Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination: Seti at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Culture

by John Traphagan

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 motivates many interested in religion: What is the place of humanity in the universe? Both scientists involved with SETI (and in other areas) and those interested...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319105507
• ISBN13: 9783319105505
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"