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earings in changing environments. Attitudes that are rooted in worldviews should not beconfused with off-hand opinions. Worldviews are part of an integrated and largely selfcorrectingsystem. People defend themselves against threats to their core beliefs and if thesebeliefs fall, we might expect cascading effects under worst-case scenarios leading to, for them, acollapse of reality. This is a matter for future research. In any event, rather than trying to forcepeople to accept astrobiological “facts,” we should find ways to help people accommodate newdiscoveries within their pre-existing worldviews, and help them repair old worldviews ordevelop new ones if necessary. And if, as astrosociologists we try to do so, we should be awareof our own preferences, biases, blind spots, and imagination, and do the best we can to take theseinto account.ReferencesBaird, J. C. (1987). The inner limits of outer space. Hanover, NH: University Press of NewEngland.Barbour, I. G. (2000). When science meets religion. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.Bekey, I. (2009). Dealing with the threat to earth from asteroids and comets. New Delhi:International Academy of Astronautics and Indian Space Agency.Benner, S. A. (2010). Defining life. Astrobiology, 10, 1021-1030.Bertka, C. M. (2013). Christianity’s response to the discovery of extraterrestrial life: Insightsfrom science and religion and the sociology of religion. In D. Vakoch (Ed.),Astrobiology, history, and society (pp 329-340). Berlin: Springer Verlag.Billingham J., Heyns R., Milne, D. Doyle, S., Klein M., Heilbron M., Ashkenazi, M., Michaud,M. A. G, Lutz, J. and Shostak, S. (1999). Societal implications of the detection of anextraterrestrial civilization. Mountain View, CA: SETI Institute Press.Billingham, J, (1998). Cultural aspects of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. ActaAstronautica, 42, 711-719.Blumberg, B. S. (2011). Astrobiology, space, and the future age of discovery. PhilosophicalTransactions of the British Royal Society A, 369, 508-515.Cantril, H. (1940). Invasion from Mars. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Chaisson, E. J. (2001). Cosmic evolution: The rise of complexity in nature. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.Committee on Science and Astronautics. (1961). Proposed studies on the implications ofpeaceful space activities for human affairs. U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session, 24 March.Conley, C. A., and Rummel, J. D. (2008). Planetary protection for humans in space: Mars andthe Moon. Acta Astronautica, 63, 1025-1030.© 2015 Astrosociology Research Institute26
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