I queried the article, stating that angels are intelligent life forms not native to Earth, so how could they have such a dogmatically resolute opinion over scripture disproving in the existence of extraterrestrials? After all, didn’t theologians also claim an absolute infallible knowledge at one time that the Earth had to be in the center of the universe, and that even considering the possibility that it wasn’t, was heretical?

Someone named Gary Bates emailed me back and he immediately attacked my credentials. Never mind reading my free books or checking out my website, which he said ‘No thanks’ to, to see if I have any valid points. I am not a seminary student, much less a PhD, and my books are ‘self-published,’ which he surmised with a smug comment. Then, after informing me that I was a victim of occult deception, ‘hook line and sinker,’ he pointed me in the direction of several of his articles on the Creationist website he wrote for. It wasn’t much of a sales pitch, needless to say, but I proceeded to read his main article refuting extraterrestrials anyway. If anything, I will come to a more full understanding of the typical Creationist response to the existence of extraterrestrial life.

His article, Did God Creation Life on Other Planets? (http://creation.com/did-god-create-life-on-other-planets) provides a list of theological points which claim to discredit the notion of extraterrestrial life on a theological basis. The first point is as follows:

Point 1: The Bible indicates that the whole creation groans and travails under the weight of sin (Romans 8:18–22). The effect of the Curse following Adam’s fall was universal. Otherwise what would be the point of God destroying this whole creation to make way for a new heavens and Earth—2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:1? Therefore, any ETs living elsewhere would have been (unjustly) affected by the Adamic Curse through no fault of their own—they would not have inherited Adam’s sin nature.

In response to this argument, I agree with scripture that the whole creation travails under the weight of sin, but the effects of sin that the whole creation must contend with, varies.

It is Satan who committed the first sin, and then he deceived a bunch of angels to sin along with him, all before he deceived Adam and Eve. Satan then entered the glorified Earth with his sin nature, and deceived Adam and Eve by lying to them. Sin, therefore, existed even in the Earth on a very limited scale, prior to Adam and Eve sinning. The sin of lying to Adam and Eve, therefore, had to exist within a special type of quarantine, because scripture says that as far as the Earth is concerned, death didn’t enter the world until man sinned, despite the fact that Satan sinned on the Earth prior to man sinning, (Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:21).

Romans 8:19-22 9 [bold emphasis added]

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Romans 5:14 [bold emphasis added]

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

1Corinthians 15:21-26 [bold emphasis added]

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

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