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#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a New Form of Religion?

Dawkins: Religions are a powerful tool for us to explore ideas. I think that Christianity probably helped us become better people to each other as we moved into a more global society. And I also this, it goes along with my book, which is basically making the argument that belief in nonhuman intelligence or ETs or UFOs, UAPs, whatever you want to call them, is a new form of religion.

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