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Sharon Begley
Stug01:
While at first glance your comments are eye-rolling funny, they are the type that completely discredit dogmatic religious belief with anybody who uses logical thinking!
What kind of arrogance allows you to state: "No other creature but man was created in the image of God" How do you know? The Bible doesn't state this (not that it states anything in specific terms). Remember, those who wrote the Bible thought the world was flat and the world was the center of everything. They couldn't fathom an Alaskan Innuit much less the possibility of life beyond the sky.
Honestly, can you come up with something a bit more plausible for those of us that don't use the Bible as a means for scientific answers? PS- Evolution and Theory of Evolution are one in the same. It's a developing scientific concept- science takes time/argument/evidence/discussion- it's quirky like that.
As a Christian (not a Catholic), I find this most disturbing.
a) Earth is God's special creation on which Christ died to redeem sinners.
b) No other creature but man was created in the image of God, which is why God came to earth as a man to defeat death and Hell on the Cross.
c) Real science demonstrates the sheer complexity of life and there are almost impossible odds of it developing without intelligent input. Even the 'simplest' organism is awe-inspiringly complex.
d) If you believe that God created life on earth but that it also developed independently elsewhere in the universe then you are devaluing the work of the Creator.
e) Christ died for the sins of those who give their lives to Him. ET never got this far in the film, nor could he, being non-human.
f) I wonder if the pope knows the difference between evolution (real) and the Theory of Evolution (fraud).
g) Is the pope a Catholic? Certainly! Is he a Bible-believing Christian? Clearly not!
How this for a shocker? Jesus was an extraterrestial-human hybrid! This isn't new either. There's a book on this controversial topic that Vatican tried hard to supress ala Da Vinci Code. It somehow escaped the ban because the author re-marketed it as a parody. It's now called Givenchy Code by ER Escober.
http://www.prlog.org/10071739-catholic-secret-aliens-connection-revealed-in-book-that-vatican-tried-to-ban-ala-da-vinci-code.html
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