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Jacques Arnould thanks Stephen Hawking for his warning, but then quickly moves on to contend: the present moment provides an opportunity forHomo sapienson Earth to rediscover the virtue of discretion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Jewish celebration of Passover, the youngest of the assembly has to request: "When these events did take place? " The oldest one answers: "It was tomorrow." A manner of affirming the singularity of the human being which, to survive and grow, must unceasingly cross new passages, without disavowing its past. But is a future still possible, when reality was desacralisee, when the threats are increasingly precise, when also we think of being able to create a new humanity? We should not hesitate to pose the thresholds of sacred where our ignorance starts, in order to reserve a space of freedom to us. Without it, our humanity would be likely to disappear, without a future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article tries to answer this question: Does extraterrestrial intelligent life threaten religion and philosophy? It analyzes the place occupied by imagination in the awareness of the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligent life, as the apprehension of UFO phenomena. In addition, it introduces the question of the influence the imagined alien might have on our ideas about ourselves as earthbound human beings. Finally, it shows that the Christian tradition, far from the hesitations and the scientific debates in connection with the extraterrestrial question, has always shown interest in this question in an open way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]