Houston, Naturalists Have a Problem: ETI and Evidence for Theism

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In Tyler Dalton McNabb & Chad McIntosh (eds.), Space, Philosophy, and Ethics (forthcoming)
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In our 2021 paper, “Houston: Do we have a problem?”, we argued that contra popular belief, there is no conflict between existence of ETI and theism in general and Christian theism in particular. In this paper we argue further that the existence of ETI, especially ETI who are sophisticated enough to travel space, is evidence for theism. That is, ETI confirms the hypothesis that God exists over its naturalist competitor.

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C. A. McIntosh
Cornell University (PhD)
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