Rev. John Hagee and his friends are going to be PISSED!

[MrScorpio]

Vatican says aliens could exist
By David Willey
BBC News, Rome

The Pope's chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled out.

Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world.

The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God.

The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Aliens Are My Brother'.

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Science and religion need each other, and many astronomers believe in God, he assures readers.

To strengthen its scientific credentials, the Vatican is organising a conference next year to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author of the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7399661.stm

Fundies are always out to disprove scientific data as it relates to biblical text. The Catholic Church, long burned from its anti-scientfic positions of the past are at least keeping an open mind.

Fundies like Hagee will use that position to further the schism.

[stevedeshazer]

1. Aren't these people the same ones who threatened Copernicus?

Progress after 500 years, I guess.

[Cresent City Kid]

2. Strange but true

For most of their history, the Catholic church was anti-science. Somewhere along the way, they tried to mesh their doctrine with the truths gleaned from scientific endeavor. The Big Bang is not only accepted by the Catholic church, the idea was first proposed by a priest using Einstein's equations in 1927.

Today it is only the Christian fundamentalists who cling to the original belief in the 6000-year-old universe, at least among Christians. Protestantism went 2 ways, some thought the Catholics were too fundamentalist, some thought they weren't fundamentalist enough.