Vatican: Aliens Are Part of Creation
A belief in alien life doesn't contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes revealed in a recent interview. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation," he said.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation."
In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom, he said.
The interview, headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother," covered a variety of topics including the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and science, and the theological implications of the existence of alien life.
Funes said science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion, touching on a theme of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made exploring the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.
The Bible "is not a science book," Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most "reasonable" explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.
But he said he continues to believe that "God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance."
Funes urged the church and the scientific community to leave behind divisions caused by Galileo's persecution 400 years ago, saying the incident has "caused wounds."
In 1633 the astronomer was tried as a heretic and forced to recant his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.
"The church has somehow recognized its mistakes," he said. "Maybe it could have done it better, but now it's time to heal those wounds and this can be done through calm dialogue and collaboration."
Pope John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension."
The Vatican Observatory has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world's best.
The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has a summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.
ReBuilding Iraq How Do You Like This Kind Of Building Bush Style ?
Previous lead stories: A fraud bigger than Madoff --Senior US soldiers investigated over missing Iraq 'reconstruction' billions 16 Feb 2009 In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, Were You Ever Curious About Those Plane Loads Of Pallets Of 100 Dollar Bills ? American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to 'reconstruct' Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may exceed $50bn, making it an even bigger theft than Bernard Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme. In one case, auditors working for SIGIR discovered that $57.8m was sent in "pallet upon pallet of hundred-dollar bills" to the US comptroller for south-central Iraq, Robert J Stein Jr, who had himself photographed standing with the mound of money.
Tell Me These Guys Never Got Carried Away With This Money Laying Around Looking For Something To Spend It On.
Now He Is Elected What Now ? Lets See
Do You Think Obama Is Caving In To The Rich Corporate Elite Already ?
Remember At so many campaign speeches the people making over 250,000 Dollars A Year we finally going to pay their share of taxes right ? No More Riding on the apron strings of Bushes Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Right ?
This Just In :Obama Expands And Extends Bushes Tax Cuts For The Wealthy ! Yes You Read That Right.
Is Barack Obama Giving In To The Corporate Rich Already
Even Before He Is Sworn In ?
Or Is This A Tactic To Speed The Recovery of our economy ?
Do You Trust Obama To Follow With The Campaign Promises ?
A New Begining Starts Now , Horrible Past Flies Off To Texas
I Just Finished watching The inauguration Of President
Barack Obama Our Great Countries New President.
I Really felt Alot of emotion and like many people alot of different feelings at the same time.
A Great Feeling of hope, Hope that This Man Can lead our country back to, The Place Of Dignity And Respect The Rest Of The World Rightfully Took Away From Us In The Last 8 Years, The Trust Of Leadership, And The Fair Treatment Of Mankind That Has Been Squandered, For The Almighty Dollar . Benefits Only Seen By The Pure Evil Greed Of A Few members of a truly Self Serving Group Of Elite Criminals To The Likes This Planet Has Ever Seen.
Right up to the last days, The Former Administration Openly Robbed The Rest of world of every thing of any value they could possibly reach. To The Extent We May Never Fully Get A Grasp Of.
From Out Right Murder Of Thousands Of People in New York On 911, To Slaughter Of Millions Of Iraqi Innocent People.
The Blatant Removal Of Our Own Constitutional Bill Of Rights. Wiretapping The U.S. Citizens At Will. Outing Of A C.I.A. Agent, Illegal Imprisonment Of Who Knows How Many
Humans around The World In Secret Prisons Ran In Darkness. Granting Immunity To Partners in crime.
Cargo Planes Full Of 100 Dollar Bills go missing in Iraq.
Granting More Power To Criminal Partners In Banks And Credit Card Companies, Allowing Them To Put A Tighter Strangle Hold On Our Citizens. Adding to the end result of thousands of home fore closers not seen in nearly 75 years.
The De Humanization of thousands of Muslim Prisoners
In Abu Gar-ab And Many Other Illegal Detention Centers Around The Globe.
The Stripping Of Basic Health Care For Millions Of American Children Right Here At Home.
And Too Make This Only Partial List Of Deeds Possible,
The Outright Stealing Of Two Presidential Elections, Right Under Our Noses.
But I Hold Out A Feeling Of Hope, Hope There Is A Complete and Accurate Flushing Of The Bad Apples In Our High Offices, And People Of Power,
And Doubtful But Hopeful Prosecution, Of ALL Of The Guilty Party`s Involved In This Scandal Ridden Administration.
Hope That The Quest For A New Beginning, Does Not Over Shadow The Need For The Truth, And Punishment Of The Responsible party`s For High Crimes Against Our Country And The Rest Of The World.
If These Crimes Go Unpunished That In Itself Will Be A Crime.
U P D A T E
Well its now 2012 and our new President has been up to this point a major disappointment. In my honest opinion anyway.
Not Much different than the Republican before him.
So many broken promises, Where do I start? Right after he got started, he did not remove the spying that goes on on our own citizens, That the Bush before him installed.
Escalated the afghan war, He Did stop the Iraq war (kinda)
He caved in to not closing Guantanamo Cuba prison.
He signed and installed the most damaging loss of American rights on record,
When he signed the bill allowing any American Citizen to be deemed a terrorist against our own country for little offenses like simple protesting, and to be jailed indefinitely without reason, proof, or even a trial.
He has signed bills allowing the U.S. military to use deadly force against our own citizens, on our own soil.
He gave permission for the staffing of fema camps, or concentration type of prisons to hold rebellious citizens of the U.S.A.
He has repeatedly refused to look into the huge crimes of the Bush administration relating to 911, and other outrageous acts carried out by his administration.
He has refused to investigate the banking industry for obvious crimes against homeowners and investors. In the largest heist in the planets history.
Where millions of American home owners lost their homes and investors lost billions of dollars , thru wall street`s back handed deals.
The killing of innocent civilians in foreign countries by using drone aircraft to carry out murders in those countries.
Has failed to establish more balanced trade tariffs as promised to fix the unbalanced import- export of goods into this country causing great job loss.
Has not stopped the backroom deals with lobbyist and our lawmakers in buying laws to suit big business.
Has not created thousands of jobs as promised repairing our crumbling infra structure.
This is only a small taste of what has gone on since Obama took office, Much of it is really bad for Americans and Alot of it is Worse than that.
And he wants to be re elected.......
We All Know Court Fines And Lawyer Fees Cause A Huge Strain Onm The Family Budget, And We Do Not Condone Illegal Activity.
But You Must Protect Yourselfs At All Times From Any Threats No Matter Where They Come From, Just Like Auto Insurance You Must Be Protected.
You Will Be Glad You Did
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