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Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible

Posted by timothy on from the well-that's-charitable-of-the-vatican dept.

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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  1. the paranoid in me says-- by way2trivial · · Score: 5, Interesting

    there is a related announcement coming soon from world leaders,
    and this pronouncement from the vatican is so that they don't bleed followers in the mayhem to follow.

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  2. Catholics by ceoyoyo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apologizing to Galileo, Hell is a metaphor, evolution is real, now aliens could exist. The Vatican is really taking their modernization seriously, aren't they?

  3. doubtful by trybywrench · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So does that mean that any intelligent alien life is doomed to hell because they don't have the benefit of baptism and the forgiveness of original sin? Did they get a messiah from the catholic god and does that imply more than one "jesus"?

    Or, being that they are not human and never ate from the garden of eaden does that mean that original sin doesn't apply to them? Better yet, does that make them more holy then humans and therefore closer to the catholic god?

    I don't see how the catholic clergy can just say "yeah alien life doesn't contradict our religeon" without addressing these questiosn.

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  4. Galileo? How about Bruno by number6x · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bruno suggested that there could be an infinite number of worlds and that they could be inhabited by intelligent life.

    For this they burned him at the stake.

    Galileo was only 'shown the instruments' of torture and placed under house arrest.

    Bruno is the guy they need to apologize to!