Beliving alien life forms exist is not contradictory to having faith in God according to the top astronomer at the Vatican.
In a Vatican newspaper piece titled “The Extraterrestrial Is My Brother,” the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said the expansiveness of our universe allows for life on planets other than our own.
“In my opinion this possibility exists,” Funes, the director of the Vatican Observatory, told L’Osservatore Romano. “Astronomers believe the universe is made up of 100 billion galaxies, each of which consists of 100 billion stars. … Life forms could exist in theory even without oxygen or hydrogen.”
He went on to say that other intelligent life existing doesn’t pose a problem for those of the Catholic faith.
“It is possible. So far we have no proof. But certainly in a universe so big we can not exclude this hypothesis,” he told the paper. “This does not conflict with our faith, because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God.” – fox
If you think about it, the entire Christian religion is already cool with extraterrestrials since Jesus is technically a human-alien hybrid.
This harmony is all very well and good, until the aliens show us the video they made of how they came down and geneticaly altered life on Earth to create … us. Then the Vatican will have to say that God created us by creating the aliens that created us… until the aliens that created the aliens that created us come down with their video.
