The idea that humanity's future and hope is in finding inhabitable worlds many light years away can seem problematic to a Christian whose future and hope is found in God. Is it?
The eschatological overtones found in many of these pronouncements can account for most of the unease. As Christians, we know our home is not this world, but we're not sure it is TRAPPIST-1e, either. Meanwhile, movies such as Interstellar promote the view that our dying world is a given—either through environmental disaster, nuclear war, or zombie apocalypse—and that in order to survive, we'll need to put all our energy towards escaping to a better place.
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