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The Negative Effects of Religion

Search for aliens doesn't negate faith: Vatican

Last Update: Monday, 08 Aug 2011 | Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 | By Marquez Comelab
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The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God, the pope's chief astronomer said today, adding that some aliens may even be innocent of the original sin...Even if "we don't currently have any proof... the hypothesis" of extraterrestrial life cannot be ruled out, said Funes, a Jesuit priest who directs the Vatican's observatory at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome.

COMMENT: I find this article very interesting considering that back in Galileo's time, scientists were branded as heretics with their telescopes as the tools of evil. Unlike Galileo, who was put under house arrest for the rest of his life because of his discoveries, most scientists and thinkers who ever questioned the belief that the universe revolved around the Earth were killed or that other planets existed were killed.

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