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Aliens From Outerspace
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My name is Dave DeWitt.
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Today I want to address the question, what does the Bible say about aliens from outer
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space?
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By way of definition, technically an alien is any foreigner.
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But in the sense we're using it here, the word means what Merriam-Webster calls coming
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from another world or extraterrestrial.
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There are two opposing secular views on the subject, the Drake equation and the Fermi
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paradox.
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The Drake equation is used to estimate the number of active communicative extraterrestrial
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civilizations there could be in the Milky Way galaxy.
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This is not a calculation equation such as E equals mc squared.
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This is a formulation estimation made in 1961 by Frank Drake as a way of stimulating
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the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of the advanced
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extraterrestrial life and the apparently highly likelihood of its existence.
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Apparently the Drake equation says if there's a probability of lots of alien civilizations,
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where is everybody?
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According to the Pew Research Centers, the percentage of people who believe in extraterrestrial
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life existing on other planets includes 65% of adult Americans, 55% of Protestants, 85%
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of atheists and agnostics, also 57% of Americans believe aliens definitely or probably exist.
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Let's be clear.
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Number one, there is no evidence that anyone has ever observed any extraterrestrial alien
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life of any kind, not here, not on any other planet, not anywhere.
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Number two, there is no evidence that anyone has ever observed any spaceship that can be
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demonstrated as coming from anywhere other than Earth.
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If there is one, where is it?
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Why can't we examine it?
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Why is it not in a museum?
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Three, there is no evidence that anyone has ever observed any phenomena, formation structures
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or events, pyramids, stonehenge, circles and cornfields, that can be demonstrated as having
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originated from anywhere other than this Earth.
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Four, there is no evidence that any aliens have tried to contact us.
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We've been sending radio waves out into space since 1974, and today that includes very advanced
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radio telescopes, but we have heard back nothing, complete silence.
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Five, there is no evidence that any planet other than Earth has ever been observed where
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any kind of life could possibly come from.
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All such claims are blind faith assumptions with no observable, demonstrable evidence
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whatsoever.
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Bringing a theory to evidence is not the same as getting information from evidence.
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The Pentagon study released Friday, March 8, 2024, quote, found no evidence of aliens
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or extraterrestrial intelligence, close quote.
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The Defense Department's All Domain Anomaly Research Resolution Office found no evidence
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that any of the UFOs were signs of alien life.
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A NASA study found, quote, no evidence that any of the reported objects were extraterrestrial
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in origin, close quote.
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NASA government report says this, quote, our telescopes in space and on the ground and
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our remote sensing technology grow ever more powerful, yet so far the only life we know
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of is right here at home.
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For the moment, we're staring out into the void, hoping someone's staring back, close
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quote.
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If there are aliens, where are they?
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If the earth is a model of evolution, which is the alien existence assumption, then evolution
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produced this planet we live on teeming with life virtually everywhere.
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Since the natural universe is a product of nature, why is there not multitudes of planets
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teeming with life?
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And since we have produced an atmosphere filled with high-tech equipment, communication, we
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should expect to find that throughout the universe, but there's only silence.
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And since this, according to evolution, has been going on for 13.8 billion years, the
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whole universe should be teeming with everything from primitive to sophisticated life forms.
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So as the Fermi paradox asks, where is everybody?
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What about UFOs?
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UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects, also called UAPs, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, by
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the so-called whistleblowers who reported to Congress in July 27, 2023, that there have
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been repeated sightings of UAPs, this is according to CBS News, unidentified flying
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objects are, by definition, unidentified, not identified as alien.
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UFOs are objects, often lights, seen in the sky that observers cannot identify.
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Examples include Venus, satellites, International Space Station, space shuttles, rockets, observation
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aircraft, weather detection equipment, meteors, balloons, fireflies, aurora, and ventricular
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clouds.
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When the subject of aliens comes up, people usually think about UFOs.
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The implication usually is, if we can't explain them, that proves that they're alien spaceships.
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But such implication violates common sense and the laws of logic.
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It's one thing to interpret something we can observe.
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It's quite another to explain undocumented stories with no actual evidence available
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for explanation.
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The illogical reasoning goes like this, an alien spacecraft would not be explained by
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natural means.
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A certain object or light is unexplained by natural means, therefore the unidentified
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object or light is an alien spacecraft.
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This is a logical fallacy called affirming the consequent.
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It's equivalent to saying, one, if there's no gas in the car, the car won't run.
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Number two, the car won't run, so therefore there's no gas in the car.
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From Wars of the Worlds to Star Trek to E.T., Star Wars to the television series X-Files,
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we have been told the universe is full of aliens.
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Wikipedia lists over 400 films featuring extraterrestrials.
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I know of no TV program or movie about aliens which concludes that they do not exist and
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that we're alone in the universe.
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We're being brainwashed into a worldview that stimulates, that assumes there are aliens.
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It seems that Jesus was talking about worldviews when he said in Matthew 23, if your eye is
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bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
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If then the light that's in you is darkness, how great is the darkness?
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Several problems need to be addressed.
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The basic evolution assumption is this, since life evolved on Earth and there are precisely
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two trillion planets, then there must be a huge number of planets with life on them.
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Now remember, the alien assumption is about material life like ours in this physical universe.
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This is not a discussion about life from another universe, such as the realm of angels
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or demons.
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So the question remains, where is everybody?
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I want to explore that a bit.
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Number one, if UFOs are aliens, no reasonable suggestion has ever been made as to how they
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could travel for millions of years to get here.
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As Albert Einstein proved, nothing in the universe can go faster than the speed of light.
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It's the speed limit of the universe.
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So as matter approaches the speed of light, its mass becomes infinite.
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So only light, photons with zero mass, can travel at the speed of light.
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Even if aliens could go the speed of light, it would take them 2.5 million years to get
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here from our nearest neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
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If we factor in time dilation, the observation that time decreases with speed, we might suggest
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that for them it wouldn't take that long.
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But since any spaceship would have mass, it could only be a fraction of the speed of light.
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Any way you figure it, it would take them millions of years to get here.
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No matter how advanced we can imagine their technology, there's no reasonable way that
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could happen.
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Number two, if UFOs are aliens, how do they find us?
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Do they shoot a spaceship into random direction out of the space and the universe and just
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happen to find us?
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The odds of that are way beyond statistical zero.
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If they were looking for us, Homo sapiens, we didn't come into existence until after
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they left.
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According to evolutionists, Homo sapiens appeared around 190,000 BCE, so aliens would have left
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millions of years before we evolved enough for them to find us.
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All of this is statistically absurd.
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Number three, if UFOs are aliens, how'd they travel through hostile space to get here?
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Outside our solar system, we see what appears to be acts of chaos and destruction everywhere.
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Right now, there are planets crashing into their stars, unattached planets crashing into
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other planets, shock waves of thousands of degrees traveling through the universe, stars
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eating up other stars, comets crashing into planets, black holes sucking up everything
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in their path, whole galaxies colliding with each other, and supernovas destroying entire
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galaxies.
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The universe appears to be a huge place full of spectacular destruction.
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The assumption that aliens somehow survived all that, traveling through it for millions
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of years, to find us, when we had not yet evolved into the human beings when they left,
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is to say at least highly unlikely.
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More like to say absurd.
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There's some additional problems.
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Number four, the chances of life evolving is mathematically impossible everywhere.
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ScientificForums.net reports this, quote, there is less than one chance in 10 to the
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40,000th power that life could have originated by random chance or by random trials.
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10 to the 40,000th power is one with 40,000 zeros after it.
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The enormous content of even the simplest living systems cannot be generated by what
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are often called natural processes.
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For life to have originated on the earth, it would be necessary that quite explicit
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instruction should have been provided for its assembly.
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There's no way which we can expect to avoid to get the need for information, no way in
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which we can simply get by with a bigger and better organic soup, as we ourselves hoped
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might be the possible case a year or two ago, close quote.
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That's all a quote from ScienceForum.net.
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The mathematical probability of life evolving on any given planet is zero.
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For example, the probability of life evolving on a planet in our solar system, say Mars
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or Venus, or Earth for that matter, is zero.
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The probability of life evolving in the next closest exoplanet, the exoplanet Proximity
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Centauri B, is zero.
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An exoplanet is any planet outside our solar system.
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If we go to the next closest exoplanet, the probability of life evolving is zero.
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If we would examine each of the estimated two trillion planets in our universe, one
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at a time, each will have the mathematical probability of zero for life evolving on it.
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Now, I was a math major, so I understand these complex formulas, zero plus zero plus zero
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plus zero plus zero plus zero plus zero plus zero equals zero.
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Six, alien life evolving on other planets would require that planet to have life-preserving
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conditions for over four billion years.
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Evolutionists tell us that it took life four and a half billion years to evolve on Earth.
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But that's within a very narrow range of life-preserving condition.
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It's only reasonable to suppose a life-supporting planet would have really good weather for
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four and a half billion years.
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Of course, they'd need to, more than that, if they were going to be more advanced than
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we are, they'd need a sun that has to be the right size and density, the right distance
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of their planet from the sun, which needs a nearly circular orbit with a perfect magnetic
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field.
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Another planet needs to have a moon like ours.
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If their moons were just a bit different size, there'd be extreme changes in tides and their
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planet's axis would wander chaotically, causing violent climates.
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One might suggest aliens evolved differently.
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But remember, we're talking about life in this physical universe, so they'd have to
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follow the same physical laws that we observe here.
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Seven, alien life would have to evolve not just physically, but socially.
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Alien life to reach us needs to develop in very complex ways.
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Not only must they evolve their technology to the point where they can invent tools and
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vehicles which can traverse billions of space in millions of years, but they must be able
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to develop a language that allows for conceptual communication of our artificial intelligence.
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They must develop science and math and be able to solve problems of social interaction
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beyond anything we've experienced anywhere.
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They'd need to be able to discuss with one another abstract concepts using a complex
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grammar.
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Such development would require involving moral, solving moral dilemmas, overcoming wars and
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deceit beyond anything observable on Earth.
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An alien civilization would have to evolve more than ours in order to not kill each other
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or destroy their own planet before they're left to come here.
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Alien life assumes evolution.
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The idea of life on other planets assumes evolution to be true.
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Evolution is the religion of atheism.
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You can find evolutionists who are not atheists, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an atheist
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who's not an evolutionist.
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And the whole point of evolution is to prove the Bible is not true.
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Looking for aliens is all about disproving the Bible with evolution of life on other
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planets.
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There's nothing about finding life on other planets.
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We're spending millions of dollars not to prove there's life on other planets, but to
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prove life evolved on other planets.
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Suppose, for example, that you asked a scientific community if they thought that there's life
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on other planets because God created it there.
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You'd find real fast that they are only interested in life evolving there.
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That's why they're all excited about finding signs of water, because they believe, contrary
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to all observation, contrary to what's mathematically possible, that life evolved from water.
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This is all about evolution, and evolution is all about disproving the Bible.
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Now, let's talk about the Bible and extraterrestrial aliens.
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CompellingTruth.org says, this is a quote,
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There is no mention of extraterrestrial life in the Bible, but neither does the Bible rule
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out the possibility of life on other planets, close quote.
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But their statement is at best irrelevant.
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Obviously, since the Bible doesn't mention aliens, it doesn't rule them out.
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But the more significant question is, does the Bible support the idea of extraterrestrial
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aliens living on other planets in a three-dimensional universe?
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The biblical authors did not seem to leave room for aliens.
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The correct interpretation of anything is whatever the author intended.
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So the relevant question to ask about the authors of the Bible is, do they intend for
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us to consider the possibility of aliens?
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Or we might say, God inspired the authors of the Bible to include his meaning.
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Then the question is, did God intend for the readers of the Bible to understand he was
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referring to aliens?
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Genesis 1 says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, but in 14 and 15
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it says, God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the
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day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons for days and years, and let them
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be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.
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And it was so.
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In Psalm 19, 1, the heavens are telling of the glory of God, and their expanse is declaring
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the work of his hands.
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Psalm 115, 16, The heavens of the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.
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These passages, the word heavens refers to the realm of the galaxies of the universe.
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The Bible tells us that the earth was made for the inhabitation, and the heavenly bodies
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were made for signs and seasons and lights and expanse in the heavens.
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It does not sound like the biblical authors intended us to understand there is the possibility
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that the heavens are places of habitation by other physical life forms.
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It sounds like the authors intended to describe the uniqueness of the earth as a place for
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life.
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Isaiah 40, 22, It's he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its habitations are
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like grasshoppers who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
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Isaiah 42, verse 5, It says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them
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out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, and who gives breath to the people on it and
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spirit to those who walk on it.
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The heavens were created and stretched out by God, but the earth was in its inhabitants
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were people with breath and spirit.
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The assumption seems to be that there is only people with breath and spirit on this earth.
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The curse of Adam and Eve is extended to the whole universe.
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In Romans 8, 20-22, we read, For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly,
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but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will also be set
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free from its slavery to corruption and to the freedom of the glory of the children of
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God.
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For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together
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until now.
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That's a close quote from Romans 8, 20-22.
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Here's an excellent answer from Answers in Genesis, and I quote, When we consider how
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the salvation plan might apply to any hypothetical extraterrestrial but otherwise human-like
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beings, we're presented with a problem.
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If there were Vulcans or Klingons out there, how would they be saved?
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They're not blood relatives of Jesus, so Christ's shed blood cannot pay for their sin.
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One might at first suppose that Christ also visited their world, lived there and died
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there as well.
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But this is anti-biblical.
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Christ died once for all, 1 Peter 3, 18, Hebrews 9, 27-28, and Hebrews 10, 10.
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Jesus now and forever, both God and man, he's not an alien.
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One might suppose that alien beings have never sinned, in which case they would not need
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to be redeemed.
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But then another problem emerges.
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If they suffer the effects of sin, despite having never sinned, Adam's sin has affected
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all of creation, not just mankind.
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Romans 8, 20-22 makes it clear that the entire of creation suffers under the bondage of corruption.
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These kinds of issues highlight the problem of attempting to incorporate an anti-biblical
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notion into Christian worldview.
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That's a close quote.
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That's all a quote from AnswersinGenesis.org.
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Could UFOs be angels or demons?
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We can certainly not rule out the possibility that UFOs could come from the heavenly realm
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or dimension where angelic beings dwell.
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We know both angels and demons have invaded our universe.
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Ezekiel also observed in Ezekiel 1, 14 living beings that ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.
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But we're not here discussing the nature of angelic beings.
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If UFOs are angels or demons or one of the living creatures around the throne of God,
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they're not aliens from other planets.
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But understand they're no biblical example of angels or demons doing things.
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The world identifies as alien activity.
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Summary and conclusion.
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Alien life would require a planet other than Earth, which is physically stable with favorable
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weather for at least 4 billion years so life could evolve on it.
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Even though that's mathematically impossible everywhere, moving the problem to the hostilities
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of outer space does not change the mathematical impossibility of life evolving from non-living matter.
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Aliens on such planets would have to overcome educational, social, and moral barriers while
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creating a technology that allows them to traverse space through a hostile universe
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in a trip that would take millions of years.
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The most rational conclusion according to the proponents of the evidence, and beyond
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any reasonable doubt, is that we're alone.
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The idea that this would change on other planets is a blind faith belief in evolution.
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The theory of aliens is not about finding aliens, it's about finding proof of the theory
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of evolution, which is all about disproving the Bible.
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The Bible tells us that the Earth was made to be inhabited and the heavenly bodies were
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for signs and seasons and lights and expanse of the heavens.
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The Bible talks about physical, material life on Earth, which contrasts with the realm of
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angels and God, visible versus invisible.
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The only place mentioned for physical, material life is here on Earth.
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Questions to consider.
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Do observations of outer space support the evolutionary idea that there is alien life
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on other planets or that we're alone and the Earth is unique?
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Do observations from the Bible support the evolution idea that there is alien life on
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other planets or that life was uniquely created on Earth?
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Could there be alien life on other planets?
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Yes, of course there could be, but we have no evidence for it.
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Could God have created life on other planets?
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Of course he could have, but we have no biblical evidence to support that idea.
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So if he did, it's none of our business.
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Thank you for listening.
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