If like me, you believe in the evidence based story of the evolution of human life – all life starting with the Big Bang and so on, instead of the religion based story of one god and us human’s being created by him, then you’ll no doubt be interested in the story I picked up in today’s Guardian online http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/16/waterworld-planet-earth-life
For us believers, if we concede the possibility of other life-giving planets in the universe, whether in our own cosmic backyard as this one is, or so far away we haven’t even begun to comprehend this distance, we must concede the possibility of other evolved life.
Which is where the real fun starts of course.
Another article in today’s newsprint http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2009/1217/1224260826344.html touched on the same topic, and went direct to the point of what the Vatican was doing about it, as in getting a group of scientists together in November of this year (2009) to discuss it.
I have always been amused by the way in which the Vatican in particular can modify it’s own rules to suit changes in people’s understanding of the world around them, the latest big change being in Vatican II which relaxed several previously strictly observed rules… right about the time when people’s education and knowledge was becoming greater thanks to the advent of TV in every home.
So, one wonders, when the first contact finally is made, how will they explain that one? Will they find an interpretation of scripture which states that their God not only made this world in 7 days, but knocked up a few more as well. Or (pun intended) God forbid, our alien visitors might have their own one…
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