Aliens, God and Christians

The Vatican (the Catholic home base, you know, where the Pope lives) has recently held a conference on extraterrestrial life. They brought in experts from around the globe to ponder the possibility of life on other planet. They came up with there conclusions and you can search for them on your own (look at the links to the articles below and just Google it as you do everything else) but what I just though I would take a moment and add my two cents.

It is probably best to start out and say that I don't think that aliens have ever visited planet earth. I have seen my fair share of UFO's, each one explained by low flying planes and low flying helicopters. I have even watched my fair share of Sci-Fi movies, most of them so unrealistic and accompanied by really bad acting, however there are a few out good ones out there. But I really don't understand why the aliens always have the upper hand and are smarter, but, that's the movies. What can we say for real as Believers about aliens?

Here is what we know:
Genisis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

I am a creationist and fully believe God spoke the universe into existence. I don't know how this happened and don't know when it happened, but I do believe that God is timeless and His words had and have the ability to create, thus created the universe and all that is in it. On a side note and I will hash through this later, I kinda like the idea of the Big Bang Theory. How else would it look if God spoke the world into existence, Boom Baby! I'm not saying this is how, but good theory guys. So we have this universe that God has created and we really don't even know how big it is. NASA says; "No one knows if the universe is infinitely large, or even if ours is the only universe that exists."* Nova estimates the size of the universe at 28 Light Years in diameter, but that's just as far as we can see.** At any rate that's huge.

Right now we are trying to find out if there is life on Mars, just a little speck of bacteria would set scientist into a frenzy because there would be life on another planet. So how far is Mars away from the earth? Well at its closest it is 34 million miles away and when it is at its farthest 249 million miles, its different because of the different orbits of the Earth and Mars. We are still talking miles here, not light years. Also, we are in the Milky Way Galaxy and are only one of well hundreds of billions. The Hubble Telescope has visibly recorded 3000+ galaxies and estimates the possibility of 500 billion galaxies.

My conclusion is very simple and relies on logic and a high view of God. If we as humans cannot determine or find if there is life or not on a planet that is only millions of miles away how can we definitively say that there is not life on the billions of other planets in the billions of other galaxies, billions of light years away. Why limit God to only one planet of life. I do not know if there is life on another planet and I am not even saying there is. However, I do not ever want to limit God and His creation. If God has created life on other planets, then there is life on other planets. What He does and how He deals with them is His business.

So, UFOs? I don't think visitors from another planet have ever visited. If there are aliens out there with any kind of intellectual capacity, they are probably looking into the sky wondering if there is life out there beyond them.


Yahoo New's article on the Vatican and ET
Spaceship Fellowship's article
Google Search for the Vatican and Extraterrestrial life Conference
*NASA's response to "How Big is the Universe?"
**Nova's response to "How Big is the Universe?"