Posted on 10/02/2015 6:21:16 AM PDT by marshmallow
NASA scientists have confirmed that liquid water flows, at least during the summer months, on the surface of Mars
A Vatican astronomer said the latest discovery of flowing liquid water on the surface of Mars was exciting.
“You can see the traces of the rivers changing over the course of a Martian year. So we are not talking about water that was there a long time ago or water that is frozen under the surface, but actual liquid water on the surface,” Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, told Vatican Radio on Tuesday.
NASA scientists confirmed on Monday that liquid water flows, at least during the summer months, on the surface of Mars.
The latest discovery adds to the debate of whether life ever existed, or could exist, beyond the planet Earth.
Brother Consolmagno told Vatican Radio, “We have no idea whether life is so rare that it never occurs anywhere, or so common that it occurs everywhere, and that’s why we have to look at places life could be to see just how rare or how common it actually is.”
Brother Consolmagno said discovering if there were or were not life found beyond Earth would reveal something about God’s personality.
“If God chose to make a universe where we are the only creatures, that is interesting, that tells us something about God and us,” he said.
“If God creates a universe where life is everywhere, that gives us a different picture of God, but either way, we learn more about who the creator is.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Well .. there’s an easier way to discover God’s personality .. just read the book HE wrote - the title is “The Bible”.
I hear it’s still the best selling book in the world.
Wow, a Vatican astronomer.
They’ve come a long way since they tried Galileo by Inquisition, found him “vehemently suspect of heresy”, forced him to recant his discoveries and imprisoned him the rest of his life under house arrest.
See? They have changed. Great news.
- attributed to J.B.S.Haldane
Regards,
If they go further, the Vatican astronomer can tell us why the sign in Revelation 12 (a sign of the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet) happened in September last year, October this year (in a couple weeks) and not in December 2,000 years ago .
They would have to abandon their Christmas if they did and the world economy cant have that happen..
At least the ones with a Rubber Soul...
John 5:19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Hebrews 1:3 [Jesus] is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
Colossians 1:15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
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