 6 days is not literal as we know a day.

Yes, the origins of life on the planets is pretty well known. Primordial soup and all that.