Author Gary Bates [Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection – I have read this book and highly recommend it] speaks about Mitchell’s fascination with the New Age.
This is an important article looking through a biblical lens, a must read for those of us who are trying to understand this phenomena from a Christian view point. What Gary writes is biblically supported first and foremost.
So what are we to think?
It should be remembered that everyone who can reason will develop a worldview, and most people’s worldviews are underpinned by where they think they came from. I.e. if one thinks that God is Creator then it is likely that person will view the world and their existence with a Bible-centered worldview. However, if one believes that all life on Earth is the result of the chance random processes of evolution, then that belief system is applied to observations made in the universe around them. So if you believe that life evolved on Earth by chance then you would probably believe it possible, even likely, that life also evolved elsewhere in this incredibly enormous universe. As I showed time and again in my book Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection, this pre-belief in extraterrestrial life is the dominant factor in people’s perceptions of what unidentified flying objects (UFOs) really are. In most cases, strange lights and objects are seen and interpreted as alien craft due to their beliefs in evolution combined with the modern cultural conditioning that the majority of population has received from the media, which has an obsession with extraterrestrial life (see also Evolution and the science of fiction).
NASA astronaut Ed Mitchell says aliens are with us.
Further, Gary Bates doesn’t write of UFO/Alien experiences, but asks an important question…
The question then remains, what are they? I do believe that there is something sinister about many such events. These sightings often display supernatural characteristics rather than natural ones, and our only reliable source of information about the supernatural realm is the Bible. Mitchell’s forays into the occult and New Age are certainly consistent with the associations of many such UFO-alien enthusiasts.
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