Vatican Scientist Says Belief In God And Aliens Is OK

I was just reading this story at Yahoo News, and I am not sure if it is impressive that this astronomer for the Church has decided to enter the 20th century, or if we should hope that he'll make the big leap, and join the rest of us in the 21st!

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.

"How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere," he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview in its Tuesday-Wednesday edition, explaining that the large number of galaxies with their own planets made this possible.


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