title: Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
author:  David Wilkinson 
description: <br />"A brilliant analysis of the possibility that there may be other intelligent beings not easily recognised by us, for which one day evidence may be found through SETI. David Wilkinson has read widely and thought deeply about what the implications would be for belief in God. This is the science-religion dialogue as it should be." - Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford
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  **Science, Religion, and the Search for**
  
  
  **Extraterrestrial Intelligence**
  
  
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