George Coyne, at the time Director of the Vatican Observatory, posed similar reservations about a definitive answer. He concluded that with the discovery of ETI “theologians must accept a serious responsibility to rethink some fundamental r…35. Rev. Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science
and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World (New York: Viking,
2008), and “Evolutionary Christianity,” DVD, described as “seeing the
entire history of the U…
Jill Tarter
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Tarter appears here primarily as a point of reference for institutional legitimacy in SETI research rather than as a direct theorist for the course—her leadership of the SETI Institute anchors the scientific credibility of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that theological and evolutionary frameworks must now reckon with. The readings invoke her institutional authority to establish that contact with ETI is a serious scientific possibility that demands religious and philosophical response, making SETI itself a crucial context for thinking about how emergent complexity and cosmic scale reshape human meaning-making.
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Jill Cornell Tarter is an American astronomer who works on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter is the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. In 2002, Discover magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science.
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