How would finding extraterrestrial intelligence affect your religious beliefs? What might it tell us about ourselves? What would the theological implications be? Correspondent Lucky Severson talks with astrobiology experts and theologians, who say for some people \u201cdealing with intelligence out there would take us away from being the center of the universe. For some people that\u2019s very threatening, because somehow we won\u2019t be as special as we have been\u2026. The most important reason to search for extraterrestrials isn\u2019t even to find them, but to understand ourselves better. We have assumptions about what it means to be human, what it means to be intelligent, what it means to be civilized. If we have the opportunity to meet someone indirectly through radio signals from another world, that will give us a radically new way of looking at ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
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