, indicates that this is a quiet topic, not generally discussed. Yes, it would be.

“What Genesis says about creation is true. God did it; God willed it; and God loves it” says Brother Consolmagno. “When science fills in the details of how God did it, it helps us get a flavour of how rich and beautiful and inventive God really is - it might even include other planets with other beings created by the same loving God.” Not implacable, erratic Nature.

Curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, David Grinspoon, an avid supporter of the search for alien life, feels that if we do ever reach contact with other intelligent beings in the Milky Way our conversation will revolve around faith and the soul, belief in God. That the alien society will have evolved, like us, a state of science and technology enabling them to travel a “parallel spiritual path”.

All this in the spirit of scientific search for the meaning of life, the answer to evolutionary biology and the spirit within us. “Technical advancement without spiritual progress creates a dangerous and unstable condition that will be selected against. Natural selection will favour those worlds where technical and spiritual advancement proceed together.” Charles Darwin, are you listening?!

Meanwhile, we send out probes; we carefully, meticulously attune ourselves to the potential, cock an ear and an eye toward the universe, invest in great revolving telescopes to pick up any electronic sound that might possibly suggest existence elsewhere. And we load up Information Earth recordings to reflect the diversity of life upon this planet should some other intelligence encounter those probes.

We send messages of earthly delight; the love of a mother for a child, elegant classical music, the sound of animals and birds, drawings of a man, a woman, a child. Nowhere do we illustrate the manner in which we treat of one another, our ill tempers, our grudging and suspicious inability to live in peace with one another. We send gentle lies out into space.

We take steps to ensure that the revelation that humankind is not at all intelligent is not made known to the possibility of other life forms that might themselves exhibit a deep level of intelligence. Or otherwise.

Beginning January 4th and 5th artist will be hitting the streets with their bike and a cart filled with art and innovative goods. The project is organized through Mobile Museum who’s goal is too “generate new insights, possibilities, and appreciation for individual interpretation of information via visual forms.” The most interesting part of this project is that it has not boundaries of location, this gives artist a great opportunity to share their work all throughout Pittsburgh. Keep a look out on January, 4th, 5th and 11th for a mobile museum cart near you!

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC