Over lunch, I printed off and read an article in The Altantic by Paul Davies about the impact of finding extraterrestrial life would have on Earth's organized religions: "...the discovery of just a single bacterium somewhere beyond Earth would force us to revise our understanding of who we are and where we fit into the cosmic scheme of things, throwing us into a deep spiritual identity crisis that would be every bit as dramatic as the one Copernicus brought about in the early 1500s, when he asserted that Earth was not at the center of the universe."