Aliens and Religion: A Unique Combination

Hey, y'all! 

I know this doesn't quite relate with our 2015 challenge, but I thought I'd share an interesting book I'm reading for class with y'all. It's called Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? The cover has a picture of an obnoxious green martian(?) touching a human hand, so I think I looked like a nutter reading it at the airport, but that's beside the point. 

Even though it's a bit of an odd book and totally beyond the realm of books I usually pursue reading, it's quite interesting! The first 74 pages deal with strict science: what types of planets exist, where they are, how we know this, what scientists currently hypothesize about extra solar planets. After that, though, the rest of the book's 209 pages deal with various religions, from Anglicanism  to the Bahá'í Faith (which I had never actually learned about before), Judaism to Mormonism, David Weintraub, the book's author and my ASTR 102 professor, delves into the religious implications of extraterrestrial life and what theologians currently predict in regards to their existence. Do you think aliens exist? Let me know!