Posted on Jul 31, 2015
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The Pope doesn't believe it will disprove the existence of God. I suspect he's read my book.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/vatican-astronomer-says-alien-life-will-be-discovered-but-will-not-prove-or-disprove-god-126813/
http://www.christianpost.com/news/vatican-astronomer-says-alien-life-will-be-discovered-but-will-not-prove-or-disprove-god-126813/
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Honestly, I'm kinda hoping that aliens arrive and tell us those folks over on the History Channel had it right the whole time.
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Hi, Lieutenant Colonel Ross.
I think we’ve come very close to proving the existence of alien life. Scientists announced in 1996 that the Allen Hills meteorite found in Antarctica in 1984 might contain fossils of Martian bacteria, based on observable carbonate globules. It might be a bit of a leap, but the idea of extraterrestrial life, albeit bacterial and long dead, isn’t a big one.
We can presume, then, that God created the environment for life to exist in some form throughout the universe, but created Earth to harbor life in His Image.
I think we’ve come very close to proving the existence of alien life. Scientists announced in 1996 that the Allen Hills meteorite found in Antarctica in 1984 might contain fossils of Martian bacteria, based on observable carbonate globules. It might be a bit of a leap, but the idea of extraterrestrial life, albeit bacterial and long dead, isn’t a big one.
We can presume, then, that God created the environment for life to exist in some form throughout the universe, but created Earth to harbor life in His Image.
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Actually, I don't believe that proving the existence of intelligent life forms on other planets (or any life form on other planets) will affect the debate in any way. It will however greatly upset those who believe that God created the universe just for the amusement of his "pets" on this planet. Of far more interest to me will be "their" opinions about God. Will they have none, have some "alien" view of God, or generally agree with ours (after all, we have such a great variety, I suspect that one could find a similarity between theirs and ours)
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We only have to look to the stars to see that we are all Stardust. We are teh physical representation of the divine on this planet, whatever that means to you. According to some scholars God is a being full of Wrath and Vengeance, others believe that God is the embodiment of Love. There are 72 sacred names of God that predates any bible or Christian Dogma. The earth is over 3 million years old, to think that we were created on in the last 5,000 years seems uneducated and ignorant. To think we are alone in this galaxy, let alone the Universe is sheer folly. God/Universe/Source/Goddess/Allah/Isis it all refers to the same thing, the divine spark that unites all of us. If God turns out to be an advanced Alien civilization...that doesn't make it any less divine to us.
This could spark a huge debate, but I'll close to simply say, embrace your personal spirituality, not someone else's view of a dogmatic religion.Â
This could spark a huge debate, but I'll close to simply say, embrace your personal spirituality, not someone else's view of a dogmatic religion.Â
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If this is a "serious" question, then no - first of all, there is great speculation that earth's cousin (which is 11 million years away with today's technology and may not even be there when we get there) even exists or could support "human" life, but who cares - to me, there is a greater probability that "life" exists on some other planet that is not like earth and the "life" is not "human".
In ANY case, it has nothing to do with whether or not God exists - all of us will know this as a fact one day, but probably not while existing on this planet.
A better question might be - are you ready to find out if God exists?
In ANY case, it has nothing to do with whether or not God exists - all of us will know this as a fact one day, but probably not while existing on this planet.
A better question might be - are you ready to find out if God exists?
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LTC Ed Ross
Here are the full links: http://ewross.com/transplants.htm and the original story at http://www.christianpost.com/news/vatican-astronomer-says-alien-life-will-be-discovered-but-will-not-prove-or-disprove-god-126813/
Vatican sceptical about close encounters of the third kind
The recent discovery of an Earth twin has boosted chances there is intelligent life on other planets. On a leafy hilltop near the papal summer home of Castel Gandolfo sits the Vatican's Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, where planetary scientists mix the study of meteorites and the Big Bang theory with theology. Boasting a prestigious research centre at the University of Arizona in the United...
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