http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091110/tsc-vatican-searches-for-extra-terrestri-c2...Well, it seems all these Vatican people met yesterday, and they said it's perfectly okay to look for aliens, indeed, to look for life elsewhere. They deem all life 'special' according to the article. Maybe if we're all lookin' we'll find some.
from article:
"The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the chief papal astronomer, Father Jose Gabriel Funes.
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The Jesuit priest broached the question of extraterrestrial life in an interview last year, when he said the search for aliens did not contradict belief in God.
"As an astronomer I continue to believe that God is the creator of the universe," Funes told the Vatican mouthpiece, the Osservatore Romano.
The possibility raises a difficult theological question concerning redemption from the original sin, which by Christian tradition occurred in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of a particular tree.
Funes told the Osservatore Romano: "If other intelligent beings exist, it's not certain that they need redemption."
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Hmmn, maybe this is going to take some time. After all, we're not sure whether they 'need redemption' or not. Sounds like a job for.....anyone's guess.