By Helen McCaw and David Broadwell – Jesuit Father José Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and former director of the Vatican Observatory told the Associated Press, November 10, 2009, “The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration.”
The scientific community will tell you about the Fermi Paradox and its solutions: an advanced extraterrestrial civilization probably exists in some galaxy far far away, or existed at some point in the past, during the billions of years that went by before our solar system came into being. Mainstream scientists like to think the Fermi Paradox is solved because extraterrestrial civilizations are either long since extinct, or they reassuringly can’t beat the speed of light to get here any time soon.