Vatican astronomer says God and space aliens are brothers or something like that
Equally dumb.
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.
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”.
“Why can’t we speak of a ‘brother extraterrestrial‘? It would still be part of creation,” he said.
“As an astronomer, I continue to believe that God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the product of something casual but children of a good father who has a project of love in mind for us,” he said.
Stephen Hawking’s answer to the possibility is “probably not“.
“Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare.” He adds: “Some would say it has yet to occur on earth.”
Posted: Thu - May 15, 2008 at 08:05 AM