Creation

[Nevin]

Hi guys...any answers to this one. Look i mean no disrespect and i Love God deeply...He is my Jehovah Shalom...Jehovah Alshaddai....so Lord forgive me if i am sinning by asking this question...but is it possible that God created other planets with life on them. We know that He created the Heavens...and now we are finding out how vast they are. (Just think my God created the heavens and they are so vast imagine how vast He is) Coming back to my question.... Any answers guys...any Biblical scriptures that dispel this or confirms this.

[nebula]

Nevin, I do not believe it to be a sin to ask such questions.

The Bible does not address "what is out there" beyond noting that the "heavens" and the "stars" exist. During the days the Bible was written, people didn't even know what planets were. All they saw were "wandering stars", but they had no clue as to what they were.

So, what the Lord has chosen to do with all the other galaxies out there, who knows?

As for aliens visiting Earth (I know, not you question, but it relates), unless they were able to discover new principles of physics which are still to us unknown, it would be impossible for living beings from another solar system to reach us.

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system beyond our own solar system, being 4.39 light-years distant (about 25.8 trillion miles or 277,600 AU) (Proxima Centauri, often regarded as part of the system, is 4.26 light-years distant).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_centauri

The closest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is actually a red dwarf star - meaning that it does not have the capabilities our sun has to support life. To find such a star, you would have to travel . . . many light years distance further. Get the idea of how long it would take to travel through space? (Even the "warp speed" of Star Trek would be insufficient to actually travel the distances they claimed.)

So, if there is some form of life, even bacterial, I have high doubts that it will ever be found in our lifetime.

[Nevin]

Nevin, I do not believe it to be a sin to ask such questions.

The Bible does not address "what is out there" beyond noting that the "heavens" and the "stars" exist. During the days the Bible was written, people didn't even know what planets were. All they saw were "wandering stars", but they had no clue as to what they were.

So, what the Lord has chosen to do with all the other galaxies out there, who knows?

As for aliens visiting Earth (I know, not you question, but it relates), unless they were able to discover new principles of physics which are still to us unknown, it would be impossible for living beings from another solar system to reach us.

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system beyond our own solar system, being 4.39 light-years distant (about 25.8 trillion miles or 277,600 AU) (Proxima Centauri, often regarded as part of the system, is 4.26 light-years distant).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_centauri

The closest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is actually a red dwarf star - meaning that it does not have the capabilities our sun has to support life. To find such a star, you would have to travel . . . many light years distance further. Get the idea of how long it would take to travel through space? (Even the "warp speed" of Star Trek would be insufficient to actually travel the distances they claimed.)

So, if there is some form of life, even bacterial, I have high doubts that it will ever be found in our lifetime.

FromNevin

Thank you for taking the time to respond to me with such an eloquent answer

[buckthesystem]

As God has created our planet with its capability of supporting life and us on it, it seems to me to be terribly arrogant of us to assume that he didn't also create others.

Somewhere, out there!

However, I don't believe that any other civilisation is "vastly mentally superior" to our own or even "more technologically advanced" and capable of sending "UFOs" here.

For the right conditions to exist anywhere else that are capable of sustaining life, it must be incredible far away. So it is likely that we will never meet.

Just my opinion anyway.

[EricH]

God has not made us privy to what He is doing on other planets and in other galaxies

[nebula]

The only means of travel over the absurdly long distances between stars is the use of a wormhole, and you'll never convince me that an artificial wormhole can be constructed by technology.

As far as I know, we don't even know if wormholes actually exist (exept maybe on the "string theory level")?

[Marnie]

I don't think there is life on other planets. The Bible gives no indication that there is. If you believe there is, you have to ask the question, Why? We know we were created for a purpose (just ask Rick Warren... ), so what would be the purpose of putting intelligent life on another planet? And when you have that answer, you need to reconcile your belief with Scripture.

[Abigailwc]

My son would love to meet some aliens, specially if they look completely different than us!

[nebula]

My son would love to meet some aliens, specially if they look completely different than us!

Yes, but just so long as they don't say such things as:

"You have made me very angry very angry indeed"

"If you only knew the power of the Dark Side."

"What do you want?"

"Exterminate!"

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me. . ."

[LadyRaven]

The only means of travel over the absurdly long distances between stars is the use of a wormhole, and you'll never convince me that an artificial wormhole can be constructed by technology.

As far as I know, we don't even know if wormholes actually exist (exept maybe on the "string theory level")?

You said the phrase that makes my mind spontaneously combust. And yet I'll watch any show on the science channel about it (String Theory).

as far as life on other planets...The Bible doesn't say yeah or nay. So...maybe maybe not. My faith would not be shaken in the least if a UFO landed in my yard and aliens popped out (if of course they were recogniseable by me as such). God created everything and he certainly is CAPABLE of creating another world. And I'm also convinced that if He did, HE would also be the Lord of it. Nothing is out of his control.