Slice of PIE: “NEW OBSERVATION SHOWS CHRISTIANS BETTER PREPARED FOR ALIEN FIRST CONTACT THAN MATERIALIST SCIENTISTS!”

Now that I have your attention, let me continue in a slightly more serious vein and offer you some evidence for the statement above.

What sparked this was the song, “Be Still” by the band Storyside:B. Follow the link, listen to the Youtube and then come back here:

"Be Still" by Storyside:B (with lyrics) - YouTube

The chorus reiterates over and over that “we are not alone”.

*ninety degree turn*

World-class astronomer, space popularizer and the author of the book that became the movie, CONTACT, believed in his heart of hearts and “…spent [his life] trying to establish links between strange phenomena and the existence of life in outer space…Carl Sagan theorized that alien life such as bacteria exist not only in our planet but throughout the universe. He also insisted that it is impossible that no other intelligent life exists in the universe other than on Earth.” http://www.buzzle.com/articles/aliens-are-there-aliens.html (

I note that this statement is not a direct quote as I could not find out when or where it originated. Many websites repeat this statement.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan. Based on some 138 quotes attributed to Carl Sagan’s writings (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10538.Carl_Sagan), I think it is safe to say that he was a materialist. Materialism is a position that believes that all things that are real have a material or physical substance. It discounts any metaphysical reality. www.postmodernpsychology.com/Postmodernism_Dictionary.html

Yet it's clear that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that life exists off of Earth. Believe me when I say that I would be the first person in line to see incontrovertible evidence that "we are not alone." Really. I've been dreaming of aliens since I read THE SPACESHIP UNDER THE APPLE TREE by Louis Slobodkin in sixth grade.

Yet, many scientists do not hesitate to say that they “believe” that there is such life. You can get a degree in a completely IMAGINARY science called "Astrobiology" from places like Pennsylvania State University and Harvard -- both of which are "Ivy League Colleges", which typically don't grant degrees in imaginary disciplines. Why is it imaginary? Because for your typical astrobiologist -- there is NOTHING TO STUDY (except countless theories and speculation that "those things in Martian Meteorite AH 84001" -- which currently half of the scientists believe are fossilized signs of life; the other half believing that they are the fossilized remains of a chemical reaction...)

 (I submit that based on their previous track record of non-belief in the unseeable and an inability to accept anything that does not have physical substance, that scientific materialists are intellectually, culturally, and spiritually UNPREPARED to believe in alien life and will be poor choices for First Contact.

People of faith, on the other hand, have plenty of experience with the belief that Humans are NOT alone in the universe. I cannot speak with authority for any faith other than Christian, but I've learned that Hebrews 12:1 says: “...we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us…” Romans 8:38 also hints at the belief that we are not alone in the universe: “For I am convinced that neither…angels, nor principalities…nor powers…will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

People of deep faith KNOW that they are not alone in the universe. We have contemplated it, believed it, lived it, prayed it and for us, “others out there” is a matter not only of faith, but of incontrovertible, EVERY DAY fact.

Materialist scientists can only IMAGINE really, really hard that there is life in the universe -- whether single cells someplace other than on Earth; and hope really hard that there is intelligent life in the universe and hope that it’s possible that their imagination is factual.

Who would you rather have talking to the Klingons the first time – someone who has always known that that they were not alone and spoken regularly and intelligently with some "Other" who is not Human?

Or would you like someone who just found out that their imagination wasn’t anywhere near weird enough and are now tongue-tied or babbling incoherently as the Other is suddenly standing in front of them?

image: https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1362550341/photo/alien-and-man-meet-and-handshake-on-planet.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=is&k=20&c=ww-nweT_wvRGzJKNWNIBGUZVIRXiFXiG1uFSHLYJjT4=