[meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils inFireballFragments

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:21:45 +0100
Message-ID: <01e801ce200f$3d2890b0$b779b210$_at_de>

Conte! Brother in Faith,

>"shred" much of civilization's core religious theologies..

> billions of our fellow homonids the fear that their belief systems are losing the battle to scientific discovery

I don't know, why so many should believe, that the existence of extraterrestrial life would contradict their religions.
Are they theologians?

Let's, Count, (leaving the striking cases of Giordano Bruno and Galilei aside, cause they were rehabilitated (neither Columbus discovered the World being round) and anyway, also the enlightened laical liberal United States execute from time to time an innocent - you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs...)

Let's take our both catholic religion, cause it's easier, because it's centralistic organized and its theology and dogmae uniformly binding for the 1.2 billion members - and I have no idea, how aliens would be regarded in the various schools of theology of our brethren, the other suns of Abraham, ???????, ?????????
the Jewish, the Islamic, the other christian churches, who all basically believe in the same, the Buddhists, the Hindu...


I found, that Fra Consolmagno wrote a little booklet about that topic.
(I don't know how well versed he is in theology, but at least he's an astronomer and working on meteorites.)

Title is:
"Intelligent Life in the Universe? Catholic Belief and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life"

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506301.htm

Where he finds out, that catholic belief doesn't exclude the existence of extraterrestrial (and even intelligent) life.

I confess, I haven't bought that book,
because Fra Consolmagno thinks, that three quarters of us collectors and of the meteorite scientists have to burn in hell.
Quotation:

?The question of researching meteorites gathered illegally is essentially the same (though with lower stakes) than the question of doing biological research on stem cells.?


Heu, Frater!! Lacum aperuit et effodit eum et incidet in foveam quam fecit ;-)


Best!
Martin

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Count Deiro
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. M?rz 2013 14:09
An: Mark Ford; Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils inFireballFragments

Hi List,

Mark has said "...I can't understand this fad for claims..." that... "we have found the building blocks of life"

There is no "fad" to reveal, however so unscientifically and hysterically by some in academia and the media, that we have discovered copious amounts of water on planets and moons. It is a scientific discovery that is found exciting to some, and disconcerting and threatening to others, as the evidence piles up that what was once a theory is now, because of Curiosity's right out of the box, successful, directed search, a scientific fact.

Where once one could only postulate that the "building blocks of life" might be on Mars because of what we "discovered" in Nakhla, AH84001 and recent NWAs, we now we know is a fact. And that information may not be remarkable to an educated you, even though you were clueless at one point in your studies, but to the masses it is big medicine and conjures up in billions of our fellow homonids the fear that their belief systems are losing the battle to scientific discovery. And the attitude adjustment ain't going to be pretty..especialy with meteorite worshipping Islam.

Incidentally, I think you've got the chicken before the egg on what came first on this orb, "building blocks" or "life". And no, you can't say that "every shred of evidence we have implies life as we know it started right here" without defining what you consider "life".

Be patient just a few more sols, my friend. We are about to witness discoveries that are going to "shred" much of civilization's core religious theologies and of a much lessor importance, resolve our difference in opinion.

Namaste,

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536
Received on Wed 13 Mar 2013 01:21:45 PM PDT