extraterrestrial life

Are aliens real? Do UFOs really exist? These questions, once relegated to the confines of conspiratorial enterprises, are now legitimately being pondered among some scientists, academics — and even in the halls of Congress. It’s an issue Dr. Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist and apologist, has long researched and explored.

“I became a UFO expert, but not on purpose,” he recently told “Billy Hallowell’s Playing With Fire” podcast. “I was an amateur astronomer before I became a professional astronomer.”

Ross eventually found himself handling UFO reports at universities, exploring claims people made about aliens and unidentified phenomena. And he came to some fascinating conclusions.

Nothing in the Bible expressly denies or confirms the existence of intelligent life beyond the borders of our planet. God knows, since if such life does exist he would have been the one to create it. However, it’s simply not a question that he cared to answer. That said, just for today I’d like us to pretend that it matters.

A 2021 study from Pew Research found that atheists and other nonreligious Americans are more likely than their religious neighbors to be open to the idea that intelligent aliens exist.