Post by fearnot on May 1, 2023 11:19:12 GMT -5
Silence reveals insights in search for extraterrestrial life
.....He is the God who formed the earth and made it,
He established it
and did not create it a waste place,
but formed it to be inhabited
Isaiah 45:18
At the bottom of this page,
I give the link to this article
but
ALSO..
an additional article on Aliens
by astrophysicist
and
a Christian YEC
Dr. Jason Lisle
This is the first article
and
the second article with some excerpts
and the link to Dr. Lisle is below this first one.
"For over sixty years, amateur and professional astronomers have been monitoring the sky in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). So far, to no avail.
But how should we read the absence of alien radio signals?
If it is true that we've been in a void region for sixty years,
our model suggests that there are less than one to five electromagnetic emissions per century anywhere in our galaxy.
This would make them about as rare as supernovas in the Milky Way," says Grimaldi.
In the most optimistic scenario, we would have to wait more than 60 years for one of these signals to reach our planet.
In the least optimistic scenario,
that number would go up to around 2,000 years.
The "pessimistic" camp, on the other hand, interprets the silence as indicating the absence of alien life in our galaxy.
phys.org/news/2023-04-silence-reveals-insights-extraterrestrial-life.html
and an article on Aliens by astrophysicist and a Christian YEC Dr. Jason Lisle
Here are some excerpts of Dr. Lisle's article in 2006:
"The idea of "extraterrestrial life" stems largely from a belief in evolution.
Recall that in the evolutionary view, the earth is “just another planet”—one where the conditions just happened to be 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.
However, the notion of alien life does not square well with Scripture. The earth is unique. God designed the earth for life
The other planets have an entirely different purpose than does the earth, and thus, they are designed differently.
Problems are multiplied when we consider the possibility of intelligent alien life.
Science fiction programming abounds with races of people who evolved on other worlds.
We see examples of Vulcans and Klingons—pseudohumans similar to us in most respects but different in others.
Although very entertaining, such alien races are theologically problematic. Intelligent alien beings cannot be redeemed. God’s plan of redemption is for human beings: those descended from Adam. Let us examine the conflict between the salvation message and the notion of alien life....
how would they be saved?
They are not blood relatives of Jesus,
and so Christ’s shed blood cannot pay for their sin.
One might at first suppose that Christ also visited their world, lived there, and died there as well,
but this is antibiblical.
Christ died once for all...
One might suppose that alien beings have never sinned,
in which case they would not need to be redeemed.
But then another problem emerges:
they suffer the effects of sin, despite having never sinned.
Adam’s sin has affected all of creation—
not just mankind.
So far, no one has discovered life on other planets
or detected any radio signals from intelligent aliens.
This is certainly what a biblical creationist would expect.
Secular astronomers continue to search for life on other worlds,
but they have found only rocks and inanimate matter.
Their radio searches are met with silence.
It has been said that the atomic scientist Enrico Fermi was once discussing the topic of extraterrestrial life when he asked the profound question, “Where is everybody?”
Since there are quite possibly multiple billions of planets in our galaxy, and since in the secular view these are all accidents, it is almost inevitable that some of these had the right conditions for life to evolve.
And if some of these worlds are billions of years older than ours, then at least some of them would have evolved intelligent life eons ago. The universe should therefore have countless numbers of technologically superior civilizations, any one of which could have colonized our galaxy ages ago.
Yet, we find no evidence of these civilizations. Where is everybody?
This problem has become known as the “Fermi paradox.”
answersingenesis.org/astronomy/alien-life/are-aliens-real/
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