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The Rev Dr Andrew Davison, a British priest and theologist, said the prospect for finding life on another planet is becoming ever more real. The reverend, who is a theologian at Cambridge University and has a degree in Biochemistry, is one of 24 theologians who took part in a NASA-sponsored programme at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton in the US, according to a report in The Times.
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Davidson, in a blog post shared тАШReligious traditions would be an important feature in how humanity would work through any such confirmation 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 Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton.’
Dr Davison has further said that theologians pondered the question of whether GodтАЩs powers could have extended to creating life beyond Earth since at least the Middle Ages and are not too troubled by the idea.
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