Berkely Study: Religious Do Not Fear Alien Contact

California Catholic Daily:

Ted Peters, a professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Seminary and at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, conducted the study. The findings were announced in an Aug. 15 press release by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

“Will confirmation of the existence of an extraterrestrial intelligent civilization so rock the adherents to earth's religious traditions that their belief systems will confront a crisis if not collapse altogether?” the release asks. “Are religious people so narrow minded -- so earth-centric and anthropocentric -- that they would be shocked to realize we share our universe with other beings who are our equals if not superiors? No, say researchers in Berkeley, California. Religious believers show surprising openness at inviting extraterrestrial aliens into their terrestrial neighborhood.”

See The Peters ETI Religious Crisis Survey

Genesis 6 1When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." 4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

Jude 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day

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