Vatican goes on huge membership drive!

SlyPokerDog · Nov 11, 2009

VATICAN CITY — E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

"The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.

Funes said the possibility of alien life raises "many philosophical and theological implications" but added that the gathering was mainly focused on the scientific perspective and how different disciplines can be used to explore the issue.

Chris Impey, an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona, said it was appropriate that the Vatican would host such a meeting.

"Both science and religion posit life as a special outcome of a vast and mostly inhospitable universe," he told a news conference Tuesday. "There is a rich middle ground for dialogue between the practitioners of astrobiology and those who seek to understand the meaning of our existence in a biological universe."

Thirty scientists, including non-Catholics, from the U.S., France, Britain, Switzerland, Italy and Chile attended the conference, called to explore among other issues "whether sentient life forms exist on other worlds."
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bluefrog · Nov 11, 2009

I'm surprised the Mormons or Jehovah Witness' hadn't thought of this first. Those people are everywhere!

SlyPokerDog · Nov 11, 2009

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I'm surprised the Mormons or Jehovah Witness' hadn't thought of this first. Those people are everywhere!
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Scientology beat them to it.

barfo · Nov 11, 2009

Thirty scientists, including non-Catholics, from the U.S., France, Britain, Switzerland, Italy and Chile attended the conference
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Fools. They'll be among the first to die in the New Crusades. The Pope is taking names, he's making a list. When he conspires with the US government to collect the S2 subscriber data, I'm going underground.

barfo

SlyPokerDog · Nov 11, 2009

barfo said: ↑

Fools. They'll be among the first to die in the New Crusades. The Pope is taking names, he's making a list. When he conspires with the US government to collect the S2 subscriber data, I'm going underground.

barfo
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Going underground?!? I didn't think you ever left your parent's basement.

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