Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:11:07 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: "gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org" <gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org>, wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com,
 WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Vatican ponders extraterrestrials
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Didn't we read about something like this in a short story, decades ago?

Excerpt:
Questions about extra-terrestrial life are "very interesting and deserve
serious consideration" the Vatican said yesterday, as one of its officials
presented a summary of its first conference on astrobiology.

Speaking at the conclusion of a study week, organised by the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences and the Vatican Observatory, Father Jose Funes explained why the
Vatican had turned its attention to the subject.

"Although astrobiology is an emerging field and still a developing subject, the
questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the
universe are very interesting and deserve serious consideration. These
questions offer many philosophical and theological implications".
--- end excerpt ---

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/11/vatican-extra-terrestrials-catholic>

  mark

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