Silence of the Space Aliens and Dimming Hopes
Today is the anniversary of the first human in space, the Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin on an orbit of Earth that lasted 108 minutes. Nikita Khrushchev did not know that Yuri was secretly a Christian living in that atheistic regime.
The space aliens are still screaming silence. Secularists are sure of abiogenesis somewhere, sometime, so alien civilizations must have evolved. These scientists are offering speculations that smack of desperation, even saying that a null result still shows hope. (No, Skippy, it shows nothing.) If a bacterium was found on Mars, these jaspers would be ecstatic, but they would have to prove that it was native to Mars. Believing in evolution with blind faith, they deny the Creator of Earth, humanity, and everything else and believe in their invisible friends. It's time to throw away the materialism glasses and see the truth.
While there was science and technology involved, the flight had goals that were primarily for military and propaganda value. Of course, the USSR believed in evolution, but they were probably not concerned with finding extraterrestrial life — certainly not like obsessive secularists later.
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| Cranky Alien image furnished by Why?Outreach |
Silence can be data. The lack of alien signals or confirmed signs of life on planets and moons says something. Are we alone? It’s impossible to know without checking everywhere in the universe, but astrobiologists and SETI advocates know that, statistically, there should have been some indications of life by now in the places we have checked. Here are some reactions from the believers clinging to hope in the face of discouraging evidence.
What follows are several reports that show fading hopes, lack of reason, and desperation among believers in extraterrestrials. To see it, lift off for "Hoping in Vain for Alien Life."