Rogan and Trump talk about aliens for four minutes
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I can understand the Trump criticism, but it is perfectly acceptable to be a Bible believing Christian and acknowledge the possible, or actual, existence of non-human life and alternate planes of reality.
You'd have to make that work in the Christian cosmology. According to scripture there are 4 categories of created beings - angels (demons are in this category), animals, man and Nephilim (the result of humans and angels interbreeding).
Your limiting yourself. For instance, there are at least four alternate dimensions: heaven, hell, the material realm, and purgatory. But nothing Biblical precludes other material realms, if not that it hints at it.
On the far side of the universe, or in alternate ones, there could be a species that is immortal, having never fallen like man.
Yes, I'm limiting myself to what the Church teaches about cosmology and our world. The path of truth is straight and narrow.
Metaverse and realities beside our world and the Kingdom of God make no sense in Christianity. This is wild speculation and fantasy at best and gnostic heresy at worst. The term species itself is not Christian at all. It originates from evo theory and presupposes naturalism. Man is a unique creature made in the image of God and not a product of speciation of biological life.
Is there a reason God has not revealed the creation of another such creature in the creation story? I take it you're Catholic, so you should be aware your Church teaches that God has deposited His revelation in fullness starting with the OT prophets and ending at Pentecost and the establishment of the Church as the new Ark of the covenant.
What church teaching you what?
When John wrote Revelation, that's the end of "public revelation." However, that still does not preclude other universes or aliens. Deeper thinkers than you thought long and hard about this, and they didn't have the answers you do. Either way, scripture applies to humans.