Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life

By BRANDON KEIM

Little green men might shock the secular public. But the Catholic Church would welcome them as brothers.

That’s what Vatican chief astronomer and papal science adviser Gabriel Funes explained in a recent article in L’Osservatore Romano, the newsletter of the Vatican Observatory (translated here). His conclusion might surprise nonbelievers. After all, isn’t this the same church that imprisoned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolves around the sun? Doesn’t the Bible say that God created man — not little green men — in his image?

Indeed, many observers assert that aliens would be bad for believers. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research, once wrote that finding intelligent other-worldly life “will be inconsistent with the existence of God or at least organized religions.” But such predictions tend to come from outside Christianity. From within, theologians have debated the implications of alien contact for centuries. And if one already believes in angels, no great leap of faith is required to accept the possibility of other extraterrestrial intelligences.

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X-PPAC Video Question ABC News "This Week" GOP Presidential Debate

PRG/X-PPAC
Paradigm Research Group
Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee

Media Notice – August 4, 2007

X-PPAC Video Question
ABC News “This Week” GOP Presidential Debate
Sunday Morning, August 5, 2007

Washington, DC – X-PPAC’s video question on candidates’ intentions toward a proper presidential briefing and congressional hearings regarding the UFO/ET phenomenon is one of 45 under consideration for the ABC News GOP presidential debate moderated by George Stephanopoulos.

The question, while submitted early, was posted only recently and has received a limited number of viewings. The prospect for this question being used in the GOP debate will be enhanced if the number of viewings increases and the rating for the question increases.

The submission is located at this web page:
http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/player.aspx?id=562141

Any additional viewings and increased ratings by list members could help get this question into the televised debate.

Program times for “This Week” by city are posted at this page:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/ThisWeek/02%2007%20Coverage%20Chart.pdf

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Please, Go and watch the video and vote so we can get the truth behind the whole ET subject. It’s time this gets disclosed to the world, and we start doing some serious research on this matter.

If the readers could assist in spreading this as fast as possible, to as many people as possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

ABC News Morphs into CNN While Doing Piece

“Out of The Blue”

By Frank Warren

Not surprisingly, and following the “mainstream press pattern, ABC News, specifically “Nightline” delivered a disappointing segment on UFOs, and in particular, the “updated version” (5th anniversary) of the documentary, “Out of The Blue” last night (Friday July 6th).

Not unlike its rival, CNN, the reporting done primarily by Brian Rooney was poor, and misleading; however, they did omit the “Sci-Fi theme music” (e.g., The Outer Limits) which I suppose is a plus given how the networks (and CNN) “handle” the subject.

Much like the Peter Jennings show, “Seeing is Believing” done a couple of years back, the news segment started out well; it began with Dr. Frank Drake (in a classroom setting, in front of a chalkboard) explaining the “Drake Equation” which calculates the number of worlds that may harbor intelligent life; this was followed by witnesses of the Phoenix Lights sighting of ‘97, beginning with good friend and colleague Mike Fortson.

It was all down hill from there in my view; although there were moments of clarity, as the producers continued to show snippets of the documentary. The questions posed by Brian Rooney intimated that the subject of UFOs was either “faith based,” fodder for the “mentally challenged” or possibly some “grand conspiratorial hoax!”

Professional skeptic Michael Shermer was enlisted to offer the “contrasting view” (apparently) and for me “broke the monotony,” as it evoked laughter; piteously he actually believes what he says. Shermer took eye witness accounts of astronauts, police officers or politicians like Jimmy Carter bundled them up and discarded them, saying, “it’s irrelevant . . . because they’re human and they’re brains and nervous systems and sensory apparatus are structured just like the average Joes.”

Can you imagine an attorney in a murder case standing up in court using that defense? Apparently, Shermer would have the viewer believer that the credibility of witnesses is dependent upon “just what they saw.” If they saw a plane then “their respective neurons are firing properly”; however, inject a UFO into the mix, and perhaps their “sensory apparatus” is flawed somehow! Ad Nauseum!

Although Shermer talked about “science” stating, “The, uh, the story is well told and well produced. But that’s not how science works. In science we have to have some way of testing to get an answer. It’s this or this. And we have to have some way of weighing the evidence.” He continues by saying, “UFO sightings, even the most interesting ones, tend to share similar characteristics. There are no pictures, or the pictures are blurry. Or maybe there are pictures, but they disappeared into government archives never to be seen again.”

Shermer fails to point out (and Rooney doesn’t question) the fact that the UFO phenomenon is “transitory”; because the task of acquiring scientific evidence is difficult under these circumstances, it doesn’t mean it’s impossible, or that it doesn’t exist as Shermer might have the viewer believe!

The dialogue left the viewer thinking that Ufology is supported by nothing more then “questionable witnesses and or blurry pictures.” Nothing was said about the 20 years of investigation done by the U.S. Air Force” or the fact that some of the greatest minds of the last century were tasked “secretly” to investigate the phenomenon; many who would become “Nobel Laureates!” “Physical trace cases” weren’t mentioned, nor “radar/visual sightings.” The fact that every intelligence agency as well as every branch of the military has files on UFOs was also precluded.

That truth that Congress has addressed the subject matter on more then one occasion, as well as it echoing through the halls of the U.N. was conveniently omitted!

The statistical study by the “Battelle Memorial Institute” (regarding UFO sightings) done for the Air Force was not mentioned; nor Project Blue Book’s Special Report No. 14. The formation of “The Robertson Panel” by the CIA, and the beginning of “governmental debunking” (based on the recommendation of the panel) was not discussed.

Suffice it to say, what was left out of the piece in regards to “validating Ufology” for the layperson was substantial! The questions asked, as well as the way they were asked, in addition to omission of much of the facts certainly influences the “collective mind-set of the viewers.”

This “pitiable reporting” by “the mainstream media” in regards to the “UFO Phenomenon” is very reminiscent of the reporting of erroneous data in the months following 911, which lead over 70% of the American public to “falsely believe” that Iraq had something to do with the attack.

The one encouraging (and ironic) aspect of the segment is that, given Nightline’s large audience, those that end up purchasing the documentary, “Out of The Blue” will get a more accurate, and illuminating report of the “UFO Phenomenon. “

Good work James Fox!

Out of the Blue

Visit Frank Warren’s website.

Tonight on ABC Television’s Nightline – Do Aliens Exist?

Exopolitics Toronto
Media Release
‘Out of the Blue’: Do Aliens Exist?
Tonight on ABC Television’s Nightline

Toronto ON, Canada, July 6, 2007 – Tonight on ABC’s Nightline at 11:35 pm EDT the documentary OUT OF THE BLUE by producer James Fox will be highlighted. Fox says that aliens are out there. ‘They’re flying around. They’re here and they’ve been here.’

Mainstream media is gradually reaching farther out into the UFO research community to obtain the truth behind the sixty year government cover-up of an ET presence on the planet. ABC News has shown itself to be a mainstream media leader in the disclosure initiative.

Watch a Nightline preview video at: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/

For the full story line by Brian Rooney go to: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3349575&page=1

For more information on the documentary see: http://www.outofthebluethemovie.com/

E-mail ABC News to let them know that they are a leadership entity in ending the truth embargo about an ET presence on the planet at: http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3052660

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Contact Details:

Victor Viggiani B.A. M.Ed.

Director of Media Relations

Exopolitics Toronto

www.exopoliticstoronto.com

This is another unprecedented event. Now ABC treating this subject with more serious? What’s going on? Are we at the dawn of an actual Disclosure? Or they are just trying to get some credibility before joining the rest of the Military-Industrial Complex in some staged events? This worries me more than anything, but let’s just hope I’m wrong on this.

Tonight on ABC Television’s Nightline – Do Aliens Exist?

Exopolitics Toronto
Media Release
‘Out of the Blue’: Do Aliens Exist?
Tonight on ABC Television’s Nightline

Toronto ON, Canada, July 6, 2007 – Tonight on ABC’s Nightline at 11:35 pm EDT the documentary OUT OF THE BLUE by producer James Fox will be highlighted. Fox says that aliens are out there. ‘They’re flying around. They’re here and they’ve been here.’

Mainstream media is gradually reaching farther out into the UFO research community to obtain the truth behind the sixty year government cover-up of an ET presence on the planet. ABC News has shown itself to be a mainstream media leader in the disclosure initiative.

Watch a Nightline preview video at: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/

For the full story line by Brian Rooney go to: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3349575&page=1

For more information on the documentary see: http://www.outofthebluethemovie.com/

E-mail ABC News to let them know that they are a leadership entity in ending the truth embargo about an ET presence on the planet at: http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3052660

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Contact Details:

Victor Viggiani B.A. M.Ed.

Director of Media Relations

Exopolitics Toronto

www.exopoliticstoronto.com

This is another unprecedented event. Now ABC treating this subject with more serious? What’s going on? Are we at the dawn of an actual Disclosure? Or they are just trying to get some credibility before joining the rest of the Military-Industrial Complex in some staged events? This worries me more than anything, but let’s just hope I’m wrong on this.