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What would it mean to discover alien life (or them us)? In conversation with Andrew Davison

What would it mean to discover alien life (or them us)? In conversation with Andrew Davison

Nick Spencer speaks with Cambridge University Professor of Theology & Natural Sciences, Andrew Davison. 23/04/2024

Little green men were once a complete fantasy – but the numbers appear to be on their side. The sheer size of the universe, the number of stars and, it seems, the number of potentially inhabitable planets means that alien life is highly probable.

What would it mean for us if that were so? If we did ever ‘make contact’? What would it mean for our sense of pride, our dignity and in particular for those belief systems that have a particular emphasis on the human species?

In this week’s episode, Nick Spencer speaks to Andrew Davison about his book Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine.


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 23 April 2024

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