Gary Bates, CEO of Creation Ministries International and the author of the best-selling book Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection, has responded to my previous post, Gary Bates Thinks ET Could Potentially Falsify The Bible. Predictably , he has taken objection to it and to an earlier post refuting his anti-alien arguments called Why ET Probably Doesn’t Need To…
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Gary Bates Thinks ET Could Potentially Falsify the Bible
Gary Bates is the CEO of Creation Ministries International and the author of the best-selling book Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection. It is perhaps no surprise that Bates does not believe aliens exist, especially intelligent aliens capable of moral decisions, because he feels the latter could potentially falsify Christianity. During a lecture given…
Strangers & Aliens: Sci-Fi, UFOs and Alien Life Re-Examined
Last year, I began writing a book about aliens and UFOs, with a particular emphasis on some bad arguments that are being tossed around by some of my fellow Young Earth Creationists against the possibility of extraterrestrial life. At long last, my trek down the Ufological rabbit hole has come to and end! I’ve definitely…
Something for the ET-loving Geeks Out There
Some of you know that I’m writing a new non-fiction book about aliens, UFOs and the Bible. The concept for the book developed slowly, mostly – and oddly enough – as a result of my research for the as-yet-forthcoming sequel to my action-packed sci-fi book, Johnny Came Home. Johnny Came Home was a work of…
Why ET Probably Doesn’t Need To Be Saved Anyway
Gary Bates, CEO of Creation Ministries International & author of Alien Intrusion gives four reasons why extraterrestrials are theologically impossible, but do his arguments hold water?
The UFO Deception: How Answers in Genesis & Other Creationist Organizations Are Getting Aliens Wrong
Why it’s important not to confuse the UFO/alien abduction deception with the ultimate question of whether extraterrestrials exist
ET Go Home! How Conservative Christianity’s Rejection of Aliens Reveals Bigger Concerns
Common arguments used by Christians against the idea of extraterrestrial life are built on logical fallacies, but you can’t support the truth with error!
Is Belief In Alien Life Harmless? Why Creationists Are Wrong About Aliens And The Bible
A response to Dr. Danny Faulkner’s “Is Belief in Alien Life Harmless?” Moving past fear-mongering and bad logic to a reasonable exploration of the question of extraterrestrial life.
Creation Cryptids: Little Green Men & UFOs 2
A Christian simply has to acknowledge the UFO enigma. I mean, what are these strange lights in the heavens? Who pilots them, if anyone? And why in the blazes are they in our skies? And who benefits? [More on this in a moment.] Now there are several ways we might account for UFOs. 1. A…
Creation Cryptids: The Mothman or When Cryptids Prove False
—Creation Cryptids: Mothman The Mothman of Point[less] Pleasant, West Virginia, is sort of a weird cousin of mine. That is, one legend has it that the Mothman was spawned by the curse that Chief Cornstalk placed upon Point Pleasant as the white men he was trying to save betrayed and then murdered him [and his…
Creation Cryptids: Little Green Men & UFOs
The following originally appeared in answer to a comment on this post. Aliens and UFOs. OK. I hail from West Virginia, home of Gray Barker [credited with possibly inventing the Men In Black], the Mothman of Point Pleasant and the Green Monster of Flatwoods [aka the Flatwoods Monster], all of which have been linked to…
“Absent from the body” & Ghosts
I found myself discussing whether ghosts were possible from a Christian POV. Most of our discussion revolved around the phrase, “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” and Christ’s words to the repentant thief, “Today, you will be with me in Paradise.” I personally think that ghosts as restless…
