“‘[Y]es’, [the discovery of extraterrestrial life would pose a particular threat to Christianity],…because Christians alone have a religion in which they claim that God became a human being…in order to save humankind….What happens to…extraterrestrials?…We might be dealing with literally saintly beings. Are they not to be saved too?,” asks Paul Davies, author of The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence.