Do aliens exist? If they did, would that affect Christianity?

Ryan Pauly
Ryan Pauly teaches Historical Christian Doctrine and Apologetics, Comparative Religions and Worldviews, and Philosophy of Ethics at a Southern California High School. He is also the training coordinator for the MAVEN immersive experiences and is a Stand to Reason affiliate. He holds a Master's degree in Christian apologetics from Biola University and a certificate in science apologetics from the Reasons Institute. Ryan discusses a wide range of apologetics and cultural issues relating to students through writing, videos, speaking, podcast, and radio.
August 23, 2020 at 8:08 pm
In the beginning of your video on aliens, you say that the chance of Darwinian evolution is highly unlikely and if it were to happen twice that would support design. Did you mean this as a way of saying Darwinian evolution is flat out unlikely so aliens would’ve been place in the universe as humans were? Or are you saying we came about from Darwinian evolution along with aliens?
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August 23, 2020 at 8:08 pm
In the beginning of your video on aliens, you say that the chance of Darwinian evolution is highly unlikely and if it were to happen twice that would support design. Did you mean this as a way of saying Darwinian evolution is flat out unlikely so aliens would’ve been place in the universe as humans were? Or are you saying we came about from Darwinian evolution along with aliens?
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August 25, 2020 at 11:28 am
I do not hold to Darwinian evolution. It is very unlikely that it is true. My point is that if aliens exist, evolution becomes even more unreasonable, not more reasonable. If aliens exist, that is more evidence for an intelligent creator. Does that help clarify my point?
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