[Questioner] A question from a fellow X-Files fan out there.
Do you think there are extraterrestrials in the universe
and God allowing human beings on earth? [Craig] You know I don't know if there are
extraterrestrials.
I'm very open to this. I think that the Bible is given to us human beings here
on earth to tell us about the plan of salvation for us but if there are
extraterrestrials that God has created elsewhere in the cosmos I'm sure that he
has a plan for their lives as well and loves them. And I just don't know. So
I'm completely open to the evidence.
What I will say is this is that on naturalism, on atheism,
we're probably alone. Evolutionary biologists agree that the evolution of
intelligent carbon-based life of comparable complexity with Homo sapiens
is so improbable that it probably doesn't exist anywhere else in the known
cosmos.
So again the best hope for their being extraterrestrials is theism because God
could create them and and bring them into being but on naturalism at least it
seems that there probably are none - that we're alone.