An interesting article from the UK Express about indeterminate signals from space. Enjoy!
SETI
How Scientists Could Be Fooled Into Thinking They’ve Found Extraterrestrial Life
That’s the title of an interesting and appropriately cautionary essay by George Dvorsky. He also wrote a piece entitled “14 Intriguing Ways We Could Detect Signs Of An Alien Civilization.” Here’s another article on how scientists could also...
Theology, Politics, and Astrobiology
It’s been nearly two weeks since I attended the annual scholarly society meetings for scholars in my field of study and interest: the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), the Near East Archaeological Society (NEAS), the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR),...
Templeton Foundation Funding Search for Alien Spacecraft … Really
The Templeton foundation has awarded $200,000 to astronomer Geoff Marcy (UC-Berkeley) to see if he can detect alien spacecraft passing in front of distant stars. Before you laugh, Marcy is easily the most famous astronomer among those detecting extra-solar planets....
DNA as Indicative of Intelligent Design: New Peer-Reviewed Journal Article with a SETI Twist
The Uncommon Descent blog reports that “in the planetary science journal, Icarus, two scientists argue that the genetic code bears the hallmarks of an intelligent cause.” The blog quotes the abstract which reads in part: It has been repeatedly proposed to...
Probability of ET Life Arbitrarily Small
That’s the verdict of astrobiologists on the MIT Technology Review. Now, despite the iterative hoopla on the web and in the popular media about how there *must* be ET life out there, this isn’t the first time mainstream scientists have argued that the...
SETI Suspending Its Work
Here’s a link to the news that SETI is shutting down (at least for the time being) due to lack of funding. Had it not been for the federal government dogged pursuit of throwing money down rat holes, SETI would have been long defunct in the world of private...
Ancient Astronauts as a Belief System: An Academic Overview
I found this rare gem recently — and academic journal article (2006) on ancient astronaut beliefs (“paleo-SETI”). It’s unusual that this would get any attention within academia, so I share it with all of you. From the conclusion (emphasis...
Seth Shostak’s Statement of ET Faith
Read it here . Really – what’s the difference between saying “in 25 years I believe we’ll have proof of God’s existence” vs. “In 25 years I believe we’ll have proof of ETs?” Nothing (although the latter might take...
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,...
Recent Discussion On ET Life and Implications for Christian Theology
I’m swallowing hard in posting this since the conversation includes Paul Davies, whom I have suggested should be kept as far away from theological discussion as possible. But, he’s balanced by John Lennox, who should know something about Christianity...
Atheism and Belief in Intelligent ET: Trusting in The Blessed Equation
Over the course of the last couple of days we’ve been treated once again to the parade of astronomers and astrobiologists pontificating on the likelihood that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. In the wake of a couple of decades of failure on...
Thoughts on “Roman Catholic Views of Extraterrestrial Intelligence”
As noted in an earlier post, the document When SETI Succeeds: The Impact of High-Information Contact contains an interesting essay entitled, “Roman Catholic Views of Extraterresrial Intelligence” by Douglas A. Vakoch. The essay begins on page 181 of the...
Religious Implications of SETI’s Success, Part 1
I’d like to thank RRRGroup of the UFO Iconoclasts blog for bringing a recent (2000) document to my attention. The document concerns the SETI program and the implications for humanity should SETI succeed in making contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life....