Alien Life

In a biblical worldview, we don’t expect alien life to exist. The Bible tells us Earth was formed to be inhabited and the other celestial bodies were created for signs, seasons, days, and years. It was to Earth that Jesus came to save us, not to another planet to save another race of beings.

From The New Answers DVD 3

Is Anyone Out There?

Many have been taught that life arose on this planet spontaneously and evolved into complex organisms. If it happened here, they believe, surely it could happen elsewhere in the universe. Some believe that these space beings (aliens) hold the key to health and eternal life.

Finding Water on Mars—Key to Alien Life?

Evidence of water is almost always interpreted with enthusiasm by those who believe that a little water, the right organic compounds, and an awful lot of time are together sufficient for life to appear. The journal Astrobiology reminds scientists that the presence of water, even if it’s in liquid form, isn’t enough for life to survive.

What Does the Bible Say About Aliens?

Many Christians have bought into the idea of extraterrestrial alien life. But is this idea really biblical? The Christian should constantly examine ideas in light of Scripture.

Has an Alien Skull Been Found?

“Starchild” is the name given to a misshapen skull claimed by some to be an alien-human hybrid. However, the skull abnormalities, while not fitting any particular “named” syndrome, are all consistent with the sorts of abnormalities seen in human children with genetic problems.

News About Alien Life

• News

  Could We Use AI to Communicate with Aliens?

  

  Oct. 19, 2023 from Ken Ham Blog

  According to a recent article, AI and dolphins (yes, dolphins!) may be the best way to communicate with an alien.

Articles About Alien Life

• Is Anyone out There?

  Among the innumerable galaxies of our universe are various planets, some similar in shape and size to Earth. Could some of these distant planets harbor life?

• Magazine Article

  The Evidence Is In: We’re Alone in the Universe

  

  Nov. 10, 2024 from Answers Magazine

  ET isn’t a mystery if you’re willing to examine the data from 60 years of research and take it to its logical conclusion.

• Did God Create Alien Life?

  

  May 4, 2024

  How should Christians think about sci-fi?

• Magazine Department Article

  Looking for Life in All the Wet Places

  

  Jan. 1, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  It’s a wet solar system. Is it also dripping with life?

• Magazine Article

  Do I Believe in UFOs? Absolutely!

  

  July 21, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  Is there intelligent life in outer space?

• Is ET Calling Us?

  

  Jan. 12, 2021

  SETI experiment suggests non-natural radio signal coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, but it seems to be another failed attempt to find alien life.

• Superhabitable Planets

  

  Oct. 21, 2020

  Astronomers have attempted to identify exoplanets likely to support life though their efforts have generated scant results so far.

• Alien Abductions: Freaky or Fiction?

  

  Aug. 11, 2020 from Countering the Culture

  Some report communication with aliens and some even claim to have been taken aboard spaceships. What are we to make of claims of alien abductions?

• Book Chapter

  Are Aliens Real?

  

  Aug. 7, 2020 from The New Answers Book 1

  Many Christians have bought into the idea of extraterrestrial alien life. But is this idea really biblical?

• Magazine Department Article

  Is There Life on Other Planets?

  

  Nov. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Is there life out there? Science doesn’t have the answer, but the Bible does.

• Magazine Article

  Is Belief in Alien Life Harmless?

  

  May 28, 2017 from Answers Magazine

  The thought that aliens might be living on other planets may sound innocent enough. But lurking underneath are some deep theological dangers.

• Are Aliens Going to Hell?

  

  July 29, 2014

  Many media outlets are guilty of spreading outright lies for the sake of maligning those of us who stand for God’s Word beginning in Genesis.

• Magazine Department Article

  Alien Thinking

  Oct. 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine

  Both the X-rays and simple visual examination of Ata, however, are consistent with a miscarried human baby.

• DNA Confirms Tiny Body from Atacama Desert as Human

  April 27, 2013 from News to Know

  DNA confirms tiny body from Atacama Desert belonged to a human.

• Feedback Article

  Starchild—Alien-human Hybrid?

  June 29, 2012 from Feedback

  In response to a question on Ken Ham’s Facebook page, we decided to review the history and claims regarding Starchild, the misshapen skull claimed by some to be an alien-human hybrid.

• Magazine Article

  The Search for Alien Life

  

  March 4, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  Why do we even bother seeking out alien life?

• Did God’s Plan Include Life On Other Planets?

  Oct. 8, 2011 from News to Know

  Did E. T. sin, and, if so, did Jesus die to save him/it?

• Life as an Outcast

  Feb. 19, 2011 from News to Know

  A few weeks ago we reported that the continued search for habitable extrasolar planets has revealed how special Earth is. So if aliens aren’t on planets orbiting other stars, where else could they be?

• Magazine Department Article

  Don’t Alienate the Aliens

  Dec. 22, 2010 from Answers Magazine

  The UK’s Daily Mail now reports that another Vatican astronomer also says he would be happy to baptize an alien.

• Aliens in Other Universes

  Dec. 18, 2010

  So what if we can’t find alien life in our own universe? Maybe aliens exist in the next universe over.

• Daily Growth in Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life?

  Dec. 11, 2010

  Is the evidence for extraterrestrial life “mounting daily”? It’s the first we’ve heard of it!

• Earth Alien Discovery Under Attack

  Dec. 11, 2010

  Last week we reported on hot news that “alien” life had been discovered—albeit aliens from earth. But since then the widely reported research has come under attack.

• "Aliens” on Earth

  Dec. 4, 2010

  We reported in February and October 2009 on the quest to find “aliens” on earth. This week’s news? They’ve found them.

• Feedback Article

  Why Couldn’t Jesus Save ET?

  Nov. 19, 2010 from Feedback

  How can Answers in Genesis be sure that the Bible discounts the possibility of alien life? Couldn’t Jesus have died for ET? Bodie Hodge, AiG–U.S., tackles this important issue.

• Water Less Likely to Support Life

  May 29, 2010

  Searching the heavens for water as a proxy for life has been astrobiologists’ pastime for years now. But what if—evolutionary beliefs aside—water is even less likely to support life than was believed?

• Stephen Hawking Against Speaking to Aliens

  May 1, 2010 from News to Know

  There’s no evidence that aliens even exist—so why is famous physicist Stephen Hawking so worried we’ll talk to them?

• Would Christianity Survive Discovery of Aliens?

  Feb. 6, 2010 from News to Know

  Would Christianity “survive” the discovery of alien life-forms? Does such a question even make sense?

• Extraterrestrial Cofounder is Far From Giving Up Search

  Jan. 30, 2010

  Despite the ongoing lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life, one cofounder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is far from giving up.

• Vatican Looks for Aliens

  Nov. 14, 2009 from News to Know

  For the Vatican, the question of whether “sentient life forms exist on other worlds” has yet to be answered

• Water Speculation over Saturn Moon

  June 27, 2009 from News to Know

  Scientists have found [indirect evidence of liquid water, which can be spun through evolutionary interpretations as indirect evidence of] life on one of Saturn’s moons!

• Aliens Among Us

  Feb. 21, 2009 from News to Know

  Never mind looking for “aliens” out in space; what if they’re living here among us?

• Talking to Aliens?

  Sept. 8, 2008 from Answers Update

  The Creator of the universe has already communicated with us, yet a U.S. agency is using your tax dollars to teach students how to communicate with aliens!

• Vatican States Beliefs About the Possibility of Alien Life

  May 17, 2008

  Alien life may exist, says Father Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory and labeled by the BBC as “the Pope’s chief astronomer.”

• Vatican Astronomer Believes in ET?

  May 16, 2008

  Vatican astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes recently claimed that there could be alien intelligences in space. What does the Bible say?

• Stephen Hawking on Unintelligent Life

  April 26, 2008 from News to Know

  Speaking at George Washington University this week in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of NASA, Stephen Hawking discussed whether extraterrestrial life exists and, if so, why we haven’t found it, speculating on three answers to that elusive question.

• Magazine Department Article

  California Dreaming?

  April 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  A new telescope system, designed to detect intelligent life in space, came to life last year near San Francisco.

• Precursors to Life Found In Distant Galaxy

  Feb. 9, 2008 from News to Know

  The indication of the presence of an amino acid “precursor” in a distant galaxy is the latest “evidence” that life can spring up wherever.

• Magazine Article

  What Went Wrong at NASA?

  

  Dec. 31, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  Some attribute the decline of NASA to the change in leadership in the early 1970s when NASA began to pursue evolutionary ideas.

• Why We Can't Phone the Aliens

  Oct. 27, 2007 from News to Know

  Science fiction author Ben Bova offers a few explanations for why our search for extraterrestrial life (which is growing more robust with time) has turned up nothing so far.

• Allen Telescope Array Commencing Search for Alien Life

  Oct. 20, 2007

  A new telescope array designed in part to spot alien life got to work this week near San Francisco, California.