Vatican Astronomer: Aliens Are God's Creation (May 13, 2008)

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Vatican Astronomer: Aliens Are God's Creation (May 13, 2008)

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Father Funes Interview to L'Osservatore Romano, the newsletter of the Vatican Observatory: The extraterrestrial is my brother http://padrefunes.blogspot.com/2008/05/extraterrestrial-is-my-brother.html * * * The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans. "In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets) exists," said Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict. "How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere," he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview in its Tuesday-Wednesday edition, explaining that the large number of galaxies with their own planets made this possible. Asked if he was referring to beings similar to humans or even more evolved than humans, he said: "Certainly, in a universe this big you can't exclude this hypothesis". In the interview headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother," he said he saw no conflict between belief in such beings and faith in God. "Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on earth, there can be other beings, even intelligent, created by God. This is not in contrast with our faith because we can't put limits on God's creative freedom," he said. "Why can't we speak of a 'brother extraterrestrial'? It would still be part of creation," he said. Funes, who runs the observatory which is based south of Rome and in Arizona, held out the possibility that the human race might actually be the "lost sheep" of the universe. "There could be (other beings) who remained in full friendship with their creator," he said. Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKL146364620080514?sp=true More: 2008.05.14. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jNDAezCCDKzEJpnyPFSj7IVCvwawD90KV2VG0 2008.05.14. Vatican Astronomer: Aliens Could Exist http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/375267.aspx 2008.05.14. Extra-terrestrial life is possible, Vatican astronomer says http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58428 2008.05.14. Vatican astronomer says if aliens exist, they may not need redemption http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802629.htm 2008.05.14. ET poses no problem for Vatican http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13901-et-poses-no-problem-for-vatican.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news3_head_dn13901 2008.05.13. Believing in aliens not opposed to Christianity, Vatican's top astronomer says http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12628 .

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