“if one holds to a biblical worldview, he sees the astonishing lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life—especially considering how actively man has searched for it for decades. Thus, there is not only no reason for the Christian to believe aliens exist, but reason for the Christian to believe aliens don’t exist.”
Doesn’t that depend on the technology level required to competently search for any hypothetical life outside of what we know? I mean 3000 years ago it would have been the same argument about trying to prove unknown lands and peoples across the sea actually exist.
Freegards
Decades is nothing in space-time. If you compressed the entire history of the Universe until now into a year, all of recorded human history would take place on December 31. Given the vastness of the Universe, it could take thousands and thousands of light-years before an alien signal would even reach us...at which time, we wouldn’t even exist anymore.
I think the search for alien life stems largely from an unbiblical evolutionary mindset, so all the technology in the world won’t matter. To evolutionists the earth is “just another planet” but one where the conditions just happened to be exactly right for life to form and evolve. If there are countless billions of other planets in our galaxy, then surely at least a handful of these worlds have also had the right conditions. Extraterrestrial life is almost inevitable in an evolutionary worldview.
As I said above, the actual discovery of alien life would not destroy my faith, but it would create all kinds of difficult questions for Christians. In the end, based on my understanding of the Bible, I don’t believe they exist. Evolutionists are wrong. Earth isn’t “just another planet.” The Son of God came to this planet and He came as a man, not a Klingon.