Really, though… who's to say that aliens don't exist?
God could perfectly well have created living beings on other planets without telling us about them.
I don't see why the idea of extraterrestrials is abhorrent to a lot of Christians. Admittedly, I may be missing something big about why, from a Biblical viewpoint, they shouldn't exist; if so, please elaborate, potential readers/commenters. I wanna get things straight, and if I'm super wide of the mark please correct me (book, chapter, and verse, please), but from my limited knowledge and experience, I find no Christian problem with the existence of aliens.
They might not even be biological creatures at all. What if they're like angels? Completely insensible by our material faculties, not able to be measures by the instruments we've got, but all the same, living, rational beings. They could be a completely different form of life than we're used to. Angels don't fully fit our neat little Criteria for Life (organization, maintenance of homeostasis, growth/development, energy processing, response to environment, and reproductive capabilities, if you're wondering… bad biology student, you), but God still recognizes them as living beings. He created them for life in a world different than the normal plane of human experience. What if aliens are like that?
Yeah, I may not have the most trustworthy say on such matters, but that's what I think, based on my beliefs and experiences. Yes, I think it's possible there are other creatures out there besides us Tellurians. I'm not saying there are for sure. But there could be, no? It's something to think about. Maybe even to write about.
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