UFOs over the Vatican?

[Macoy]

Step back and gasp in amazement as Catholics are dragged kicking and screaming into the 17th century:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7399661.stm

[Complexity]

catholic cya - a woo cocktail

[triadboy]

The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God.

Looking at the Bible, if God created another world and stocked it with life too - it would be mentioned here:

Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years

[No mention of the other worlds we are finding every day.]

As a Catholic astronomer, Father Funes must surely realize the "lights in the firmament" are stars - billions of years old. Yet the Bible says this mind-bogglingly large universe was brought into existence - instantly - by command - by an invisible creature.

It should be common knowledge that stars and planets didn't come into existence instantly together. So there is a contradiction.

The Scientific-minded Xian answer is - God created the universe instantly - with the light from distant stars already 'here'. Why would He do that? To trick us!

Trickster Gods in the 21st century! Why aren't we advancing faster? I thought by now there would be no religion and we'd all have rocketcars! Man, I'd love me a rocketcar.




Yes, I meant to say "bogglingly".

[ceo_esq]

Step back and gasp in amazement as Catholics are dragged kicking and screaming into the 17th century:

What does this have to do with being dragged back to the 17th century?

Interestingly, intelligent life on other worlds was hypothesized in Catholic natural philosophy and theology at least as early as the Middle Ages.

[JEROME DA GNOME]

What does this have to do with being dragged back to the 17th century?

Interestingly, intelligent life on other worlds was hypothesized in Catholic natural philosophy and theology at least as early as the Middle Ages.

Dude, you can not allow facts to get in the way of avatars which have been created.

:mgbanghead