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The Vatican has just completed a five day conference astrobiology where scientists convened to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life. A major driving force behind the conference was the Director of the Vatican Observatory, the Jesuit priest Father Jose Gabriel Funes. In May 2008, Funes gave an interview to the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper saying that the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials posed no problems to Catholic theology. The conference itself was officially convened by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, chaired by its religious leader Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, and was held on private Vatican grounds from November 6-10. Together with Funes’ 2008 interview and subsequent public comments by him, the conference demonstrates a welcome openness by the Vatican on the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. The Vatican’s openness to discussion of extraterrestrial life is no accident. It is part of an openness policy secretly adopted by the United Nations in February 2008. In fact, the Vatican is playing a leading role in preparing the world for extraterrestrial disclosure. For most observers, the conference was an innovative scientific gathering sanctioned by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences to show the Holy See’s support for modern science in the detection of extraterrestrial life. The conference primarily focused on the detection of primitive extraterrestrial life forms, and featured presentations from nearly 30 international experts in astronomy, physics and biology. Marc Kaufman from the Washington Post reports:
Originally posted by enteri
So basically you can't believe something unless it's been verified by the Catholic church, the government or some other faction that holds power?!
Originally posted by Unknown Soldier
Hmmmm so if primitive then I take it this is not the Aliens that pilot flying saucers ? More like bacteria or some microbe like organism? What would be considered primitive one would not find alarming? Unless some upright walking natives were found living on Mars all this time?
Originally posted by ShadowLink
Originally posted by Unknown Soldier
Hmmmm so if primitive then I take it this is not the Aliens that pilot flying saucers ? More like bacteria or some microbe like organism? What would be considered primitive one would not find alarming? Unless some upright walking natives were found living on Mars all this time?
I think the church is looking for otherworldly primitive cultures so they can run to them first to promote Christianity.
You know, cramming it down everyones throats like they have been doing here on earth for centuries.