Vatican Starts Search for E.T.

Can you imagine. NASA sets up a new moon base and on the very first day it opens they will have a Jehova´s witness, religious fanatic, or Scientology follower knocking on their damn airlock door.

Now getting to the serious point; it´s about time. I dislike a lot of Catholic ways but if the Jewish and Catholic communities pushed into space research; it´s quite possible that there will be a good amount of funding coming from religion to advance space science.

I thought current space science was already a religion.

Funnier still, There´s a knock at the airlock door, you open it and there´s a guy there who says: Have you heard the good news about Amway?

Surely, they should simply look to the bible? That seems to have pretty good detail (...) about the origins of the universe and, in particular, Earth. Wouldn´t there be some mention of extraterrestrial life somewhere in there if it existed?
Still, I think it´s good they´re funding such research, if a bit strange.

dont you? Theyve been watching the new series of ´V´ and shit themselves. Guess that would be ´holy shit´.

Perhaps they aren´t looking at "the bible" because they´re looking for empirical evidence, rather than parables and conjecture.

BB

Is the space pope reptilian?

http://images.wikia.com/

The Roman Catholic Church is ~very~ supportive of sciences (regardless of past objections to them), and doesn´t take a "by scripture alone" view of the bible in either respects of the world/universe in general as well as their theology/morality, that´s more of a protestant invention.

I still think they´re wrong about a bunch of other stuff, but I certainly give them credit where it´s due ;-)

as one of the headlines for this story went.... :D

Yeah, I heard that the church at one time was the largest funding sources in the world for dinosaur digs.

Please keep your peanut-butter out of science´s chocolate. Thank you.

You´re so right there. After all, it was Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the fathers of modern archeology, who we have to thank for digging up most of the bones we have today...

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@spiggy
Let the RCC play in the science sandbox, how else do you expect them to grow up and let go of their infallible security blanket?

@bb: Why should they care about empirical evidence on one hand, yet worship conjecture on the other?

@vlynxy: I certainly give them credit. Just find it odd :)

Simple politics. First, you learn what your enemy has against you. Then, you claim to support his cause... and finally, you create a story that better fits the narrow minds of your constituency. It happens every day, in every country and sadly, it works well.

For a more blunt, yet concise answer, I´ll quote Adolf Hitler...

"How great it is for leaders that men do not think".

Organized religion thrives on those words and to their credit, the Catholic church has been wildly successful with this knowledge. After all, they own more real estate worldwide than any other single investor, they influence legislation worldwide and they have the ability to circumvent justice when their messengers are caught violating children.

BB