The Sparrow: A History of Science Fiction

There are all kinds of very sophisticated technological devices looking for those things. I've never quite understood the reasoning behind it, but there's always this question that if we did somehow it would throw the whole of theology and the notion of God out the window. So I just wondered how you think about that. Well, I'll give you an example. When I finished the Sparrow in 1995 and it was, it had been finally picked up for publication and Random House was working on it - they had found a meteorite that had bounced off of Mars. And to my delight, within 12 hours on BBC, I was hearing somebody say, well, what does this imply for Genesis? Right, okay