Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence write by David Wilkinson. This book was released on 2013-08. Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, taking seriously the current scientific arguments and its implications for religion.
Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence write by David Wilkinson. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion? Would it represent another major conflict between science and religion, even leading to the death of faith? Some would suggest that the discovery of any suggestion of extraterrestrial life would have a greater impact than even the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions. It is now over 50 years since the first modern scientific papers were published on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Yet the religious implications of this search and possible discovery have never been systematically addressed in the scientific or theological arena. SETI is now entering its most important era of scientific development. New observation techniques are leading to the discovery of extra-solar planets daily, and the Kepler mission has already collected over 1000 planetary candidates. This deluge of data is transforming the scientific and popular view of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Earth-like planets outside of our solar system can now be identified and searched for signs of life. Now is a crucial time to assess the scientific and theological questions behind this search. This book sets out the scientific arguments undergirding SETI, with particular attention to the uncertainties in arguments and the strength of the data already assembled. It assesses not only the discovery of planets but other areas such as the Fermi paradox, the origin and evolution of intelligent life, and current SETI strategies. In all of this it reflects on how these questions are shaped by history and pop culture and their relationship with religion, especially Christian theology. It is argued that theologians need to take seriously SETI and to examine some central doctrines such as creation, incarnation, revelation, and salvation in the light of the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination write by John Traphagan. This book was released on 2014-11-07. Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) represents one of the most significant crossroads at which the assumptions and methods of scientific inquiry come into direct contact with—and in many cases conflict with—those of religion. Indeed, at the core of SETI is the same question that motivates many interested in religion: What is the place of humanity in the universe? Both scientists involved with SETI (and in other areas) and those interested in and dedicated to some religious traditions are engaged in contemplating these types of questions, even if their respective approaches and answers differ significantly. This book explores this intersection with a focus on three core points: 1) the relationship between science and religion as it is expressed within the framework of SETI research, 2) the underlying assumptions, many of which are tacitly based upon cultural values common in American society, that have shaped the ways in which SETI researchers have conceptualized the nature of their endeavor and represented ideas about the potential influence contact might have on human civilization, and 3) what sort of empirical evidence we might be able to access as a way of thinking about the social impact that contact with alien intelligence might have for humanity, from both religious and cultural perspectives. The book developed as a result of a course the author teaches at the University of Texas at Austin: Religion, Science, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Exotheology
Exotheology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exotheology write by Joel L. Parkyn. This book was released on 2021-08-31. Exotheology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Speculation regarding the plurality of worlds and the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials has remained an important question for Christian theology from antiquity until modernity. Advancements in space science now reveal a vast universe containing trillions of galaxies, and new discoveries of exoplanets, providing an unprecedented greater context and perspective in consideration of the place of humanity, possible intelligent extraterrestrials, and the role of divinity in relation to creatures. These scientific discoveries have increased the importance of understanding the relation of extraterrestrials to the Christian doctrines of the incarnation and redemption. An examination of the history of developments in scientific and theological thought on extraterrestrials, from antiquity to the twenty-first century will demonstrate a consistent pattern of theological formulations of extraterrestrials and their relation to Christian theology, however, without sufficient resolution. En route, this book explores ideas of extraterrestrial ‘anthropology’, psychology, morphological possibilities, sociological compositions, extraterrestrial religions, implications of contact, and argues for a ‘divine pedagogy’ of potential modalities of supernatural presence and action with extraterrestrial intelligences.
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence write by David Lamb. This book was released on 2005-07-26. The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at SETI's validity as a research programme and examines recent attempts to contact other intelligent life forms. Also assesses theories on the origin of life on Earth, discoveries of former solar planets and proposals for space colonies.
