…with the James Web Telescope looking for sources of artificial light to identify potential intelligent life, and the news this week of Perseverance searching for microbial life on Mars it feels like we are getting closer to a major discovery. But what - if anything - would it mean for the religions on Earth if life is proven to exist out there?
Saint Thomas Aquinas taught it was possible that non-human intelligent life existed out there. He said it was improbable but theologically possible. So I think the Catholics will handle it well.
I wonder if the RCC already has a plan to cover up one of their preists molesting aliens.