NASA is enlisting the help of 24 theologians for a serious cause. NASA will determine how different religions around the world would react to contact with aliens, reported Technotrendz.
NASA on the right track?
The theologians will be working at the agency’s Centre for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University in the US. NASA believes it is on the right track to finding signs of alien life sooner than previously anticipated. NASA thinks it will need help from theologians. They study the nature of the divine and, more broadly, religious beliefs. This will make sure the discovery is received well.
Origin of universe
One of the theologians enlisted by NASA is a British priest. Rev Dr. Andrew Davison He wrote in a blogpost that “religious traditions” would be an important feature in how humanity would work through any confirmation of life elsewhere.
His assessment appears to take into account the large number of people who are opposed to the idea of life beyond Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which launched, is expected to help scientists understand more about the origins of the Universe. It will also help in understanding and Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.
