What Is Life? From Aristotle to Aliens and the Humility of Theological Epistemology
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Life beyond Earth could exist and be so unlike us that it challenges an Earth-centered view, drawing on Aristotle’s life criterion, Darwinian variation, and the ideas of Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, while acknowledging it may be unknowable or a projection of consciousness, and calling for humility before God’s mystery as taught by St. Maximus the Confessor.
