Does your faith in God mean you believe we're alone in the universe?

Question

Would your faith in God waiver if there was undeniable proof of aliens?

Answer 1

Well done, that's a very thought-provoking question!

According to science writer Isaac Asimov, this is “a question that, in a way, spoils everything” for those who believe in life on other planets. Originally posed in 1950 by nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, the question capped an argument that went something like this: If intelligent life has arisen on other planets in our galaxy, many civilizations should now exist that are millions of years ahead of our own. They should have developed interstellar travel long ago and spread abroad in the galaxy, colonizing and exploring at will. So where are they?

While some SETI scientists are admittedly shaken by this “Fermi paradox,” they often reply to it by pointing out how difficult it would be to voyage between the stars. Even at the speed of light, enormous though that is, it would take a spaceship a hundred thousand years to traverse just our own galaxy. Surpassing that speed is deemed impossible (outside of Star Trek).

Science fiction that features ships hopping from one star to another in a matter of days or hours is fantasy, not science. The distances between stars are vast almost beyond our comprehension. In fact, if we could build a model of our galaxy so tiny that our sun (which is so huge that it could swallow a million earths) was shrunk to the size of an orange, the distance between the stars in this model would still average a thousand miles [some 1,500 km]!

American physicist Freeman J. Dyson has concluded that if advanced civilizations exist in our galaxy, finding evidence of them should be as easy as finding signs of technological civilization on Manhattan Island in New York City. The galaxy should be buzzing with alien signals and their immense engineering projects. But none have been found. In fact, one article on the subject noted that “searched, found nothing” has become like a religious chant for SETI astronomers.

Even if planets similar to Earth exist—and some indirect evidence has accumulated to indicate that they do—this still does not mean that they orbit precisely the right kind of star in the right galactic neighborhood, at precisely the right distance from the star, and are themselves of precisely the right size and composition to sustain life.

Scientists Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe estimate that the odds against life’s vital enzymes forming by chance are one in 10 to the power of 40,000 (1 with 40,000 zeros after it).

Scientists Feinberg and Shapiro go still further. In their book Life Beyond Earth, they put the odds against the material in an organic soup ever taking the first rudimentary steps toward life at one in 10 to the power of 1,000,000. Instead of trying to get to grips with these numbers, the word 'impossibe' is alot simpler.

Hoyle and Wickramasinghe observe that “the theory that life was assembled by an intelligence” is “vastly” more probable than spontaneous generation. “Indeed,” they add, “such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.” Yes, many scientists recoil from the idea of a Creator, even though the evidence points that way. In the process, they have created a religion of their own. As the above authors see it, Darwinism simply replaces the word “God” with the word “Nature.”

I personally do not believe there are aliens out there, even at the microscopic level. As has already been stated, the Bible does not mention God creating other beings on other planets. However, if someone showed me undeniable proof that we were not alone, I would not doubt the existence of a God. I would understand that he has been even busier than previously thought.

Answer 2

"Would your faith in God waiver if there was undeniable proof of aliens?"
YES. But truth is science has already proved 'We are alone' in the universe.
Project SETI, almost 50 yrs old now, has not found 1 single ping out there. Yet the same scientists who propose life elsewhere, claim the fact that over the last 6 billion years, 100's 0f billions of civalizations must have come and gone? But not a one ever got a radio signal out to the rest of the universe? Not even a ping? A ping could travel an awful long time through and into the universe in the course of 6 billion years.
No evidence will ever be found and UFO's are the product of the lord of the air. (satan)

Answer 3

are we so arrogant that one would believe we are the only intelligent race in the entire universe . i believe we already have undeniable proof of aliens in heiroclifics from the equiptions and the mayans . hey but to be really honest if you was an alien race would you be so eager to be know to humans which are a war waging race . maybe even a primitive race by their standards . undeniable proof of aliens would only further my belief in the almighty

Answer 4

The Bible shows us quite clearly that we are not alone in the univrerse. It speaks about God, angels and demons, none of whom inhabit the physical universe, but a spirit realm. They can enter our physical universe, but we can't enter their universe.
The demons are particularly noteworthy in view of your question. They want to prevent as many people as possible from believing in God. They have succeeded in many ways through many types of falsehood.
It is quite possible that the hard evidence for the existence of people from other worlds has been cleverly faked by the demons in order to subvert belief in God. This is one of the many reasons why people today choose not to have faith in their creator.
To answer your second question: I don't think that the hardest evidence possible will ever surface (live aliens seen by many independant witnesses several times or technology which could not possibly be from a human source). In other words, i don't think the evidence will ever be good enough to subvert my faith in God.

Answer 5

No. I personally do believe there is life out there. It is even likely that there is life in this solar system. Since God has made all this amazing stuff for us to explore, it only makes sense that he would put some alien life out there for us to find (meaning like microbes on Mars or something along those lines). As far as sentient life goes, I doubt we'll ever find any, but it still wouldn't affect my belief. I think the only possible thing that might cause me to question our uniqueness would be if the aliens had religion. Not gonna happen.

Answer 6

I would have to say yes we are the only "humans" made in the image of God. Do we presume that time and time again God has created, made a garden of Eden and placed an Adam there and told Adam not to eat of the tree and time and time again its played out that God has to send His Son Jesus to die for that population....or what if a population never sinned?

Not only that but wouldnt you think that God would have expressed it when He inspired the Bible? I would say that other creations (not other planets or galaxies) in human form are not there. We are His beloved creation and He watches over us.

Answer 7

There is no mention of other life in the Bible. So if aliens show up tomorrow, cool! The Bible doesn't say anything one way or the other so I'm not phased.

Answer 8

Nope, my relationship with the Divine suggests very much that there are many life forms across the universe

Answer 9

I wish some alien would come down and proof them all wrong .x

Answer 10

I find this question redundant and frustrating. Why would we limit God in our minds by believing He could only create one world with intelligent life? The universe is a big place and God's even bigger. If Gene Roddenberry could imagine life on other planets, why couldn't God?