Mars needs Catholics

if we try to convert the first alien species we find i would lose all faith in this species

...about the only suggestion I can squeeze out here is..."New colony on Mars for pedophiles"...

I see life on other planets as being much the same as it would here on Earth. In the scope of climate and environmental conditions possible in the universe, and the lack of life on planets which have even a slightly different atmosphere than ours, wouldn't life follow the same basic developmental stages as it has on Earth and create a similar life-form? If we're lucky, maybe we can find a planet harboring life still in a period like the Cretaceous or something. Odds are there is another planet somewhere out there in the universe of the same age, orbiting it's own sun at a comparable distance, with carbon-based beings walking it. Who are silver.

OMG...South Park called this SO many years ago! "Starvin' Marvin" anyone??

This is just a magnificant article. I thouroughly enjoyed reading it. Thank you callenstewart.

This is nonsense. No one, anywhere needs Catholics.

Do Catholics even believe in aliens?..

Hey, are the republicans gay aliens?

I'm always amused by the fact that people ALWAYS seem to assume that if there ARE aliens out there, they'll be bipedal intelligent beings just like us. Who's to say the "aliens" out there aren't like rabbits? Or birds? Or fish? Good luck trying to convert those into Catholicism. Even more annoying is hearing people fantasize about aliens taking over earth or whatever. Out of the MILLIONS of species on planet earth, only ONE of them is a highly intelligent life form capable of advanced communication and complex thought (Internet aside, that's us - humans). If we're expecting to find just ONE "species" of aliens on some distant planet, why on earth (pun regretted) would they be an equivalent to us? It's much more likely that they'd resemble insects, if ANY earth-originated species at ALL. And hell, maybe these "alien life forms" will turn out to be more like algae than anything else. I realize it's more "exciting" to imagine they'd be a comparable counter to the human race, but realize that's extremely childish, naive thinking.

And no, even if they did speak a language, it likely wouldn't be intelligible to humans, so forget about religious conversion or "befriending" them.

the bible re-write offers possibilities;

a reading from mark: stardate 3456.7
blessed are the uranus that does not lay larva in missionaries.

I want to know why we continue to call humans "intelligent life forms"... we are the dumbest species on the planet if you ask me... well we are certainly the most selfish. Certainly somewhere, in the vast universe, God has a better plan.

"In the interview last year, Funes told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that believing the universe may host aliens, even intelligent ones, does not contradict a faith in God."

I am so disgusted with these arrogant bible thumping lunatics. Even is it were a contradiction to their faith in "god" the rest of the sane world doesn't need to stop progress because of the arbitrary, power hungry, fears of managers in the world's largest money laundering corporation, the Catholic Church.

What if the aliens want to build relationships with humans? Will the crazy bible thumpers going to do about it, stand with guns and police everyone? Screw them!

Oh my...that's pretty dang amazing...

Ninja_Koala you wont be mistaken for a religious tolerant....
Person from Virginia........No one needs a whaler or a marshal arts course but they still have them......ouch on you..........

So Gene Rodenberry , may he rest in heaven, sold us a bill of lies. We will never have a Mr Spock kind of character who can communicate with aliens without talking English or Swahili to them. Catholicks do quite of bit of work in Italian or Spanish. English isn't really a requirement. the above msg is for calm_incense