Oct 13, 2015
Does life exist on other planets? If we discover an alien civilization, does that mean God won’t love us or hang out anymore? Is Allen’s alien superpower the lamest thing ever or the greatest? Our co-hosts answer these questions and more in this week’s episode on God and aliens.
Conversation on Faith and Aliens
(00:25)
Alien Superpower Segment
(47:46)
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid
Water Flows on Today’s Mars (article)
Ancient Cosmology
(image)
Lion King Astronomy Clip
(youtube video)
How many stars can you see on a clear, moonless night? (article)
The Milky Way's 100 Billion Planets (NASA article)
Exoplanet History - From Intuition to Discovery (article)
How Many Galaxies Are there? (article)
The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2) (youtube video)
Kardashev Scale (wikipedia article)
The Deep Future: Crash Course Big History #10 (youtube video about potential human colonization of the galaxy)
A New Physics Theory of Life (article on “life arises when you shine light at matter for long enough”)
Life Might Spread Across Universe Like an 'Epidemic' in New Math Theory (“panspermia article)
C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (book series)
What C.S. Lewis thought about space exploration and aliens (article)
Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet (book)
Creationist Ken Ham Says Aliens Will Go To Hell So Let's Stop Looking For Them (article)
Pope Francis says he would baptise aliens: 'Who are we to close doors?' (article)
Poisonwood Bible (book)
Water On Mars! (Political cartoon of Nestle drilling for water)
Process Theology (wikipedia article)
Open Theism (wikipedia article)
The War on Science (youtube video - “the bank bailout cost more than NASA’s entire 50 year running budget”)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (book)
The Martian (book)
How a book about fish nearly sank Isaac Newton's Principia (article)
Tardigrades (wikipedia article)
And God Blessed The World With The Babel Incident (article - an irenicon)
Why Christians should get on board with space exploration (article)
Health Benefits Of Bananas And Their Peels: 10 Unusual Ways To Use The Entire Fruit (article)
Doctor Who (TV show)
Firefly (TV Show)
Use Your imagination - Hook (youtube video)
For this episode (032): “The History of Fishes” was published in the 17th century (1686), Allen misspoke -- apologies.
Thank you to Mike Golin for our intro and outro music. Check out his band Soulwise.
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