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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. astronomer my asshole. by nawcom · · Score: 0, Troll
    Jesus Christ on a cross.

    Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astrologer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

    There, fixed.

  2. Re:Mythbusters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mythbusters would be a good start; there's certainly been no word from God. In fact, it has been His deafening silence after the tsunami that drowned thousands of innocent children (and now the earthquake in China), that finalized both my disbelief in a supreme being and my hatred for the Catholic church.

    And don't give me any of that "not ours to understand..." crap. Your god's a farce.

  3. Re:Mythicalbusts by Steve+Franklin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reached by satellite phone, God is quoted as saying, "The existence of the pope does not prove the reality of extraterrestrial life, but it does go a long way in that direction." Asked to comment about the pope's reported Nazi past, God assured the interviewer that the case was still open and would be brought up in any attempt to canonize "Herr Schnitzel, er, his holiness."

    --
    Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus.
  4. Re:Finaly! by AK+for+Global+Warmin · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know in what school you studied biology, but ask for you money back! Evolution is a fact? It is called the Theory of Evolution, not the Fact of Evolution.