By Alexander Wilson-
NASA has hired theologians and a British priest in a bid to understand how the discovery of extraterrestrials would change the way we see the universe, but there are questions as to why they have made this announcement at the end of the year.
Rev Dr Andrew Davidson, a priest and theologian at the University of Cambridge, is among 24 theologians to have taken part in a NASA-sponsored programme at the Center for Technological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton in the US, which has as its objective, assessing how the world’s major religions would react to the news that life exists in worlds beyond our own.
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The idea of other life in existence outside this realm is already established among well informed professionals and members of the public, given the multiple citing of strange Ufos, but NASA is believed to know something we don’t , perhaps a revelation of historic proportions about to be unleased in the years ahead.
It has been a long held view that NASA may hold profound information too much for many ordinary people to come to terms with for generations after generations because of their potential implications it may have for humanity.
Footage of unexplained moving objects with phenomenal speed has been one of the baffling revelations of the past many decades, but there has also been talk of alien human beings and alien creatures occupying our realm. Are some of these locked up in places like Area 51, and is NASA about to let the lions out of the cage? Sound quite bizarre, but the idea of aliens is itself bizzare.
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Why is NASA hiring theologians to understand in advance how humans will come to terms with extra terrestrials?
Area 51 for example, is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range. Details of the facility’s operations are highly classified, but the USAF says that it is an open training range, and it is commonly thought to support the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.
Plenty of secrecy surrounds the base, and it has long been the subject of conspiracy theories and a central component of unidentified flying object (UFO) folklore.
A number of extremely passionate researchers keen on the topic of extra terrestrials, believe NASA is planning to release abundant evidence of Ufos, far beyond what has ever been released in the past , but want to know in advance how they will be interpreted if they become a part of everyday reality.
Some ufologists say the reality of aliens make nonsense of religion, whilst other religious theologians say it will only support religious phenomenon of beings in other planets, supposedly contained in biblical texts.
In a blog post, Rev Dr Andrew Davison said that religious traditions would be an important feature in how humanity would work through any such confirmations of life elsewhere. “Because of that, it features as part of NASA’s ongoing aim to support work on ‘the societal implications of astrobiology,’ working with various partner organizations, including the Centre of Theological Inquiry at Princeton,” Davison added. The British priest revealed that he is now set to publish a book next year, titled ‘Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine’, which notes that the world is getting closer to finding life on other planets.
Carl Pilcher, head of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute until 2016, said that the programme is considering the implications of applying the tools of the late 20th and early 21st-century science to questions that have been considered in religious traditions for hundreds of years. Pilcher added that the possibility of discovering alien life is very high, as there are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
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