Re: Vatican says aliens could exist

On 2008-05-14, alextangent <blog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 8:10 pm, Iain <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 7:37 pm, alextangent <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7399661.stm

The Pope's chief astronomer

What is this, 1450?

~Iain

http://kino.as.arizona.edu/~jfunes/jfunes_CV.htm

But this:

"To strengthen its scientific credentials, the Vatican is organising a
conference next year to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the
author of the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin."

should annoy the fundies.

Most of whom we normally describe as "fundamentalist" are pretty vehemently
anti-Catholic already. As an example, check out:

http://www.chick.com/information/religions/catholicism/#hate

.

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