Hi, I'm Rowan Williams, author of The Lions World and you're listening to Pints with Jack.

If there's life on other planets then I'm sure that he must know,

then he's been there once already and has died to save their souls.

This is Pints with Jack, season six, episode 49.

Astrophysics and Cosmic Salvation.

After Hours with Jimmy Aiken.

Welcome everyone. Here on Pines with Jack we are reading our way through the works of

CS Lewis. And this season we've read through the first of Lewis's science fiction

trilogy out of the silent planet and in this work as we've discussed,

those imagines life on Mars and he asks what would a species untouched by sin or at least

relatively untouched by sin what would that look like?

How would they relate to God?

And most importantly, would Jesus need to go to that planet as well?

And the opening quotation for this episode was a lyric from the song UFO by Larry Norman,

and he offers one possible answer.

But in today's show we're going to be digging into these in greater depth,

looking at these theological questions regarding alien life and we're doing that

with the perfect guest for this subject matter. Apologist and science fiction nerd Jimmy Aiken.

Jimmy Aiken is a senior apologist at Catholic Answers and the author of many books such as

The Father's Know Best and the Drama of Salvation. He's a weekly guest on the radio show

Catholic Answers Live and he's the host of podcasts too numerous

to mention but I'll mention a few a daily defense the secrets of Star Wars the

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