Abstract
With the recent discovery of 51 Pegasus, a planet orbiting a distant star similar to our sun, the subject of extraterrestrial life no longer seems the reserve of Steven Spielberg and The X-Files. Paul Davies, professor of natural philosophy at the University of Adelaide in Australia and recipient of the 1995 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, discusses the implications of alien communication for religion and philosophy in Are We Alone? The erstwhile mathematical physicist spent his early career working with famed scientist Stephen Hawking (author of A Brief History of Time), and has written over twenty books on modern physics and cosmology since the 1970s.