{"id":8421,"date":"2010-05-07T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.com\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2010-05-07T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:30:41","slug":"are-we-alone-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/are-we-alone-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we alone in the universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36769422\/\" target=\"_blank\">convinced that aliens exist<\/a>; if the universe is free-running and has produced intelligent life in one place seemingly by accident, why could it not produce it somewhere else, too? As a Christian I don&#8217;t find this particularly convincing; on the other hand, I have little difficulty in believing that God made man in his image, that life is not accidental and that God, being extravagant, created a very large universe just for us.<\/p>\n<p>Here &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premierradio.org.uk\/listen\/ondemand.aspx?mediaid={CD6D82AC-9A89-41D7-8D9E-F6712260177F}\" target=\"_blank\">Premier Christian Radio<\/a> &#8211; is an illuminating conversation between astrophysicist Paul Davies and Christian mathematician and philosopher, John Lennox which sheds light on life, the universe and everything. And the likelihood &#8211; or unlikelihood &#8211; of ET.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"27\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/ui\/3523697345-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http:\/\/media.premier.org.uk\/unbelievable\/f4ca1408-1cd8-4aea-ab73-231910f8a76c.mp3\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"27\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/ui\/3523697345-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http:\/\/media.premier.org.uk\/unbelievable\/f4ca1408-1cd8-4aea-ab73-231910f8a76c.mp3\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking is convinced that aliens exist; if the universe is free-running and has produced intelligent life in one place seemingly by accident, why could it not produce it somewhere else, too? As a Christian I don&#8217;t find this particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/are-we-alone-in-the-universe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[2080,2094,2183],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","tag-christianity","tag-cosmology","tag-john-lennox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}