Aliens and Belief: Five Films Exploring Science, Faith, and the Meaning of Home
To the point
Five films—2001: A Space Odyssey, Contact, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Project Hail Mary, and Signs—show how alien encounters force science and faith to wrestle with each other, with HAL 9000, Ellie Arroway, Palmer Joss, and Graham Hess illustrating the tension between evidence and belief, and Paul Asay noting that none fully reflect Christian thought but all spark meaningful discussion about living as outsiders in a world not yet home.