…with the James Web Telescope looking for sources of artificial light to identify potential intelligent life, and the news this week of Perseverance searching for microbial life on Mars it feels like we are getting closer to a major discovery. But what - if anything - would it mean for the religions on Earth if life is proven to exist out there?
I think that if we had inexorable proof of alien life there would absolutely be a shift in the public. I’d love to think we’d grow closer as humanity.