Kevin Kelly is a friend and an author of one of my all-time favorite books, Out of Control. (You can download it for free here.) I was poking around his site, kk.org, and came across this great paper he wrote for Technology in Society called “Nerd Theology.” He claims that the most earth shattering event — in terms of potential for religious upheaval — would be contact with alien intelligence. Then he goes on to explain that scientists are creating alien intelligence right here on Earth, so it doesn’t matter whether we are ever visited by ET or not. Then he looks at the way scientists consider themselves as gods, and rightly so. Unfortunately, the paper is a scanned and put into a PDF file, so you’ll have to print it out if you want to read it. But it’s worth it. Link Discuss