Do you believe aliens exist?

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I do not. The fact that cameras are very common, and no good footage of a UFO has been captured tells me that they never came to this planet. If they came with the frequency that the pro UFO crowd claims, than somebody would have captured irrefutable evidence that they exist. But the vidos UFO believers show often are shown to be pranks pulled with flairs at night.

I also don’t believe God created aliens on other planets. I believe God created people and angles only.
 
Yes, I believe in aliens.

Are they intelligent? Maybe. There are many levels of intelligence. Chimpanzees are intelligent, just not as intelligent as we are.

Are they capable of space travel? I doubt it, but it’s still in the realm of possibility.

Have they visited Earth? No, I don’t believe they visited the Earth. You pointed out one good reason. Another is the people who stare at the skies all day long, like astronomers, never seem to see these things.
 
I acknowledge the possibility of other life on other worlds. I don’t like the idea of putting God in a box by saying “He only created this or that”.

Nothing is beyond the Lord, including the creation of alien life.
 
The universe is unimaginably vast, so it’s possible that life may have arisen elsewhere.

But flying saucers? Aliens who have visited this planet? There’s no evidence to demonstrate that.

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It is troubling that it is asserted that because the universe is perceived as vast that life must exist somewhere else in that universe. Also troubling is the thinking that: “How egotisitical man must be to think that Earth is the only planet with life”.

Both notions remove God from life-creating – as if life is a combination of random scientific processes. All that exists, including ANY form of life is created by God. Despite the vastness of the universe life exists on Earth. If God did not create life anywhere else then it does not exist anywhere else.
 
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It is troubling that it is asserted that because the universe is perceived as vast that life must exist somewhere else in that universe. Also troubling is the thinking that: “How egotisitical man must be to think that Earth is the only planet with life”.

Both notions remove God from life-creating – as if life is a combination of random scientific processes. All that exists, including ANY form of life is created by God. Despite the vastness of the universe life exists on Earth. If God did not create life anywhere else then it does not exist anywhere else.
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Science and experience seems to show us that things work through natural processes.
It seems more reasonable to me and more theologically sound, to believe that God uses secondary causes (natural events), deterministic environments, and natural laws, in order to bring about desired ends. Therefore there is a possibility that life evolved elsewhere.
 
“Seems” – key word there. Life isn’t “seems” but instead is created by God. If He has created it elsewhere then it is. If He has not created it elsewhere then it is not. Now if we want to reword Truth to make it more palatable we could say, God developed the processes here and there that would result in His created life. On the other hand he could have just put the processes in place on just Earth.
 
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“Seems” – key word there. Life isn’t “seems” but instead is created by God. If He has created it elsewhere then it is. If He has not created it elsewhere then it is not. Now if we want to reword Truth to make it more palatable we could say, God developed the processes here and there that would result in His created life. On the other hand he could have just put the processes in place on just Earth.
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You assume that God only wanted to create life on this planet. Your correct to say that nothing is which God does not will. However the process in which God achieves his desired end appears to be purely natural. The location of life will be dependent upon the planets being in the correct place and time, rather then God picking a location specifically for life irrespective of natural events. This means that those planets that are in the correct locations in space-time, will possibly develop life naturally, rather then through God directly manipulating events.

However; like you say, if God wants to create other civilizations on other planets, then who are we to say this is not so. The universe is vast, therefore its reasonable to assume that God created other civilizations on other planets. I can think of no objection. Can you?
 
I don’t believe in aliens.

But if they did exist, we would be aliens to them.
 
Well, I don’t believe in aliens simply because we should have by now received some form of transmission whether it is an alien version of “I Love Lucy” or radio signal, even if it is very weak. Not to say alien life is totally out of the question, it is possible of finding planets with similar atmosphere with perhaps plant life and lower animals. I do believe that God in His infinite mercy and grace has created additional worlds for us to settle upon, so that we can spread out unto new worlds, so we may be fruitful and multiply.

Some people think that it is such a large universe that it is inevitable that intelligent extraterrestial exists, however we live in an extremely fine tuned universe and the conditions that are required for life are probably rarer than we think.

Personally, if any of these ufo’s are real, I don’t think they are extraterrestial, here goes the science fiction here, but I think they could be humans from the future, because based on what I hear from so called abductions, it seems to me that more advanced humans from the future has lost the ability to reproduce naturally, so they come back in time abduct people, abstract DNA and whatever else they need, produce ‘hybrids’ and return to the future in hopes of preserving humanity.
 
This reminds me of a news story that came out a little while ago – the head of the Vatican Observatory suggested not only that aliens could exist, but that they could belong to a species that never committed an original sin and so remains in a state of unbroken friendship with God:

catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802629.htm

Of course, it’s just speculation.

Personally, I believe there could be aliens out there; it was a big surprise to Europeans to find a “New World” across the Atlantic Ocean a few centuries ago, and the indigenous people of the American continents must have thought the Europeans, with their different-colored skin and enormous ships and amazing technical inventions, were totally “alien.” For us, encountering extraterrestrial life would be just as surprising, but not impossible.

Peace,
+AMDG+
 
I thought we had good evidence of aliens living south of the US border? And when they head north they become illegal aliens.

I am also curious to see the video footage of God since that seems to be a major criteria of belief for the OP.
 
IMO, I believe with how infinate amd mighty God is, that yes there could be other civilizations and life elsewhere. Finding such things wouldn’t discount God, but would glorify him.
 
Yes. Some have Green Cards, some don’t.😃

As for beings from elsewhere in the universe, who are we to deny God the ability to create intellegent life that might be able to visit our little planet? With or without proper documents.
 
I believe there is intelligent life elsewhere in our vast universe, yes. I can’t imagine it otherwise. Our God is an awesome God.
 
I don’t believe God couldn’t have crated life anywhere else, I just don’t think he did. I mean, perhaps there are animals or plants on another planet, but I doubt there are human like creatures.

What I really doubt is this claim that aliens came here on space ships or took people up. The people who claim that aliens took them on board a ship always look crazy. It may sound mean, but that’s how they look to me. Larry King always has them on.
 
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What I really doubt is this claim that aliens came here on space ships or took people up. The people who claim that aliens took them on board a ship always look crazy. It may sound mean, but that’s how they look to me. Larry King always has them on.
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Thats what some people say about Christians.
 
Haven’t they already found some low forms of life on Mars? I remember reading about the Russians discovering some bacteria around the time of a Russian presidential election, so it didn’t get that much publicity.

I don’t believe in flying saucers, but life may be somewhere out there.
 
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