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Diglotting has posted asking how much Christian theology might be affected by the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life<\/a>. It\u2019s something that I\u2019ve blogged about here before, and since it is a topic that interests me, I thought it deserved a link!<\/p>\n

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Diglotting has posted asking how much Christian theology might be affected by the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life. It\u2019s something that I\u2019ve blogged about here before, and since it is a topic that interests me, I thought it deserved a link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nDiglotting, Theology and Aliens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Diglotting has posted asking how much Christian theology might be affected by the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life. 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