{"id":26444,"date":"2014-10-10T07:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=26444"},"modified":"2014-10-10T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:52:46","slug":"extraterrestrials-and-human-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/10\/extraterrestrials-and-human-religions.html","title":{"rendered":"Extraterrestrials and Human Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2014\/10\/02\/how-would-discovering-extraterrestrial-life-affect-the-worlds-religions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta shared<\/a> the above\u00a0video, which is based on a new book by \u00a0astronomer David Weintraub, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3319050559\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=3319050559&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=AKVLYH5KWSLXKCBR\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3319050559\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i>. It might be one to incorporate into a class of mine on either religion and science, or religion and science fiction (the subject spans the two, not yet being something known, but something that we may possibly discover in the future, at which point science fiction would become science fact).<\/p>\nOne of the subjects that Weintraub addresses, the notion of original sin\u00a0in relation to life elsewhere, is one that C. S. Lewis famously addressed in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00GR0CK1Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00GR0CK1Y&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=JTAFCV23U2XJYYGY\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Space Trilogy<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00GR0CK1Y\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">, which I am currently reading.<\/p>\nReligions have always adapted to new data. And so the question is less \u201cCan religions adapt?\u201d But \u201cHow will they adapt?\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3319050559\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=3319050559&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=AKVLYH5KWSLXKCBR\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=3319050559&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3319050559\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00GR0CK1Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00GR0CK1Y&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=JTAFCV23U2XJYYGY\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00GR0CK1Y&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00GR0CK1Y\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hemant Mehta shared the above\u00a0video, which is based on a new book by \u00a0astronomer David Weintraub, Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? . 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