Fw: G. Coyne, priest, astronomer

From: steve (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 14:23:02 MST


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> From: "scerir" <scerir@libero.it>
> To: <extropians@extropy.org>
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> Subject: G. Coyne, priest, astronomer
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> G. Coyne, priest (jesuit), astronomer, director of the Vatican
Observatories
>
> ^^^^^^^^^
> (at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, but also in Arizona), said that the
> existence
> of extraterrestrial life is "possible" and thinking that we are alone in
the
> universe might be "foolish". The problem he envisages is this. Assuming
> the existence of e.t. life, does or did Jesus visit every each e.t. world
?
> How is that possible? Cute, imo.
>
> Assuming JC would be making these visits for the same reason he came here,
> doesn't that also mean Satan has made a previous visit to every world?
What
> a busy chap! Seriously I always have wondered how monotheistic religions
> (and Christianity and Islam in particular) would deal with the
> discovery/confirmation of the existence of ETs. Steve Davies
>



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