In the beginning God created ET

Illustration by Priya Kathri

It’s always been a problem for me since I was a child.
At school I started to attend the religion class and the science one at the same time.
What a dilemma: “How did it all begin?!”

Since my teachers were all Sisters, every time I asked them to tell me why the two stories were so different, they just answered: “One day you will understand by yourself”.
Then I decided to study philosophy at the university and things got worse, as I realized that the two conceptions, the creationist and the scientific ones were irreconciliable.
Is it still true?

Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

This fact, he wrote on an article published on the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano titled “The extraterrestrial is my brother”, does not contradict belief in God.

At the beginning I thought his words were the first step in the right direction in terms of dialogue between religion and science after hundreds years of fight and repression; then a doubt reached me, as Funes said: “we can’t put limits on God’s creative freedom”.

Do you think this fact is an openmindedness or just an expansion of Christian influence and power out of its traditional limits?
In other words: a dude and progressive Church or just clever?

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