Atheists & Other Freethinkers: Thinking About Life in the Universe: A Presentation by Jeff Rodgers | Sunday 2025-06-22 @ 2PM

Are we alone? The question has bedeviled humans for centuries. With the discovery of exoplanets in the 1990s and ever-improving technology that allows us to observe much of the universe, the answer has, for decades, seemed tantalizingly close. And yet, still, nothing.

Join Jeff Rodgers for an historical overview of our thinking about life beyond Earth, an up-to-the-minute run through the Drake Equation to assess the odds of life in our galaxy, and a discussion about why we may, in fact, be alone.

Jeff Rodgers is Manager of the UC Davis Multiverse Theater at the Museum of Science and Curiosity. Prior to moving to Sacramento, he served for fifteen years as Director of the Bishop Planetarium in Bradenton Florida and ten years as a popular lecturer at the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium in New York City.