NASA Enlists Priests To Assess How The World Would React To Alien Life

(Alicia Powe) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is recruiting priests and theologians to assess how the world’s major religions would react to the news of discovering extraterrestrial life and advise the agency on how to quell civil unrest upon the revelation.

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by Alicia Powe, December 24th, 2021

The agency has enlisted 24 religious experts to develop protocols for the discovery of alien life in its Center for Theological Inquiry program at Princeton University in New Jersey.

NASA provided CTI with a $1.1 million grant to create the program devoted to researching “the societal implications of astrobiology” in 2015.

According to its website, CTI “builds bridges of understanding by convening theologians, scientists, scholars and policymakers to think together — and inform public thinking — on global concerns.

The Times, a British publication, called attention to the NASA program on Wednesday in a report featuring interviews with NASA experts.

The agency is invested in “serious scholarship being published in books and journals” addressing the “profound wonder and mystery and implication of finding microbial life on another planet,” Will Storrar, the director of CTI, told the publication.

Rev. Dr. Andrew Davison, a priest and theologian at the University of Cambridge with a doctorate in biochemistry from Oxford, is among the two dozen religious experts recruited for the “alien preparation” effort.

In a recent blog post shared on the University of Cambridge website, Davis summarizes his work to date with NASA.

“I am researching and writing a survey of the main topics in Christian belief – what is sometimes called ‘systematic theology’ – from the perspective of life elsewhere in the universe. I am thinking about its bearing on the doctrines of creation, sin, the person and work of Jesus, redemption, revelation, eschatology, and so on,” the priest wrote.

“So far, my attention has mainly been focussed on what theologians call Christology: the discussion of who Jesus was, and in particular of what it would mean to hold that he is both human and divine. The most significant question there is probably whether one would respond theologically to the prospect of life elsewhere in terms of there having been many incarnations, or only the one theologians talk about in Jesus. I have also been thinking about the doctrine of creation, especially in terms of how it deals with themes of multiplicity and diversity.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation demanded NASA revoke its funding to CTI, arguing the grant provided by the government to religious research violates the separation of church and state.

In 2017, FFRF obtained 550 documents from NASA in a Freedom of Information Act request. According to documents provided obtained by FFRF, research proposed by NASA for the grant includes:

• • Formulating a “Christian response” to scientific studies on morality,
  • Developing a new model of biblical interpretation.
  • Relating themes from First Corinthians, a book in the Christian bible, to astrobiology.
  • Reconciling a potential astrobiology discovery with Christian theology.
  • Looking at how astrobiology would affect the Christian doctrine of redemption.
  • Examining Christian ethics and Christian doctrines of human obligation.
  • Looking at societal implications of astrobiology with “theological ethics.”
  • Writing a monograph on Christian forgiveness.

On Christmas day, NASA and its international partners will launch to orbit the James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion telescope that has taken 30 years to design and build.

The telescope “has been described as a ‘time machine’ that could help unravel the secrets of our universe, with distant objects emitting light from further back in time,” Daily Mail reports. “The telescope will be used to look back to the first galaxies born in the early universe more than 13.5 billion years ago.

“The goal of this powerful device is to unravel the mysteries of supermassive black holes, distant alien worlds, stellar explosions, dark matter, and more.”

About The Author

Alicia Powe

Alicia is an investigative journalist and multimedia reporter. Alicia has contributed to numerous outlets, including the Gateway Pundit, Project Veritas, World Net Daily, Townhall.com and Media Research Center, where she exposes public corruption, fraud and abuse in government, media and Big Tech. She has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She served in the Correspondence Department of the George W. Bush administration. She also served as a War Room analyst for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee. Alicia is originally from New York City and currently resides in Washington D.C.

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