Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Surely everyone has seen this story already from yesterday....

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans.

"In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets) exists," said Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict....

In the interview headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother," he said he saw no conflict between belief in such beings and faith in God....



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