The Intelligent Universe by James Gardner

Author:James Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

And what if ET turns out to be an atheist or an agnostic? In Tarter’s view, although this discovery would not immediately extinguish religious faith on planet Earth, it would render the future of terrestrial religion tenuous at best:“Subsequent generations of humans, who mature with the knowledge of the existence of other technologies having long histories and no apparent need for religion, will find it harder and harder to subscribe to the unique terrestrial beliefs.”8

A final possibility—and one that has arguably manifested itself already—is that “it is possible that we shall some day detect evidence of an extraterrestrial technology, without the ability to learn anything about the technologists or their theology. They exist; we are not alone. But what happens next?”9 What would happen next is certainly a mystery, but perhaps not an inscrutable enigma, forever opaque to human insight and the tools of science.

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