It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, but NASA is actually recruiting a priest to help prepare for humanity’s contact with extraterrestrials.

As efforts to find alien life are bearing fruit, NASA has hired a priest and other Religious experts to help Earth’s inhabitants prepare for the possibility of human life. alien action.

It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, but NASA is actually recruiting a priest to help prepare for humanity’s contact with extraterrestrials.

These psychics are not allowed to board spaceships to fly into space to fight the aliens. But the help of 24 theologians is part of a plan to find out how the world’s different religions will react to news of extraterrestrial life.

Among those 24 theologians is the British pastor Andrew Davison, a theologian from the University of Cambridge who also holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Oxford.

As we all know, “the theologian is someone who studies the nature of God, religion and religious beliefs”.

But why is NASA hiring religious experts now?

That’s because human progress in the search for life is promising. A series of new missions are expected to advance our understanding of space, including the James Webb Telescope event, which was filmed on Christmas Eve. In addition, the European Space Agency’s Rosiland Franklin rover, built at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, will bury its wings in 2022.

Rosiland Franklin will drill deep into the Martian surface in search of fossilized bacteria in an effort to detect traces of life.

Meanwhile, scientists in Cardiff, Wales have shown that ammonia is found in the atmosphere of Venus and is likely produced by organisms living on it.

The NASA-sponsored program, held at the Center for Theological Investigation at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, aims to address questions about how alien life might affect thinking about gods and goddesses. creative.

Rev Davison, PhD, believes that the prospect of finding a life outside this world is becoming more and more likely.

In his book, Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine, he questions whether God could have created life elsewhere in the universe.

The head of NASA’s Institute of Astrobiology until 2016, Carl Pilcher said theologians were invited to: “Consider the impact of applying science in the 20th and early 21st centuries. religious traditions over the past hundreds or even thousands of years”.

Discussing how the earth must be the purest act in habitable space, he said: “It is impossible to be certain that there are more than 100 billion stars in this galaxy and over 100 billion in this galaxy. in the universe”.

It is important, he believes, that no matter when extraterrestrial life is found, its impact is already considered.