The news prompted excited questions among scientists: Is there really water on Proxima b? Could a rocket make it there one day? Could there be life on the planet? But it started a very different discussion among Christians: Would alien souls need saving? And if so, do missionaries have a responsibility to rocket into space with a trunk full of Bibles?
“At a minimum, a Christian would have an obligation to at least tell the Gospel story to other life-forms found outside of Earth,” said Bill Nettles, the chair of the physics department at Union University, an evangelical college in Jackson, Tenn.
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