Scenario: If scientists found out that aliens started life on earth, how would that effect the Catholic Faith?

[ChainBreaker]

This earth seeding theory has been debunked so many times it’s basically just a conspiracy theory . There are so many problems with this that it’s just a wishful thinking sort of thing .

The time factor is but one of the problems that makes it virtually impossible. The problem gets worse as you have even less time to explain how the aliens themselves got created. Who created the aliens and so on and so on .

I believe that this falls sufficiently under Ockham’s razor .

I could just as easily ask which monkey that was typing on a keyboard eventually created Shakespeare’s play and if so who created that keyboard .

Humble Catholic?

Please read the OP. I think if you are humble enough you will see that this thread really isn’t about the probability of aliens creating life on earth (and i am sure you are an expert on the subject), but rather it is about the consequences it would have for Christianity if any.

 

[Ignatius]

. . . . it is about the consequences it would have for Christianity if any.

And, as has been pointed out, it would mean that God had created Human Beings and they had migrated from planet-to-planet which has no more theological consequences than migrating from country-to-country or continent-to-continent.

 

[Ed_Silvia]

There is a Vatican.va document somewhere which, in the first paragraph, states that the angels too are made in God’s image and likeness. This would explain why they look similar to us, the only difference in appearance being the wings.

I can’t find the document though, when I searched for it, but it’s somewhere. I tried to find it in my bookmarks, but I might not have added it there. I don’t even remember the title.

Even though the angels, not being limited to time and space, are naturally more intelligent than we are, it is said that God “made men a little less than the angels”. The keyword here is little, and so we have the capacity to be as glorified as the angelic beings are, particularly once we reach Heaven.

We, like Jesus, are made a little lower than the angels.
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

But, we shall judge angels in the next life.
1 Corinthians 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Unlike humans, angels have never experienced God’s greatest attribute “Divine Mercy”