Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination SETI at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Culture /

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) represents one of the most significant crossroads at which the assumptions and methods of scientific inquiry come into direct contact with—and in many cases conflict with—those of religion. Indeed, at the core of SETI is the same question that moti...

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Main Author: Traphagan, John. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Space and Society,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10551-2
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505 0 |a Thinking about Science and Religion -- History of Thinking about ETI: Cosmology, Life Beyond Earth -- Are We Alone? -- What Would ETI Look Like? -- Interstellar Message Construction -- The Production of Knowledge in Encounters with Alien Others -- Culture, Religion and SETI. 
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