Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

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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."

Source - Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life - Yahoo! News

[gikapoy]

waaa.. hi tech na ang mga pari

[SioDenz]

Nag Jam Jam ra na an Vatican sa mga issues...

[cebulifer]

so...

basin immoral na pud ni taud-taud?

[gikapoy]

sunod ani pa lupad na sila ug ila kaugalingon satelite

[AmorsoloX]

so...

basin immoral na pud ni taud-taud?

naaah.. kung ma "immoral" ni surely dili ako ang magstart...

its noble of the vatican to do this considering its the same institution who punished the guys who argued that the earth is not the center of the universe..

daghan ko giwonder nga mga ifs..

if naa sila life makita (which i think is very very slim considering our current technology), maunsa nlang ang simbahan? dako kaau gubot na sa God as creator of man concept.. maybe gani ang uban moingon nga devils ng mga aliens..

if wala sila makita.. most probably ila ma affirm nga humans are special in the universe as the only one having life, in a way, to say that they are right all along..

if these is some sort of powerplay, the church is making a huge gamble.. but as it seems its going in favor of the church..

ako lang ma say is..

bright jud... kamao sab... may diskarte.. good work.