Re: Vatican scientist says OK to believe in aliens and God

[Guest guest]

Thanks , Its hard to tell what the motives of the Vatican

are, because its such a corrupt entity. There is some indication

that the lid may soon be blown off the UFO cover up, and I am sure

the church is going to want to retain its power over the flock. The

U.S. Govt. is in the same boat......they want to be darn sure, that

if the public becomes more informed on ET's, its done in a way that

keeps the same old controlling institutions in power. I will

have much more respect for the Vatican- when they stop oppressing

their people with ridiculous rules and rituals that having nothing to

do with true spirituality! signed, Mastiel National director

W.P.J.W.H.S (we priests just wanna have sex)...club

>

> Hi Everyone....just passing this on. Thought it was interesting!

> Many blessings,

>

> Vatican scientist says OK to believe in aliens and God

> By Philip Pullella

> Tue May 13, 11:48 PM ET

>

> VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there

is

> no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of

> intelligent life on other planets that is perhaps even more

evolved

> than humans.

>

> " In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets)

exists, "

> said Rev. 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 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. "

>

> But, 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.

>

> The Vatican Observatory is one of the world's oldest astronomical

> institutes. As early as the end of the 1700s, three Vatican-

sponsored

> observatories were studying the stars from Rome, and in 1891 Pope

Leo

> XIII formally established the Vatican Observatory inside the

Vatican

> behind St 's dome.

>

> By 1935, Rome's urban sprawl made stargazing difficult, so Pius XI

> moved the observatory to the summer palace south of Italy's

capital.

> Since 1981, the principal observing site has been the Vatican's

> research institute in Tucson, Arizona.

>

> Funes, an Argentine, said he believed as an astronomer that the

most

> likely explanation for the start of the universe was " the big

bang, "

> the theory that it sprang into existence from dense matter

billions

> of years ago.

>

> But he said this was not in conflict with faith in God as a

creator.

> " God is the creator. There is a sense to creation. We are not

> children of an accident ..., " he said.

>

> " As an astronomer, I continue to believe that God is the creator

of

> the universe and that we are not the product of something casual

but

> children of a good father who has a project of love in mind for

us, "

> he said.

>