Na stronie "www.space-issues" czytamy, ¿e wiara katolicka uznaje ¿ycie pozaziemskie, w tym ¿ycie inteligentne jako cze¶æ Bo¿ego Stworzenia. Znajdujemy tam omówienie konferencji, a tak¿e linka do materia³ów watykañskich w formie pdf. "In the conference itself, experts from various faiths, scientific disciplines, and countries thoroughly covered the topic of Astrobiology. Discussions covered origins of life, habitability, environment, genomes, detecting life in the universe, formation, properties, and the search for extra-solar planets, and finally the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Information on the topics, abstracts, and presenters can be found here.

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Bodaj najtrudniejsze, bo kontrowersyjne pytania zada³ s³ynny kosmolog Paul Davies. Oto fragment artyku³u omawiaj±cego jego wystapienie. "I think the discovery of a second genesis would be of enormous spiritual significance," says Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Arizona State University who is speaking at the Vatican conference. He believes the potential challenge to Christianity in particular "is being downplayed" by religious leaders. "The real threat would come from the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence, because if there are beings elsewhere in the universe, then Christians, they're in this horrible bind. They believe that God became incarnate in the form of Jesus Christ in order to save humankind, not dolphins or chimpanzees or little green men on other planets."

I dalej czytamy: Davies explained the tensions within the Catholic Church: "If you look back at the history of Christian debate on this, it divides into two camps. There are those that believe that it is human destiny to bring salvation to the aliens, and those who believe in multiple incarnations," he said, referencing the belief that Christ could have appeared on other planets at other times. "The multiple incarnations is a heresy in Catholicism." (As Giordano Bruno learned.)"

Fragment ten pochodzi z artyku³u Marca Kaufmana "When ET phones the Pope"w Washington Post.

Czytaj w Guardianie: Katolicyzm a ¿ycie pozaziemskie".

Na forum dyskusyjnym katolików znajdujemy takie oto g³osy. 1. If there are E.T.'s created in the image of God like us, then they would also have to be fallen children of Adam. If not then they would not be in Adam's place of exile (our universe) and therefore inherently inaccessible to us (except by revelation), just as is God's original Paradise. Consider: If they were not fallen children of Adam but accessible to us then Paradise would be accessible to us through contact with them, and we could evade that angel with the flaming sword and get back to the Tree of Life (see Gen 3:24). I don't think God is "ineffectual" that way.

2. Christ came to save all of Adam's fallen children; yet, so far as we can tell, He came only to this planet (like us in all things save sin, and we don't multilocate across the universe). He did send His disciples to "teach all nations", but up until now, anyway, we have no way to "evangelize the stars", which appears to be incumbent upon us if indeed there are E.T.'s.

3. Therefore it appears to me that we are it - the only created images of God in the entire universe. I know this posits a "homocentric" universe and this means all of that stupendous creation we see out there was all done specifically for us, but why not? Consider how the universe was formed from its first moments of the Big Bang (we're talking about when the diameter of the universe was the Planck length) when all the physical constants and constraints necessary for our eventual existence billions of years later were being created. It only shows how prodigious is God's loving benevolence!

Fragmenty dyskusji pochodz± z www.catholicforum

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I jeszcze link do Unexplained Mysteries

I na koniec ciekawostka. Ksi±¿ka Stana Romanka o jego kontaktach z istotami pozaziemskimi "Messages"