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QUOTE Vatican says aliens could exist By David Willey BBC News, Rome 22:08 GMT, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:08 UK The Pope's chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled out. Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near ...

note... im not religious at all (im atheist), but this sounds like an interesting topic if there were life forms in outer space, that were also created by god, then they would not be free from original sin (is my opinion). the reason i would say this is that if they were free from original sin, that would suggest that they are a species created more perfectly than the human race. if this ...

QUOTE (crannie @ Jul 10 2008 12 34 AM) note... im not religious at all (im atheist), but this sounds like an interesting topic if there were life forms in outer space, that were also created by god, then they would not be free from original sin (is my opinion). the reason i would say this is that if they were free from original sin, that would suggest that they are a species ...

Well? I'm actually Christian and I always have believed that there are other life forms out there.. Since God is sooooo Great? What makes you believe that God would only create life on Earth?..I always thought it was abit narrow minded/selfish and egotistical for us to think like that..I guess? Maybe it's just in our Nature. My Mom is very religious and I have often times picked Her Mind ...

Well I'm a catholic and I've never ever once doubted that there is other life forms out there in the universe. I mean we are seriously not the only thing God could have created. The universe is super big never ending as I was told in High School and now in college why would we be the only ones here?? I never thought it was a sin either. I'm so happy they moved to new ideas :]]...

next thing you kno, you'll have scientology nuts claiming there's evidence that god might exist

there has to be aliens, we cant be the only life form in this universe. doesnt have to be those scary looking ones from movies, even a plant life is considered an alien

it would indeed be cool to know that there are other living organisms in the universe other than earth. we shall see who conquers who first =D