She wrote a sequel. If you liked The Sparrow it is certainly worth reading. I enjoyed them both immensely.
I’ve always wondered if aliens would ever try to convert Earth people to THEIR religion.
I’m sure we are far too intelligent to fall for that.
Well, as a devout Christian of the Episcopalian flavor finding out there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe wouldn’t shake my faith at all.
I don’t take all of Scripture literally but believe in the* points * it makes. So when, in Genesis 1:1 it says “In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth…” I take that to mean the following.
“Sure, he got the ball started on our planet, and has continued to act with us ever since. God also created the heavens, the rest of the universe, and most certainly can have created other worlds as well. How he has acted there we haven’t discovered yet.”
I don’t know if, in this life, I’ll learn whether or not there is other intelligent life, but I wouldn’t be surprised, in the life to come in Heaven, that I would meet other people that didn’t come from my own birth planet.
I very much would like to see the view point of a person of Muslim faith !
Yes.
Or for earlier Jesuit/alien religious fun, without the assraping, there’s Blish’s* A Case of Conscience*. I always prefer the ambiguous novella version to the full novel, but both are good.
Probably, but the baptism in boiling ammonia would mean that only the really hardcore would join.
BTW, he was at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (aka Penn), and is now at MIT. To help you keep them straight, Penn State is the state’s land grant university and has a long history as a football power, while Penn is in the Ivy League.
Dr. Tegmark has proposed an elaboration of the multiverse theory which would not only imply what you said above, but that there are a similar infinite number of universes where everyone on Earth worships Moloch and practices child sacrifice.
According to Erich Von Daniken, this has (maybe) already happened. See ‘Chariots of the Gods’.
Or better still, don’t waste a few hours of your life you’ll never get back. Don’t read ‘Chariots of the Gods’. To describe EvD’s theories as half-witted is a terribly unfair insult. To things that are half-witted.
Awesome post. Thanks!
See, my position is that alien life absolutely does exist, but God does not.