Officials
Preparing For Contact Disclosure?
Muslim and Jewish leaders joined Funes to say
their religion could accommodate an ET
reality, while a scholar for the Russian
Orthodoxy excluded the possibility of
extraterrestrial intelligence. The question of
how the world's political and religious
communities would respond if suddenly faced
with visitors from beyond is something world
religions and even the US Government has
studied. Paul Davies of The Atlantic Monthly
wrote in 2003 that the discovery of even a
single bacterium somewhere beyond Earth could
force mankind to revise its understanding of
who we are and where we fit into the cosmic
scheme of things. Davies speculated that such
a find could throw the human race into a
spiritual identity crisis that could leave
some gasping for faith in God. Evidently
things have changed since 2003. Recent polls
show a majority of people believe ET
disclosure would not challenge their faith in
God, findings supported by a study at the
University of California, Berkeley in 2008. A
Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22
countries taken in April, 2010 found similar
responses, adding that more than 40 percent of
people from India
and China
believe aliens are already here and are
walking among us disguised as humans.