Search for Extraterrestrial Life
English book, p. 275
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
GOD: VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE is there one or more civilizations elsewhere in space, perhaps established by some non-human entities? Some people speculate that there could be other ‘technical civilizations’ elsewhere in the universe similar to the human civilization on Earth, established by ‘aliens.’ One reason for this speculation is that some people have claimed to have found indications of extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe. If these are indeed what these people think they are, it ought to have strengthened faith in God, but the mindset of those who deny God is such that it is ready to believe in the existence of some hypothetical extraterrestrial intelligence of unseen ‘aliens’ but hesitates at accepting the existence of God. Some astronomers have claimed that in our galaxy, there are 10 billion stars that, like the solar system, have a planetary system. In their opinion, the existence of life is as possible there as is on Earth, although, so far, not one planet has been discovered where life forms as on Earth are present. Searches for radio signals or optical flashes from other star systems that might indicate the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence have so far proved fruitless. The following is an excerpt from an article on ‘extraterrestrial intelligence’ in Encyclopedia Britannica. “Hypothetical extraterrestrial life capable of thinking, purposeful activity... more than 3,000 extrasolar planets have been detected... These efforts suggest that there could be many worlds in which life, and occasionally intelligent life, might arise. Searches for radio signals or optical flashes from other star systems

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