Earth must prepare for the close encounter with aliens, the scientists say UN should coordinate plans for dealing with extrater
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World governments should prepare a coordinated action plan in case Earth is contacted by aliens, according to scientists.
Scientists say that a branch of the United Nations must be given the responsibility of "super-Earth business and formulate a plan on how to deal with aliens, if they appear.
The comments are part of an extraterrestrial-themed edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published today. In it, scientists examine all aspects of the search for extraterrestrial life, from astronomy to biology, the religious and political fallout that would result from the alien contact.
"process will be adjusted on the basis of expertise to good and responsible scientists present at all, or is interested in power and opportunism more likely to set the scene?" asked Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University and Dr Martin Dominik, University of St Andrews in the introductory paper. "A lack of coordination can be avoided by establishing a general framework in a truly global effort governed by an international political legitimacy." The pair argue that the UN has a mechanism of ready-made for such a platform, in its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). 
Member States should put COPUOS Affairs super-Earth "in their agenda, scientists say, and create structures similar to those proposed to deal with threats from near-Earth objects such as asteroids, which could be on a collision course with our planet. According to Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University, the alien contact for anyone planning to prepare for the worst. Evolution on alien worlds, he said, is likely to be Darwinian in nature. Morris argues that life elsewhere in the universe so you probably are important similarities to life on Earth - especially if it comes from Earth-like worlds that have biological molecules similar to ours. This means that ET may be similar to us, for better or worse, with our tendencies toward violence and exploitation. "Why we must 'prepare for the worst'? First, if intelligent aliens exist, will be just like us, and as far away from our glorious history, this should give us pause for thought," Morris wrote in the special issue of magazine. 
Ted Peters, professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in California, considered what might happen to religions the world to do in case of ET contact. Conventional wisdom suggests that the Earth's religion would collapse if the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) were confirmed, he wrote.
"Because of our religious traditions formulated their key beliefs in an outdated vision of the ancient world, it would be shocking new knowledge dislodge our pre-modern dogmas? Believers Earth-centric, so that contact with ET would de-center and marginalize our sense of self-importance? Our traditional religions we humans rank in the top of the hierarchy of life, so if we meet ETI, which are more intelligent than we lose our superior? If we are created in the image of God as the biblical traditions teach, we share this divine image with our new neighbors? " Ted Peters, professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in California, considered what might happen to religions the world to do in case of ET contact. Conventional wisdom suggests that the Earth's religion would collapse if the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) were confirmed, he wrote. His conclusion, however, is that faith in the great religions of the Earth would have survived intact." Theologians do not find themselves without work. In fact, theologians can enjoy the new challenges to reformulate classical religious commitments in the light of new and broader vision of God's creation. "
" traditional theologians have therefore become astrotheologians ... What is this prediction: the contact with extraterrestrial intelligence will expand the existing religious vision that all of creation - including the history of the universe 13.7bn year full of all creatures of God - is the gift of a loving and merciful God, "he speculated.
" traditional theologians have therefore become astrotheologians ... What is this prediction: the contact with extraterrestrial intelligence will expand the existing religious vision that all of creation - including the history of the universe 13.7bn year full of all creatures of God - is the gift of a loving and merciful God, "he speculated.
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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