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Pope's Scientist Happy to Baptize an Intelligent Extraterrestrial

  • 06-10-2010 12:25pm
    #1
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Sorry now but he must be mad!!! Any intelligent species capable of making a journey to the Earth will not, I am sure, be a believer of a supernatural deity. Likewise if we ever manage to reach a planet with intelligent life on it, I would hope we would not bring our childish superstitions and fears with us.

    http://news.discovery.com/space/popes-scientist-would-be-happy-to-baptise-an-intelligent-extraterrestrial.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

    Sorry Beeker just needed to get his religious frustrations off his chest........

    Feeling much better now...... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh


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  • #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    why wouldn't a space faring race have religious people?

    do you think that as soon as they leave their solar system they get hit by interstellar atheism rays?


  • #3
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    why wouldn't a space faring race have religious people?

    do you think that as soon as they leave their solar system they get hit by interstellar atheism rays?
    The answer of course is I don't know. I do believe that as a species evolves and learns more about the universe and science, that the number of members of that species, believing in a supernatural deity will decrease. The belief may never go away, but it will become more marginal. I think these kinds of beliefs are something we, and indeed all intelligent species will grow out off. As we grow up we no longer fear the dark!


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