Enjoyed the interview last night on the Skywatchers podcast show. A fun time discussing Christianity and ET life, Majestic documents, and ancient astronaut mythology. This was my first time on this show.
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Will Religious Beliefs Hinder First Contact?
That's the opinion of this scholarly (but ill-informed) article: Gabriel de La Torre, "Toward a new cosmic consciousness: Psychoeducational aspects of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations," Acta Astronautica 94:2 (2014): 577-583. Why do I say ill-informed? The...
Ancient Astronaut Nonsense as an Interpretive Filter for the Bible
Jason Colavito has once again directed the attention of his readers to how people in Christian churches have begun to tout the ancient astronaut paradigm as a tool for understanding the Bible. His post draws on the thoughts of a Lutheran pastor over at the well-known...
Nick Redfern Final Events Lecture Online
Readers may recall that I reviewed Nick Redfern's book, Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife on this blog back in 2010. Nick has posted a lecture on the book and its content here. Having heard Nick lecture before, I'd...
ET Life and Recent God Talk
[Update / Addendum 10/11/2011 - see the third paragraph.] I'm betting those of you who lurk on this blog have seen the recent spate (or is it semi-mindless repetition) of news stories about the impact an intelligent extraterrestrial reality would have on religion,...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 3
To review (again) the purpose of this thread, I suggested at the outset that there were four aspects to the Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are...
Recent Discussion On ET Life and Implications for Christian Theology
I'm swallowing hard in posting this since the conversation includes Paul Davies, whom I have suggested should be kept as far away from theological discussion as possible. But, he's balanced by John Lennox, who should know something about Christianity since the...
Eastern Orthodoxy and ET Life
I came across this interesting article: "An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Microbial Life on Mars" (Theology and Science 6:4, 2008). I'm not Eastern Orthodox, but I think this paragraph in the article's conclusion is well written and well-reasoned: To be sure, there...
Followup Interview On My Roswell Christian UFO Symposium Topic
I recently was interview by Mike Bennett. Mike hosts the FutureQuake radio show, which airs in radio prime time (home commute) in Nashville on WENO, AM 760 in Nashville, TN. It's the only Christian radio show that is not restricted to the internet that I've ever been...
Thoughts on my Roswell Trip
What can you say about a trip to the UFO festival in Roswell? A little weird, a little informative, a little depressing (with respect to how ET has become a religion to many). Overall, though, very worthwhile. I enjoy meeting interesting people and catching up with...
The Astrobiological Delusion Regarding the Future of Religion
Nice, brief article by professor Ted Peters. Editor's note: including the content of the above link below,From Theology Topic: The Astrobiological Delusion Regarding the Future of Religion: The Astrobiological Delusion Regarding the Future of Religion Returning to...
Ancient Astronauts as a Religion
Readers will find this recent (2007) scholarly article on "Paleo-SETI" / ancient astronaut beliefs of interest. Such articles are not common in academic circles. It's 25 pages. The first half overviews the beliefs of major ancient writers (mostly von Daniken), which...
ET Life Bigger than Jesus?
That is the gist of this blog post from Greg Bishop. Follow the link to his post, which leads to a news article about how more people in the UK say they believe in ETs / aliens and "the supernatural" than God. This isn't news to anyone who follows the intersection of...
Back from My Annual Conferences
Just a heads up. Tonight I plan to post the rest of the Psychological Inquiry articles for readers, just so everyone has the set. I'm going to be moving on to more specific peer-reviewed articles dealing with religion and ETs. For starters, at the conference I was at...
Getting Re-Kickstarted with a Bang
If you're following this blog you may have had two recent thoughts: (1) Mike's time is being spent more on replying to comments than blogging; and (2) the comments are drifting away from the UFO theme. Agree on both counts. Now for the remedy. One of the stated goals...