Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:
Intelligent Life in the Universe? (CLICK HERE for it)
This 2005 book on “Catholic belief and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life” was written by Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. and published by The Catholic Truth Society. Br. Guy writes that he has a hunch that, sooner or later, the human race will discover that there are other intelligent creatures out there in the universe. He emphasizes the speculative nature of this subject (repeatedly pointing out that we do not know whether or not such life exists), and covers topics including the nature of knowledge, other intelligences in the Bible, extraterrestrial intelligence and Catholic theology, and “What Does It All Mean?”
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