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Disclosure Day Is Fun, But It Didn’t Rock My Faith

Spielberg's message is not only that aliens are real but also that they’re good and they’re our friends. I find that very curious: How is he so sure? Read More ›
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Spielberg’s Latest Is E.T. Without the Charm

Of the two characters in the film whom Steven Spielberg presents to us as the most compassionate and wise, one is a Catholic nun. Read More ›
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For Extraterrestrial Life, All Credit to a Creator

As Casey Luskin reminds us, technology-using aliens would — by the intent of the cosmic design — need to live on a planet like ours with a physiology like ours. Read More ›
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If You Care About Faith, Bring on the Aliens, Mr. Spielberg!

Luskin: "If alien life does exist, and if it looks or works even remotely like human biology, then it did not arise by blind evolution." Read More ›
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We Are Not Alone? No, We Never Were

C. S. Lewis was always game for a chat about God and aliens, as recalled by his protégé Sheldon Vanauken. Read More ›
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Luskin: Alien Life Would Challenge Evolution, Not Religion

A theme in social media chatter has been that the disclosure will challenge religious beliefs, and that it may be a “psyop” directed against Christian faith. Read More ›
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What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›
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Luskin: If Aliens Exist, They Were Designed Just Like We Were

I’m an agnostic on these purported technologically super-advanced creatures with their physics-defying crafts. Read More ›
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Project Hail Mary Can’t Outrun the God Hypothesis

How could something with a structure this complicated have evolved twice? Ryland Grace thinks it couldn’t have. Read More ›
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When Should Mysterious Signals from Space Be Attributed to Alien Intelligence?

Intelligent design advocates agree that you don’t infer intelligence until there is sufficient reason to reject chance and natural law. Read More ›

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