How earthbound are values and ethics? Is there anything of value in space -- in its whirls of flaming gas, raw energy, rotating and revolving chunks of brute matter? Can we expect to share some of our science and ethics with extra-terrestrials? Perhaps in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the questions to ask are not about the value of pi, or the atomic number of carbon, but about whether one should tell the truth, keep promises, or be just. The Golden Rule may be as universally true as is the theory of relativity.
Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. His publications include
Genes, Genesis and God;
Science and Religion: A Critical Survey;
Philosophy Gone Wild;
Environmental Ethics; and
Conserving Natural Value. Professor Rolston was awarded the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2003. Other awards include the Mendel Medal, bestowed on him by Villanova University in 2005.
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