Don’t get me wrong…
Doctor Who? Father Jose Gabriel Funes and aliens.
The interview in the Vatican newspaper was fun for me - I love the Little Prince and small planets - my own little planet is a wonderful place. That said - some people may think I was dissing the astronomer priest. Not. To me it is just common sense - the cosmos is a big place. Henry Karlson, one of my favorite contributors at Vox Nova, has evidence the priest’s view is not some new age theory at all. Read his post, “When the news is not news.”
I find it interesting however, that we earthlings can become so preoccupied with aliens in outer space when we have such obvious difficulties with immigration issues involving legal and illegal aliens from other countries. In a world where war and killing one another seems to be our chief method of survival. We speculate on extraterrestrial life while we ignore the stranger on the street and allow whole nations to be exterminated by genocide. Isn’t that the queerest? (Yeah, don’t get me started.)
May 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
yea, the irony of it all ….
May 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I email Father Chris Corbally (Vice-Director of Vab. Obs.) once in a while asking for advice on a science/ religion issue I might be hung up on. He’s been very patient with me over the years.