Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – 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.

Asked if he was referring to beings similar to humans or even more evolved than humans, he said: “Certainly, in a universe this big you can’t exclude this hypothesis”.

In the interview headlined “The extraterrestrial is my brother,” he said he saw no conflict between belief in such beings and faith in God.

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(Full Article: http://uk.reuters.com)

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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(Full Article: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5065245&page=1)

Doritos makes history with world’s first extraterrestrial advert

Quite a step forward in the last couple of weeks?

The transmission is being undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the UK public to create a 30 second video clip that could be beamed out to the universe offering a snap shot of life on earth to anyone ‘out there’. 61% of the UK public believe this is just the start of communication with ET life and that we will enter into regular communication with an alien species at some stage in the future.

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(Full Article: http://www.physorg.com/news132496530.html)

Doritos makes history with world’s first extraterrestrial advert

Quite a step forward in the last couple of weeks?

The transmission is being undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the UK public to create a 30 second video clip that could be beamed out to the universe offering a snap shot of life on earth to anyone ‘out there’. 61% of the UK public believe this is just the start of communication with ET life and that we will enter into regular communication with an alien species at some stage in the future.

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(Full Article: http://www.physorg.com/news132496530.html)

Higher States of Consciousness and Extraterrestrial Contact

May 23rd, 2008 : Dr. Steven Greer & Linda Willitts

Higher States of Consciousness and Extraterrestrial Contact Audio

With his long time special assistant, Linda Willitts, Dr. Greer will discuss the importance of higher states of consciousness in contacting Extraterrestrial civilizations. They have been on dozens of CSETI expeditions together in groups of 5 – 45 people.

Topics of Conversation:

* Why the use of higher states of consciousness is essential in contacting these civilizations.

* How to establish these other civilizations use individually or in a group.

* What the key elements are in becoming a true Ambassador to the Universe. (www.CSETI.org)

(Source: http://www.worldpuja.org/archives/2008-05-23/index.php?rnd=5956&listen=on)