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Fr. Dwight Longenecker is the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina. His latest book The Way of the Wilderness Warrior uses the classical hero’s quest to give a plan for spiritual growth.
Anybody who has seen E.T. or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the film Signs, or any number of alien sci-fi movies will have wondered about alien encounters and the possible existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. And certainly last week’s speculation over those mysterious objects the U.S. military shot down raised the topic into the headlines. When the top NORAD general wouldn’t rule out aliens, who’s to blame the public for speculating?
One of the main difficulties in discussions of this subject is the pervasiveness of materialistic ways of thinking. The SETI project, for example, is the decades old Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. The SETI project uses radio technology, internet computer, and space exploration technology to search the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrials who have advanced civilizations and technologies which would use electronic communications of some sort. …
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