Thursday, May 04, 2006
JESUIT E.T. APOLOGIST
The limitless universe "might even include other planets with other beings created by that same loving God," he added. "The idea of there being other races and other intelligences is not contrary to traditional Christian thought.
"There is nothing in Holy Scripture that could confirm or contradict the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe," he wrote.
Brother Consolmagno said that, like scientists, people of faith should not be afraid of saying "I just don't know."
Human understanding "is always incomplete. It is crazy to underestimate God's ability to create in depths of ways that we will never completely understand. It is equally dangerous to think that we understand God completely," he said in his booklet.
Read the whole article...
When I read the article last fall, it sounded sort of bizarre. Now, after looking at John E. Mack Institute, it starts to look as though the Church is trying to break it to us softly.
