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Shall we consider Mediaite to be a source favorable toward biblical studies and interpretation?

What does that have to do with what Ham said?

You mean, what he said at the link from the medeaite article you quoted, that starts:

Update: Since secularists and some media outlets have been falsely accusing me of saying space aliens are going to hell as a result of this post, please read my response here.

After I read that, I decided that I probably wouldn't trust what Medeaite wrote, and I'd just participate in a rational discussion of the topic instead.

But his actual point was this:

The Bible, in sharp contrast to the secular worldview, teaches that earth was specially created, that it is unique and the focus of God’s attention (Isaiah 66:1 and Psalm 115:16). Life did not evolve but was specially created by God, as Genesis clearly teaches. Christians certainly shouldn’t expect alien life to be cropping up across the universe.

As part of his reasoning, he made what I believe to be a theologically unsound point that Adam's original sin would have impact on aliens because the Bible said it hurt the "whole creation". It is not an irrational interpretation, but "whole creation" could have been related to earth; and anyway, that the whole of creation was injured by the fall, only man and his descendants are actually infected by original sin and need salvation.

But it is a false and deliberately misleading claim that he said aliens were going to hell. He said they didn't exist.