NASA hires religious scholars to determine how the major religions around the world would react if humanity contact with aliens
recruited at least 24 scholars so far to participate in a program at Princeton University’s Centre of Theological Inquiry in New Jersey.its main objective as building “bridges of understanding” between academics of various disciplines, scientists, and policymakers on “global concerns.”
University of Cambridge religious scholar, Rev Dr Andrew Davison, who also holds a doctorate in biochemistry from Oxford, is among the participants of the NASA-sponsored programme at CTI.In his forthcoming book, named Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine, Davison considers the possibility of God creating life elsewhere in the universe, based on his research at Princeton, emphasising the possibility of finding alien life is becoming more real.
“Detection [of alien life] might come in a decade or only in future centuries or perhaps never at all, but if or where it does, it will be useful to have thought through the implications in advance.” Meanwhile, Carl Pilcher, a former head of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute, said that the agency hired theologians to “consider the implications of applying the tools of late 20th century science to questions that had been considered in religious traditions for hundreds or thousands of years”.“That’s just inconceivable when there are over 100 billion stars in this galaxy, and over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
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