If ETs landed on Earth tomorrow, what would the Catholic Church's next step be?

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Pope Francis once joked we would baptize them. Not me though. Just another cool animal God created.
 
Having been involved in the creation of alien worlds, fun is job one. That’s why science-fantasy like Star Wars is so popular. Good storytelling and plausibility touches the reader/viewer and inspires some to be creative themselves. That said, man is definitely planning on getting out into space. Before the Wright brothers flew for the first time, a prominent scientist proclaimed that a powered manned aircraft was impossible. It would be too heavy to carry an engine and pilot. Less than 45 years later, manned jet aircraft in combat and the first atomic bombs.

“The impossible just takes a little longer.”

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Would any intelligent life that had bodies be smart enough to find away to travel that fast anyway?

I don’t want to sound dumb, because I’m sure people 1,000 years ago didn’t think we’d ever land on the moon. But i think you have a good point: Is it even possible to travel to the next distant planet with intelligent life?

Perhaps if these alleged ETs swapped out their biological life with some artificial intelligence (which may not even be possible, either, because what of the intelligent spiritual soul???) then maybe they could last long enough to travel such distances.
 
But anyways, the idea of intelligent alien life freaks me out. Especially if they’re allegedly zooming around our skies and abducting people 😥 And who’s to say they haven’t been messing with religion?
 
There’s no evidence of anyone being abducted by aliens. In a book about the subject, a doctor concludes that something occurred with these people but what that may be is unknown. He refers to these people as “experiencers.” Anyway, I think traveling faster than the speed of light is possible. Rapid advances in related fields indicates that, at some point, man will travel to the stars.

There’s no evidence of aliens visiting the earth.
 
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“B’reyshit bara Elokim et hashamayim, v’et haaretz.”

That’s the opening of Bereshis (Genesis). What does Avodah Zarah 3b, B.T., say? That G-d created 18,000 inhabitable worlds, though the Sefer HaBris says they don’t look like life here. The Midrash and Ibn Ezra (you could also say the Zohar here, too), have a different hashkafa on seven worlds or seven continents. We’ll stay away from that one for now. Much later, the Shlaw of Vilna found agreement with Yeshayahu (Isaiah 45:18), which described alien life. Then, of course, we have the famous Gemara on Moed Katan 16a, B.T., which is an addition to Devorah’s Song (Shoftim, Judges 5:15), quoted in Megillah 18a, in which it talks about the inhabitants of the planet meroz, who were cursed since they didn’t stand alongside Israel in her wars on earth.
 
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RealisticCatholic said:
Would any intelligent life that had bodies be smart enough to find away to travel that fast anyway?

I don’t want to sound dumb, because I’m sure people 1,000 years ago didn’t think we’d ever land on the moon. But i think you have a good point: Is it even possible to travel to the next distant planet with intelligent life?

Perhaps if these alleged ETs swapped out their biological life with some artificial intelligence (which may not even be possible, either, because what of the intelligent spiritual soul???) then maybe they could last long enough to travel such distances.
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You could have generational ships, in which people are born and die for multiple generations, living on the ship, as it journeys between star systems. One large enough to grow and farm food.

Or non-conventional means of FTL travel, such as the hypothetical Alcubierre warp drive or an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole).
 
No aliens have landed on earth. The US and Canadian governments do have something to hide. A significant amount of information dating to World War II is still classified. Most people are unaware of this and due to denials and cover stories, assume that ET is the only explanation.
 
A far more dramatic explanation was offered in the book Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. The Ramans have been reduced to molecules floating in a river aboard a miles long spaceship. They are guarded by a sentient-level computer.
 
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I don’t see a reason to credit people like Hellyer on this.
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Is there something about Hellyer that makes him non-creditworthy? Apparently he was trustworthy enough to be in Canadian cabinet.
 
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Based on our faith as revealed by Christ and documented in Sacred Scripture, the only explanation for the appearance of an ET that would be consistent with what we believe would be that it was a manifestation of the Prince of Lies or one of his servants. Pretty simple, actually.
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Since the Bible doesn’t even address the question of life on other planets, that’s not really accurate.
 
I watched Arrival last night and thought it was interesting.

But it made me realize just how hard it would be to communicate with another advanced species. It almost seems like evangelization would be impossible.
 
And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
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John 10:16.

Of course, if they’ve studied us before traveling all this way, the fact that they’re coming here to meet us is fairly persuasive evidence that they aren’t intelligent.

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Not at all. Assuming aliens exist, and have higher technology and a different means of communication, it would be up to them to understand us while we do the same.
 
How could they study us in any meaningful way without coming here first?
 
It would seem doubtful that such an advanced species would think they’d need the religion of a perceived lower intelligent one.
 
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