Little green men revisited

A few weeks ago I posted about the Vatican's statement that the idea of little green men did not stand contrary to the Bible. I don't know if you've given it any thought, but the headlines of the last few days bring it back to light.

• "Life on Mars?" queried the headline on the Drudge Report in bigger font than I've ever seen.
• "In search of life," hailed FoxNews.
• Then there's the guy who had incontrovertible proof through a homemade video that aliens exist. I think the real alien was behind the camera.
  

What is the purpose of the Phoenix Mars Lander (PML), NASA's latest expedition? The headlines seem to think it's a search for Gazoo. A careful examination of the University of Arizona's goals along with NASA's objectives confirms that apart some other scientific inquiries about the Red Planet, the search is in fact for ET life.

Here we go again; so what?

I'll be right up front; the theory of biological life outside the boundaries of our earth gets tangled in some fundamental biblical principles. Here are some of the issues:

1. Exodus 20:8-11 declares that everything within the Creation was created during those first six days. As such, if alien life did exist, God created them at that time. Were life to come about by evolution, the odds of it occurring at all in the universe are as close to zero as you can get. It would be more absurd that hitting 1,000,000 consecutive slot machines. The fact that life is present here would not diminish the statistical impossibility of it being anywhere else.
   
2. Man's sin brought death and destruction into the cosmos (Romans 8:20-22). Death is not natural; it is a consequence of sin (this is why life evolving from non-life runs counter to the Bible). If alien life exists on a planet orbiting Seti Alpha 3, the decay of the creation would extend to their corner of the universe, too. They would have death imposed upon them unrighteously. Humanity was justly under condemnation for its own sin. It would have beeen unjust for God to punish Klingons who had done no wrong (Kitamer notwithstanding).
3. God the Son, Jesus Christ, was bodily raised. Christ was never un-incarnated. It is precisely because He was fully man that He could die as substitute for all mankind. Were the Wookies to defy God's law, how would God provide for their atonement?
4. Could what we perceive to be alien apparitions (something of which the Bible does not speak) really be spiritual apparitions (something of which the Bible does speak...at length)?

Can I know absolutely that there is no biological life outside our atmosphere? No, but it is as close to a statistical impossibility that you can get. Marry that with what the Bible says about man, death, God's justice, and Christ's atonement, I think we can dismiss the possibility of running into any Cardasian warbirds the next time we head out to Saturn.

Photo from starwars.com