ETI Belief as Modern Sacred Longing: Meaning, Faith, and the God Question

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Belief in aliens can be a religious impulse and a modern substitute for faith, as Star Trek V suggests, with Newton, Dick, Davies, and Basalla arguing a mechanical cosmos still allows higher powers, while Routledge and colleagues show ETI beliefs relate to meaning-seeking rather than well-being or supernatural belief, implying ETI plays a faith-like existential role without doctrine and that transcendence may reside in the human heart.