Keep Religion Out of National Space Policy

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Feb 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006eostr..87r..63c&link_type=abstract

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 87, Issue 6, p. 63-63

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Public Issues: Science Policy (0485), Public Issues: General Or Miscellaneous

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In an Eos forum last spring, Robert Frodeman (University of Texas, Denton) suggested that ``it is time that we draw more consciously upon the expertise of scholars trained in the areas of art, philosophy, and religion in the design of our space policy'' [2005]. I would agree that artists and philosophers may help the public to appreciate the true grandeur of the universe and thus increase popular support for the exploration of space, but I cannot think of a potentially more disastrous step than to bring ``scholars trained in. . .religion'' into the development of our national space policy, as Frodeman advocates. My concerns have nothing to do with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution-I simply think that the potential negatives far outweigh the potential benefits.

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