Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: The First Encounter (Science & the Paranormal)

Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: The First Encounter (Science & the Paranormal) by James L. Christian (Editor) ISBN-13: 9780879750633 ISBN-10: 0879750634 Publication Date: 1976, 2nd Printing Publisher: Prometheus Books Hardcover 6.2 x 9.2 inches, 303 pages Fifteen scientists and science-fiction writers explore the possibilities, implications, and probable consequences of our making contact with, and communicating with, intelligent life in other planetary systems. — Foreword: the Nefertiti-Tut express--a journey through time, thought, and being / Ray Bradbury -- — The story of life: earth's four-billion-year beginning / James Christian -- Of life beyond: man's age-old speculations / Isaac Asimov The search for life beyond earth: a scientific update / George Abell First contact: the news event and the human response / Kendrick Frazier Conversations with Mr. Spock / Leonard Nimoy The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence: a religious response / William Hamilton Mything the point: ETI's in a Hindu/Buddhist context / Ronald Huntington Would ETI's be persons? / Michael Tooley The abdication of human intelligence / Ronald Smith ETI's and the problem of intelligence / Peter Angeles Consciousness and the cosmos / Joseph Royce Angular truth and Planet X / Wilfrid Desan Life and death in the biocosmos / Richard Doss Homo telluris: the conscious cosmic caddis fly / Herman Tennessen