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• Vatican: It's OK to Believe in Aliens
• The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
  

  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…

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  So.. I'm confused, did the aliens live with us when we were tromping around on dinosaurs?

  The Vatican does not claim that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. In fact, the Vatican has no quarrel with evolution.

  Vatican information is free, but scientology charges hundreds of thousands of dollars to allow alien beliefs…

  Thanks for telling me what to think.

  This made me think of Richard Feynman's quote:
  Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers ' because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers! I said “I don't think there are flying saucers'. So my antagonist said, “Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?” “No”, I said, “I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely”. At that he said, “You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?” But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. To define what I mean, I might have said to him, “Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.” It is just more likely. That is all. - Feynman
  Though it is reasonable to think that there's other life, but having outer life visit us is extremely unreasonable.

  IMO believing that there is no life anywhere in the universe apart from on earth, regardless of your religious beliefs, is crazy.
  When people ask me if I believe in aliens the answer is I do, I cannot believe that in all that space there is no life anywhere. Whether aliens have ever come to earth is another thing altogether though…

  I, for one, welcome our new alien saviors.

  Whew! what a relief! < please note sarcasm> I could have almost/maybe swallowed that aliens might exist. But why did he have to add that part about "extraterrestial brothers". whatever. Also,how can someone believe in the big bang theory and that God crea

  Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom, he said.

  VATICAN CITY - 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.
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  The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican

  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.

  Whoa, Catholics now cleared to believe in aliens? Whoa