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1.9 Drake’s equation and Mormon cosmology
Let’s talk about aliens! Our hosts discuss the Fermi paradox, Drake’s equation and SETI, and then cover how Mormon doctrines about many worlds relate to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Wiki links!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cosmology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Follett_discourse
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? Parts 1 and 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI
60 minutes interview with President Hinckley. Note this video doesn’t have the quote we mentioned which was actually from a Time article. We include here a FairMormon article discussing how President Hinckley was actually taken a bit out of context in that article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0PxT5Vm4g
https://www.fairmormon.org/archive/publications/does_president_hinckley_understand_lds_doctrine
Literature!
Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-James-S-Corey/dp/0316129089
"Avek, Who Is Distributed" (story about baptizing an AI)
online:
https://lit.mormonartist.net/2016/02/avek-who-is-distributed/
Original discussion page:
https://motleyvision.org/2012/10/26/discuss-avek-who-is-distributed-by-steven-peck/
Collected here: https://amzn.to/2JbcZx8
Monsters & Mormons: https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Mormons-Wm-Henry-Morris/dp/0982781245
"Let the Mountains Tremble for Adoniha Has Fallen" by Steven L. Peck (medieval Mormons on Mars)
"Bokev Momen" by D. Michael Martindale (aliens rescue adducted missionary)
"That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (aliens that live in the Sun)
not included in discussion: "First Estate" by Katherine Woodbury: Mormon Ruth and her alien Boaz
Johnson, Hollis R. (1992), "Worlds", in Ludlow, Daniel H (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 1595–96, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4358
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Let’s talk about aliens! Our hosts discuss the Fermi paradox, Drake’s equation and SETI, and then cover how Mormon doctrines about many worlds relate to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Wiki links!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cosmology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Follett_discourse
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? Parts 1 and 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI
60 minutes interview with President Hinckley. Note this video doesn’t have the quote we mentioned which was actually from a Time article. We include here a FairMormon article discussing how President Hinckley was actually taken a bit out of context in that article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0PxT5Vm4g
https://www.fairmormon.org/archive/publications/does_president_hinckley_understand_lds_doctrine
Literature!
Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-James-S-Corey/dp/0316129089
"Avek, Who Is Distributed" (story about baptizing an AI)
online:
https://lit.mormonartist.net/2016/02/avek-who-is-distributed/
Original discussion page:
https://motleyvision.org/2012/10/26/discuss-avek-who-is-distributed-by-steven-peck/
Collected here: https://amzn.to/2JbcZx8
Monsters & Mormons: https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Mormons-Wm-Henry-Morris/dp/0982781245
"Let the Mountains Tremble for Adoniha Has Fallen" by Steven L. Peck (medieval Mormons on Mars)
"Bokev Momen" by D. Michael Martindale (aliens rescue adducted missionary)
"That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (aliens that live in the Sun)
not included in discussion: "First Estate" by Katherine Woodbury: Mormon Ruth and her alien Boaz
Johnson, Hollis R. (1992), "Worlds", in Ludlow, Daniel H (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 1595–96, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4358