As space agencies launch new telescopes, rovers and probes to look for habitable planets and alien life beyond Earth, a British priest has been helping Nasa to understand how the discovery of extraterrestrials would change the way we see the universe.
The Rev Dr Andrew Davison, a priest and theologian at the University of Cambridge with a doctorate in biochemistry from Oxford, is among 24 theologians to have taken part in a Nasa-sponsored programme at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton in the US to assess how the world’s major religions would react to news that life exists on worlds beyond our own.
The Times has seen a copy of his book, Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine, due to be published next
