IMPLICATIONS OF LIFE BEYOND EARTH

I attended a very fascinating lecture on Astronomy and how it relates to human evolution. Biggest lesson I learned from it: most animals are actually a lot smarter than humans. Look up this website:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/NewsEvents/crow.cfm
A study was conducted where both Crow and Human were to extract food from a narrow space with a twig: guess who figured out how to do it first? Yes, Crows are Brainiacs.

A University Distinguished Professor in the department of astronomy, in 2002 Impey was named the National Science Foundation Distinguished Teaching Scholar as well as the Arizona Teacher of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. In 2005 he was selected as a Galileo Circle Scholar, the College of Science’s highest honor. Impey created the Astronomica.org Web site, which provides students with interactive tools and instructional technology, and has been instrumental in curriculum development in astrobiology.
Astrobiology is the scientific study of biological processes on the Earth and beyond. It connects research in physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and planetary science. After centuries of speculation, we will soon have the capability of detecting ancient life or pre-biotic chemistry in the solar system, microbial life on extra-solar planets by its alteration of global atmospheric chemistry, and technological civilizations throughout the galaxy. Success in any of these areas would profoundly affect social discourse at all levels, reawakening religious questions in a new context. This series pursues these implications by bringing together voices from the relevant areas to form a new kind of interdisciplinary networking community that will encourage dialogue, research, and publication from the participants. Astrobiology has a firm scientific footing and it makes an excellent platform for gathering scientists, humanists, philosophers and theologians in an exploration of the role of humans in the universe.