I going to try and be as nice as possible the following post, as my words have gotten me into trouble in the past for being flippant with my words.
You need to read this interview.
My thoughts on this is that the guy is losing(or has lost) is mind. Sure, I'll grant the fact that it makes for some fun conversation to talk about E.T.'s. To say that we have "extraterrestrial brother's" is just plain idiotic. Read the account of Creation in Genesis, and one can see there no room "other life's". If this were indeed the case that we had other "brothers", than just who did Jesus die for? What burns me most about this interview is the fact that this dude is the Head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to the Pope. If I were a Catholic, I would certainly be questioning what the hell this guy is talking about. So, my catholic brothers out there in cyber world, take a stand and demand that this adviser quit stomping on the Our Sovereign God and His the Word that proceeded out His mouth.
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Sounds like this gentleman and C.S. Lewis share alot in common. C.S. Lewis also accepted this as a possibility and explored this in His SciFi trilogy known as the Space Trilogy which contains Out of the Silent Planet, Paralandra (my favorite of the 3), That Hideous Strength (Very interesing itself in light of todays culture wars). If you like scifi this will ruin you for the genre as I have never read cs lewis's equal in writting for sci fi. A shame he only did it for one series.
I agree with you that Lewis and This dude's ideas closely mirror each other. Even in his book Mere Christianity, he makes a reference to there to being things " out there that are closer to God than we are.."
I think this is a nutty statement by Lewis. I haven't read his Space Trilogy, so I won't comment on that. My feeling is that you really start to uproot Scripture when you start seriously considering intelligent beings out there just like us. Could there be other organisms, possibly. But something created in the image of God, very doubtful. FYI...check out the movie Space Odyssey 2001 by Stanley Kubrick...I hear it closely mirrors one of the books in Lewis' trilogy.
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