What if someday we detect a signal from outer space that turned out to be the Fibonacci sequence? Would that be proof of extraterrestrial intelligence? Be careful how you answer!
extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial Life Comes from Earth?
The Uncommon Descent blog has some pull quotes from an article from the Technology Review/Physics Archive blog entitled, The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth that make that point. This is the idea that, when earth was struck by space objects...
Are We Alone? A Summary of the Issues
I just listened to a short podcast from the Skeptoid blog entitled, "Are We Alone." It's a good, succinct survey of the problems and obstacles to being optimistic about other inhabited worlds and intelligent civilizations -- in terms of there being such a thing, our...
Intelligent Panspermia News
Over on Uncommon Descent, there is a short news blurb about scientists who have suggested ETs could be responsible for life on earth. Yeah, it's short, but still worth bookmarking.
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 2
To review the purpose of this thread, I suggested at the outset that there were four aspects to the Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are...
Stephen Hawking: Look Out for ET (And the Tooth Fairy)
Because the wish of ET life out there moved to religious trajectory a long time ago. Pardon me for being a curmudgeon, but all this well-circulated story amounts to is a very bright physicist warning us about beings that, with respect to hard scientific evidence,...
Rich Dolan Interview and Thoughts on Parsing “Non-Human Intelligences”
Below is a (roughly) ten minute interview of Rich Dolan from the 2008 Laughlin, NV UFO conference. It's very good. Rich is always a good listen (and a good read). I also personally like him, so I may be a bit biased. I agree entirely with his assessment that UFOs are...
Are Christians the Only Ones Who Consider ET Evil?
I wanted to share some thoughts on the most recent Partridge article I posted. Basically, I want to make sure you all caught some of his more important ideas, and to share some thoughts of my own with respect to those ideas. First, Partridge lays out his thesis very...
Christian Theologians Prepare for ET Life
Another regurgitation of the typical popular article that covers this topic every year. Yes, it's superficial; yes, it has to quote a Baptist pastor who gives little indication of ever having thought deeply about the subject. BUT ... it offers some new things, like...
The Fermi Paradox Made Simple and Cool
Here you go - well worth a watch. Hat tip to Mr. Tudor for this. Remember this the next time someone starts talking about the likelihood of alien contact.
TIME Magazine and (Exo)Theological Ignorance
I saw this essay from TIME Magazine pop up on Twitter today: "Dabbling in Exotheology." The date of the essay was 1978 (unless that's a typo). The essay opens with this question: "Can the "image of God" survive in extraterrestrial life?" An understandable one, but an...
Review of Leslie Kean’s UFOs
Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (Three Rivers Press, 2011). I read Leslie Kean's book a few months ago but haven't gotten around to a review until now. Readers should not take that delay as a sign of my own reticence or...
Another Scientist Expresses Skepticism Over Cardinal Doctrine of All ET Religions
Astrophysicist John Gribbon's new book Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. The reviewer refers to the book as "grimly plausible" and notes that Gribbon has a firm grasp on something obvious to all those who...
Could We Tell An Advanced ET from God?
Famous atheist Michael Shermer asks that question here. It's a good overview of things to think about in this regard. I am in basic agreement that the existence of an advanced ET would be embraced as God by many, perhaps most. But despite the article's strengths, it...
“The” Christian View of Aliens, Part 2
In my first (awfully long) installment on this topic, I wrote about how it is unwise to suggest there is or can only be one Christian view of intelligent alien life, should such life be proven factual someday. In the course of that installment, I alluded to certain...