And I don't mean illegeals. From Hollywood, to our media, in science and now religion.
In May of 2008 the pope stated this:
the universe could contain intelligent life beyond Earth, while insisting that aliens would be "our brothers" and "children of God" as much as human beings are.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/popes-astronomer-insists-alien-life-would-be-part-of-gods-creation-828303.html Excuse me if I am wrong, but no where in the Bible does it ever claim that God created aliens.
On November 10th, 2009 Fox news issued this article:
Vatican Seeks Signs of Alien Life
VATICAN CITY - 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.
This is quite disturbing to me as I have often wondered if Satan would not use E.T's in his grand scheme to deceive christians as well as unbeliever's that God's rapture had taken place, in the form of aliens beaming them up. Sort of like the scene from Knowing.
Now I firmly believe that aliens are the "sons of God" that are mentioned in the book of Genesis.
Genesis 6
1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
These beings are not aliens...they are demons.