Ufology, god-talk and theology: an excerpt from The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs, by Brenda Denzler, University of California Press, 2001. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-520-22432-9.(Excerpt) From: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Denzler, Brenda | COPYRIGHT 2002 Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE IDEA THAT UFOS AND OCCUPANT encounters were demonic, not just in their behavior but in very Fact, surfaced early in the UFO community. some UFO students with Christian convictions proposed that the aerial anomalies that had been under study since 1947 were in fact the end-time "signs and wonders in the sky" spoken of in the Bible. There were a number of books and treatises published dealing with the connections between UFO phenomena and the Bible. Many of these were more readil...

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