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> Spiral UFO puts Norway in a Spin
Posted by SOUL-DRIFTER - 12-9-09 10:30 - 0 comments
Dunno....

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The phenomenon was yesterday dubbed 'Star-Gate' - as the world's top scientists and the military lined up to admit they were baffled.


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The spiral spectacle - which lasted for two minutes - was seen by vast swathes of the Scandinavian country's almost five million population, with sightings as far north as Finnmark to Trondelag in the south.


http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1209/spiral-ufo.php
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...-in-a-spin.html
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> Michigan Bigfoot Sightings On the Rise
Posted by SOUL-DRIFTER - 12-9-09 10:18 - 0 comments
Seems Ole Footy has been frequenting dumpsters a lot lately. This is the 3rd or 4th one I read about this year.

http://glossynews.com/society/human-intere...gs-on-the-rise/
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> Where We Should Look For Bigfoot Bones
Posted by SOUL-DRIFTER - 12-9-09 10:12 - 0 comments
Here is some of Loren Coleman's ideas as to why we haven't found bigfoot bones.

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Porcupines will eat away whole racks of antlers and most of the bones of any animal.


http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/bigfoot-bones/
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> The Norwegian Incident
Posted by Bullseyebuddha - 12-9-09 08:34 - 6 comments
This morning, at 0740 norwegian time, an incident was sighted from the northern parts Norway. Actually from sites houndreds of miles apart.


http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27553

The theory is a lost russian missile..
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> Boscombe Down incident 1994
Posted by Jigglyp - 12-9-09 06:04 - 0 comments
Does anyone have any further info on this?

I used to live about a mile form the airfield around the time and did see some odd things but nothing conclusive!


Boscombe Down Incident

Its too recent to have been the F117 so could be something new!
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> My Journal Its something I did just for a bit Havent done any lately
Posted by billyjack25 - 12-9-09 00:32 - 0 comments
For those ready this I am fine I suffer from Depression


Sunday October 25th 9:49pm


Today is the first day of my new journal. I have decided to start this to explain this in the future. I am starting this to keep track of my life. My life is kinda hard to explain in ways. I beleive that the world is ending. I have been listening to Coast to Coast on xm lately and it has made me kinda beleive and understand. I beleive and feel someting bigger coming that I cant understand but its bigger than anything that has been here before. Im not the only 1 that feels this. Tom also feels this and alot of people in this world feels this I beleive or feel that we are coming to a turning point in this world. I beleive that either the world is going to drastically change or we are evolving to something or something big is going to happen. I sometimes think i am loosing my mind but i have got over that and now feel somewhat releived. I have recently quit smokeing weed and i have smoked weed for the past 9 years and now that i have quit i dont see anything wrong with it and now feel that i dont need it but would like to do it again when i smoked weed i never really payed attention to the signs that are all around me. Ii am a free thinker and sometimes let the feeling build around me and when i smoked weed i would feel all the signs but would not focus in on them now that i have quit i feel them more powerful then ever a d focus on them more then i did i know someting is going to happen and I know something will happen just i dont know when and dont know what it will be i know this is going to sound kinda bad but i hope something will happen drastically so the world will change we are way overdue for a big change I know when when the unmentionable does happen its going to touch everyone. the maker will return and with its return it will bring great change and drastic stuff. everyone needs to be watching the stars the stars hold all the answers this talk in the book of thhe bible about revalations isnt all what its talked up to be the stars hold all the answers the end is near but its not going to be the end of the world but the beginning of a new world everyone talkes about the antichrist coming at the end and no one knows who it will b but i beleive the antichrist has already came and that the antichrist was christ himself cause if u look at it the antichrist was supposed to make people worship him and follow him and look what jesus done people worship him and not god god stated to worship no man but god and jesus is not god jesus was a man i beleive that the government is more behind the bible then everyone thinks and knows the government is going to bring the end of the world.

Wednesday October 28th 3:36pm

Today I am in Philadelphia heading to North Carolina. Im getting tired of being on te road and im yurning to find me someone speacial. I dont know if I will ever find true happiness. All I want is someone that im acctracted too and someone that really loves me for me and my looks. I have always said that I like older but in fact its not the older guys I like, I mean I do like older but I want a guy with boyish looks. I want someone that I am attracted 2 and that I wont have a temptation to go cheat on him. I urn to be loved and to love. Im so depressed and I have been thinking of suicide here lately I mean i have always thought about it but now since I havnt been smoking weed I have been thinking harder about killing my self. I dont consider it to be wrong of thinking this way. I feel that God is pushing me to do something with my life and maybe its to kill my self and move on. This world isnt right for me. I dont cope with anything in this world so far and i dont think i will ever find anything that I will cope with. I do want to die so bad that its unreal My life is like a big mystery and im to affraid to put the puzzle together I know that no one understands this but I feel like I was ment for greater than my life is. I am a free thinker. I think about all the negatives and positives and whatifs. Most people to my knoledge do this 2 but my mind ner stops . I beleive everthing has a purpose and that sometimes mayby we are to move on in this life to the other life to make someones life here happen. Like I said there is a purpose for everthing.



Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:57pm


I dont really have anything to say. Im depressed more today then i have been for a while. I have been wanting to kill myself but i dont know how to do it i dont want to be here anymore i just want to dissappear


Friday, October 30, 2009 7:57pm



Today is a weird day. I feel all alone and I feel that there is a purpose in my life that i am not full filling. why dosnt my life work. I feel like there is more to the eye to my life. I still feel like there is something big about to happen. I cant wait till the day the earth changes. I fill like it is going to be soon. I feel a ripple in space well not space but in the human socioty. I know there is going to be drastic changes here in the next year or 2. I feel like there is something coming. I can speculate on what i think is coming but im not sure on what it is. I think it might be an asteroid or maybe just maybe aliens. See I beleive in aliens but i have never seen 1 or anything i can not explain but i feel the presence of the unknown everyday. I think that ther is going to be major changes in the way the people look at life its self and by saying that i mean like aliens coming and changing the way people look and live there lives. People are going to not beleive in god anymore when aliens come to earth. They are already here but they just have not madde them selves known on a public bases. The time is here now and is going to happen sooner then people realize. We are due for a drastic change in this world. I cant wait for this to happen. I know the people in this world are ready and the ones that arnt ready will cope with it and realize all the things in life that are unexplained will be explained in the end. I beleive that when this all happens yes people will freak out a little but we will have questions. I guess im going to have to wait for this time to come and pass before i get my answers. I wish there was a way for them to contact me and change my mind. I mean i do beleive in them but if i knew for a fact that they were there it would change my life for the better. Please o please come change my life.

Monday, November 02, 2009 5:57pm

Today I am haveing a good day. were right now in Atlanta Georgia, were heading to Russelville Kentucky. I havnet been worrying aoub the end of the world lately. I have been haveing weird dreams lately. I cant really remember all my dreams but I know there is going to be something interesting and drastic happen soon.


Friday, November 06, 2009 11:26pm

Today is a weird day. I feel something big coming. I feel like im being watched and followed. There is more then meets the eye with this world. There is going to be meteor showers tonight thrue the 13th. I beleive taht there will be a major event happen between now and then. We are not all going to witness this but we will all know of this. It might be a meteor hitting the planet or something from like out of the twilight zone. We can only wait and see. Sometime my mind goes blank and i dont know what to say but then sometimes my mind if filled with all kinds of knowledge. I feel the people of this earth can learn alot from me and i can learn alot from them. Like i have said we only now have to wait and see the future. The people in this world are getting scared and what do people do when they get scared they panic. We all I think know deep down in side that we are on a sinking ship and we have nothing but shark infested waters around us. We have nowere to go but the help is right above our heads. We will soon find the answers we all hope for. We are all going to have the earth change right infront of our eyes. We know this is going to happen but its now like i said a waiting game and just have to wait for the time to come. Maybe im completly wrong. Maybe its going to be an upriseing of the people on this earth or my land. Maybe its going to be a lie thats been covered up by our own government. All I know is something BIG is coming and I cant wait for it to happen. I am so excited over what the future holds, cause the present that I curently live in is not a good one. I just cant wait for the furture. IM READY


Monday, November 09, 2009 3:06pm


Today is another day in the world of unknowing. I know that the end is nearing and the end isnt going to be the end but the beginning of a new world. Alot of things are going to happpen. I am awaiting the end here and frankly I cant wait Well I can wait but Im eager to see the end and the beginning of a new ending. My way of thinking is kinda weird i know but this is the only way we can survive the future. The end is near people. Dont you forget it.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:37am


Today is going to be a different day. I know there is going to be something different. I feel that the end of the world is going to be comeing. I await this happending. I feel that the end is near REALLY NEAR. I know this is going to sound bad but I cant wait for the end to happen. I dont really want the end to kill people but with disasters come change. This world is due for a great change. The only way this world changes is by depleting it of the people that wont let the change happen. With this said I know wait for the change and the changing of the face of the world. Hopefully this is going to be the beginning of the end of the world.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:27pm


Today I feel that there is going to be something happen. I had some weird dreams last night. My dreams were about meteors and comits hitting the earth and to beat it all we are supposed to have a meteor shower tonight. I cant wait for thsi to happen I think it is going to be interesting. Now I can only sit back and wait for the end to happen

Monday, November 16, 2009 9:55pm

Today is a bad day to me. Im very depressed and just want the day to end. My coast to coast is getting ready to come on. I wish that this world would end. It would be a hell of alot better if it would just end and make it were i wouldnt have to kill my self.


Friday, November 20, 2009 6:33pm


Today I guess is a good day. Im not really feeling very good but im still haveing a good day. Right now we are slowing down in traffic. I guess its a regular backup but u never know. Now the other day we had a asteroid strike across the sky and explode in the sky above nevada. Now in my dreams that I wrote about in this journal I stated about this and that is was coming, but this isnt going to be the big 1 that hits we are just seeing the tip of the ice burge right now and its going to be a major life changing event and it will soon come to be a reality.

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> Should We Be Worshiping Jesus
Posted by billyjack25 - 12-9-09 00:17 - 6 comments
I am not hateing anyones religion or beleives. Im just stateing facts and my thoughts on the matter. So here it goes


Why do people worship Jesus when the Bible and GOD says not to worship no man only the alpha and omega. But look what people do with Jesus. The worship him and actually say in Gods name amen. The bible says the antichrist is going to have the power of god which Jesus did have. He is going to make millions follow him which Jesus does. He would have people kill in his name and what do people kill over Religion thinking there god is better then yours. But thats were we all go wrong. The Alpha and Omega. the great and powerfull all knowing is in everyone. God dosnt see religion in his eyes he sees his children on all different paths. God will make everything better. They way I see it we are going to probably see GOD as an alien cause he will be like an alien cause we are made in the IMAGE of him not exact match. I dont really have alot to say about this in words but In talking face to face I can make people see the truth and Im not actually speaking the truth. Im just speaking the way my heart and soul sees it.
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> My Dream
Posted by billyjack25 - 12-9-09 00:04 - 1 comments
I dont know where to start But something is coming. I have been haveing the same dream of a meteor like object busting thru the clouds and lighting up the sky in the day time. I also have been noticing the birds have been acting strangly lately and I drive an 18 wheeler all over the 48 states in the usa. The Birds here lately have been just dropping out of the sky and some i dont know if its a fluke or not are even getting agresive . Hase anyone else whitnessed this yet. The World I beleive is going to get a big face lift, but not for the bad but for the good. The time of EVOLUTION is appon us and we need to get ready for a very major big event. Yes I know that the topics I have talked about arnt really out there or exciteing but the real excitement is already happening. Everyone just watch the skies and wait. We are going to see some life changing events happen from now till 2012 Oh and for those who have been worried that 2012 is going to be the end of the world its not. Its going to be the end of the way the world lives today. Life is changing and with change the world the way we know it is going to be cast away and the new world is going to happen and no im not talking about the alluminati Im talking about EVOLUTION
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> Funny alien video
Posted by groundedufo - 12-8-09 18:15 - 0 comments
Guys this video is hilarious! An alien is talking about how hard it is to make friends and missing the ones that he's eaten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByyJYiqo_eQ
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> Takitaro
Posted by SOUL-DRIFTER - 12-8-09 17:24 - 1 comments
Boy, think of the fish steaks you coulde get from a fish that size sad.gif


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The lake is also known for a perplexing natural mystery. Otori-ike is said to be the home of giant fish lurking within its depths; fish known locally as takitaro.


http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/takitaro/
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> The 3 Top UFO Case in Ufological History...
Posted by Approaching - 12-8-09 14:51 - 4 comments
Title typo - The Top 3 UFO Cases in Ufological History.
#3 The Story of Bob Lazar.

Robert Scott Lazar or Bob Lazar, (Born January 26, 1959, in Coral Gables, Florida, United States to Albert Lazar and Phyllis Berliner) claims to have worked from 1988 until 1989 as a physicist at an area called S-4 (Sector Four), located near Groom Lake, Nevada, next to Area 51.[citation needed] According to Lazar, S-4 served as a hidden military location for the study of and possibly reverse engineering extraterrestrial flying saucers. Lazar says he saw nine different discs there and provides details on their mode of propulsion. His critics have pointed out that "Lazar's credibility crumbled" after "schools he was supposed to have attended had no record of him, while others in the scientific community had no memory of ever meeting him."[2]

Biography

In November 1989, Lazar appeared in a special interview with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS to discuss his alleged employment at S-4. In his interview with Knapp, Lazar said he first thought the saucers were secret, terrestrial aircraft, whose test flights must have been responsible for many UFO reports. Gradually, on closer examination and from having been shown multiple briefing documents, Lazar came to the conclusion that the discs must have been of extraterrestrial origin. In his filmed testimony, Lazar explains how this impression first hit him after he boarded the craft under study and examined their interior.

For the propulsion of the studied vehicles, Bob Lazar claims that the atomic element 115 served as a nuclear fuel. Element 115 (nicknamed 'Ununpentium' (Uup)) reportedly provided an energy source which would produce anti-gravity effects under proton bombardment along with the production of antimatter used for energy production. Lazar's website says, as the intense strong nuclear force field of element 115's nucleus would be properly amplified, the resulting effect would be a distortion of the surrounding gravitational field, allowing the vehicle to immediately shorten the distance to a charted destination.[3]

Lazar also claims that he was given introductory briefings describing the historical involvement by extraterrestrial beings with this planet for 10,000 years. The beings originate from the Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2 star system and are therefore referred to as Zeta Reticulians, popularly called 'Greys'.[4]

Lazar says he has degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1993, the Los Angeles Times looked into his background and found there was no evidence to support his claims.[1] Stanton Friedman was only able to verify that Lazar took electronics courses in the late 1970s at Pierce Junior College.
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> The climate agenda and the brain drain.
Posted by comfortablynumb - 12-8-09 08:56 - 6 comments
On June 20, 1977, Anglia TV in England broadcast a documentary as part of a regular series called 'Science Report'. They had intended to air a show about the British 'brain-drain', about how British scientists were leaving the country to find higher-paying jobs abroad, but in the course of their investigation they discovered that many of the scientists they sought to interview weren't just leaving the country. They appeared to be mysteriously disappearing from the face of the Earth itself.

The disappearance of these scientists prompted the news team to investigate further, and what they ultimately uncovered was a vast, global conspiracy reaching to the very highest levels of the American and Soviet governments. Apparently back in the 1950s researchers had learned that the Earth, on account of man's actions, was facing an unstoppable environmental catastrophe which would result in the almost certain extinction of humanity itself. World governments were left with only three options. They were:
  • Alternative 1—to drastically reduce the human population on Earth;
  • Alternative 2—to construct vast underground shelters to house government officials until the crisis had stabilized;
  • and Alternative 3—to establish a "Noah's Ark" colony of humanity's best and brightest off of the planet, preferably on Mars.
The reality of the looming crisis had prompted high-level officials in the American and Soviet governments to collaborate in order to make Alternative 3 a reality.

Through interviews with astronauts and scientists, the documentary pieces together evidence that reveals the Soviets and Americans, working together, had reached Mars as early as 1961 and that the Apollo Space Program had been nothing but a publicity decoy to conceal the true purpose behind NASA's numerous rocket launches.

The episode began by detailing the so-called "brain drain:" a number of mysterious disappearances and deaths of physicsts, engineers, astronomers, and others in related fields. Among the strange deaths reported was that of one "Professor Ballantine" of Jordell Bank. Before his death, Ballantine managed to deliver a videotape to an academic friend.

The episode features an Apollo astronaut, Bob Grodin, who stumbled on a mysterious lunar base during his moonwalk.
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> A collecton of veiws on and experiences with parallel universes
Posted by Short_Hair_Fan - 12-8-09 01:13 - 1 comments
Found this group over on Experience Project where I hang out a lot. Some of it is kind of hoaky but there are some interesting story's and a few experiences as well

http://www.experienceproject.com/group_stories.php?g=36359
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> Think you know about kids?
Posted by comfortablynumb - 12-8-09 00:24 - 5 comments
Data shows that many seemingly innocent children—such as this one—are not to be trusted.

A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures.
According to Dr. Leonard Mateo, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, most adults are completely unaware that they could be living among callous monsters who would remorselessly exploit them to obtain something as insignificant as an ice cream cone or a new toy.

"The most disturbing facet of this ubiquitous childhood disorder is an utter lack of empathy," Mateo said. "These people—if you can even call them that—deliberately violate every social norm without ever pausing to consider how their selfish behavior might affect others. It's as if they have no concept of anyone but themselves."

"The depths of depravity that these tiny psychopaths are capable of reaching are really quite chilling," Mateo added.

According to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a clinical diagnostic tool, sociopaths often display superficial charm, pathological lying, manipulative behaviors, and a grandiose sense of self-importance. After observing 700 children engaged in everyday activities, Mateo and his colleagues found that 684 exhibited these behaviors at a severe or profound level.

The children studied also displayed many secondary hallmarks of antisocial personality disorder, most notably poor impulse control, an inability to plan ahead, and a proclivity for violence—often in the form of extended tantrums—when their needs were not immediately met.

"Children will use any tool at their disposal to secure gratification," Mateo said. "And as soon as the desire is fulfilled, be it some material want or simply an insatiable and narcissistic desire for validation, they quickly become bored and lose interest in their victims, all the while thinking only of satisfying whatever their next hedonistic craving might be."

Mateo added that even when subjects were directly confronted with the consequences of their inexplicable behavior, they had little or no capacity for expressing guilt, other than insincere utterances of "sorry" that were usually coerced.

Because children are so skilled at mimicking normal human emotions and will say anything without consideration for accuracy or truth, Mateo said that people often don't realize that they've been exploited until it is too late. Though he maintained that anyone can fall victim to a child's egocentric behavior, Mateo warned that grandmothers were especially susceptible to the self- serving machinations of tiny little sociopaths.

Despite the overwhelming evidence presented in the study, its findings have been met with heavy criticism from people who associate with children on a regular basis.

Batavia, NY resident and 38-year-old mother Mary Corcoran echoed the sentiments of many other adults who refuse to believe they are sharing their homes with merciless predators.

"Not my Jimmy. Just this morning, he told me I was the best mommy in the whole world," Corcoran said of her son, 5. "In fact, he's been such a sweet little boy this month that Santa just may bring him everything he asks for."

According to renowned child psychologist Dr. Pritha Singh, author of Born Without Souls, diagnosing preadolecents as sociopaths is primarily a theoretical interest, as the disorder is considered untreatable.

"We've tried behavior modification therapies, but children actually learn from our techniques and become even more adept at manipulating others while concealing their shameless misanthropy," Singh said. "Sadly, experience has taught us there is little hope for rehabilitation."

"Just look at the way most adults act," Singh added. Here.
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> Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life
Posted by Ria - 12-8-09 00:04 - 0 comments
Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life

E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

"The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.

Funes said the possibility of alien life raises "many philosophical and theological implications" but added that the gathering was mainly focused on the scientific perspective and how different disciplines can be used to explore the issue.

Chris Impey, an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona, said it was appropriate that the Vatican would host such a meeting.

"Both science and religion posit life as a special outcome of a vast and mostly inhospitable universe," he told a news conference Tuesday. "There is a rich middle ground for dialogue between the practitioners of astrobiology and those who seek to understand the meaning of our existence in a biological universe."

Thirty scientists, including non-Catholics, from the U.S., France, Britain, Switzerland, Italy and Chile attended the conference, called to explore among other issues "whether sentient life forms exist on other worlds."

Funes set the stage for the conference a year ago when he discussed the possibility of alien life in an interview given prominence in the Vatican's daily newspaper.

The Church of Rome's views have shifted radically through the centuries since Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 for speculating, among other ideas, that other worlds could be inhabited.

Scientists have discovered hundreds of planets outside our solar system — including 32 new ones announced recently by the European Space Agency. Impey said the discovery of alien life may be only a few years away.

"If biology is not unique to the Earth, or life elsewhere differs bio-chemically from our version, or we ever make contact with an intelligent species in the vastness of space, the implications for our self-image will be profound," he said.

This is not the first time the Vatican has explored the issue of extraterrestrials: In 2005, its observatory brought together top researchers in the field for similar discussions.

In the interview last year, Funes told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that believing the universe may host aliens, even intelligent ones, does not contradict a faith in God.

"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said in that interview.

"Just as there is a multitude of creatures on Earth, there could be other beings, even intelligent ones, created by God. This does not contradict our faith, because we cannot put limits on God's creative freedom."

Funes maintained that if intelligent beings were discovered, they would also be considered "part of creation."

The Roman Catholic Church's relationship with science has come a long way since Galileo was tried as a heretic in 1633 and forced to recant his finding that the Earth revolves around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.

Today top clergy, including Funes, openly endorse scientific ideas like the Big Bang theory as a reasonable explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.

Earlier this year, the Vatican also sponsored a conference on evolution to mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species."

The event snubbed proponents of alternative theories, like creationism and intelligent design, which see a higher being rather than the undirected process of natural selection behind the evolution of species.

Still, there are divisions on the issues within the Catholic Church and within other religions, with some favoring creationism or intelligent design that could make it difficult to accept the concept of alien life.

Working with scientists to explore fundamental questions that are of interest to religion is in line with the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made strengthening the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.

Recent popes have been working to overcome the accusation that the church was hostile to science — a reputation grounded in the Galileo affair.

In 1992, Pope John Paul II declared the ruling against the astronomer was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension."

The Vatican Museums opened an exhibit last month marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first celestial observations.

Tommaso Maccacaro, president of Italy's national institute of astrophysics, said at the exhibit's Oct. 13 opening that astronomy has had a major impact on the way we perceive ourselves.

"It was astronomical observations that let us understand that Earth (and man) don't have a privileged position or role in the universe," he said. "I ask myself what tools will we use in the next 400 years, and I ask what revolutions of understanding they'll bring about, like resolving the mystery of our apparent cosmic solitude."

The Vatican Observatory has also been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world's best.

The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has his summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.

http://www.truthseekersvideo.com
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