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 |  Subject: As Rome Moves Toward Official Disclosure, Jesuit Guy Consolmagno (Featured In “Exo-Vaticana”) Says ET Discovery Is Only A Matter  Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:09 am | |
| As Rome Moves Toward Official Disclosure, Jesuit Guy Consolmagno (Featured In “Exo-Vaticana”) Says ET Discovery Is Only A Matter Of Time And Will Require ASerious Re-Think Of What It Means To Be Human As Well As Modifications To The Theology Of Salvation
A planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993, Brother Consolmagno said he hopes the questions about life on other planets will focus more on how humanity sees itself. "When we say human, human as compared to what?" he asked. When the discovery of life elsewhere is disclosed, Brother Consolmagno expects that it will open the door to ponder what form salvation history may take in other intelligent societies. The longtime Vatican astronomer addresses the same question and a series of others that cross the threshold between science and religion in a new book, "Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? ... and Other Strange Questions From the Inbox at the Vatican Observatory," set to be published in October. Co-written by Jesuit Father Paul Mueller, another Vatican Observatory astronomer, the book uses conversations between the two in an effort to explain how the church supports science and provide insight into how religion works. |
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