Short answer: No. But to read the click-bait headlines circulating on the internet in the last couple of days, you’d think so. All you need to do is read NASA’s own announcement — just the first paragraph: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new...
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Have You Subscribed to FringePop321 Yet?
If not, you need to. Really. FringePop321 is a YouTube channel. I’m the host. Every week we release a new video of me trying to inject some sanity into a fringe topic — paleobabble, fringe archaeology, ancient aliens, paranormal topics, etc. Just go to the...
RH Negative Blood: Alien-Nephilim-Hybrid Nonsense
A couple months ago my PEERANORMAL Podcast focused on this modern myth. Here’s a pretty thorough-but-readable essay on the RH nephilim silliness. It’s very informative. I guess at a time when people are willing to believe the earth is actually flat and all...
Will the Confirmation of Water on Europa Lead to Panspermia Non-Sequiturs?
You bet it will. People will erroneously conclude that water on Europa means there was or is life on Europa. Maybe … maybe not. They’ll say it invalidates a biblical creator (uh … why?) and all sorts of other points of theology. It wouldn’t....
The FBI, the Science Fiction Writer, and the ET Hypothesis for Flying Saucers
Jason Colavito has written a fascinating post entitled, “Documents Detail the FBI’s Theory That Science Fiction Editor Ray Palmer Helped Create the Flying Saucer Myth.” It’s well worth your time. No one would deny that, in the mid-20th century,...
Five Mysterious Unidentified Radio Signals: Is ET Calling?
An interesting article from the UK Express about indeterminate signals from space. Enjoy!
The Fermi Paradox Made Simple and Cool
Here you go – well worth a watch. Hat tip to Mr. Tudor for this. Remember this the next time someone starts talking about the likelihood of alien contact.
The Science and Pseudo-Science of Extraterrestrial Communication
That’s the gist of this interesting and informative episode of Exposing PseudoAstronomy. Here’s the episode’s abstract: Linguist, Dr. Karen Stollznow, discusses some of the communication problems on our own planet and how that translates to the huge...
Heiser Interview on SkyWatchers
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.
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...
How Scientists Could Be Fooled Into Thinking They’ve Found Extraterrestrial Life
That’s the title of an interesting and appropriately cautionary essay by George Dvorsky. He also wrote a piece entitled “14 Intriguing Ways We Could Detect Signs Of An Alien Civilization.” Here’s another article on how scientists could also...
Space Science: New Book on the Quest to Discover ET Life and the UFO Issue
This forthcoming book by Antonio Paris looks promising: Space Science: Challenges for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis of UFO Phenomenon. The link says that the book will “addresses what the UFO community conveniently fails to address.” For what those...
Theology, Politics, and Astrobiology
It’s been nearly two weeks since I attended the annual scholarly society meetings for scholars in my field of study and interest: the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), the Near East Archaeological Society (NEAS), the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR),...
Is Speculation Science?
It is when it’s about the search for extraterrestrial life and panspermia. In yet another example of just this, I’d invite you all to read “Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy.” Have any of these planets actually been identified?...
Red Rain of Kerala, India and Panspermia
Is the red rain phenomena of Kerala, India, proof of extraterrestrial life? Does it contain ET DNA? Does it demonstrate a panspermia mechanism? The answers, in order, are: no, no, and no. The red rain issue seems to come up a lot. I want to use it as an example of how...