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with its millions of galaxies and billions of stars, there must be other inhabited planets out there — we just haven’t found them yet. Popular science fiction films have only added to these expectations. In order to look for other earthlike planets, on March 7th 2009 NASA launched the Kepler spacecraftAccording to NASA’s special Kepler website, its task is to search for “terrestrial planets (i.e., those one half to twice the size of the Earth), especially those in the habitable zone of their stars where liquid water and possibly life might exist.” It is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way “to determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.”
However, the search for extraterrestrial life is based on several false assumptions and unproven theories about the origin of life and its supposed evolution.

Getting the message
THE SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) programme was set up in 1984. According to its website: “The Mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. We believe we are conducting the most profound search in human history — to know our beginnings and our place among the stars.” SETI’s main activity is to scan the heavens for non-random signals using powerful radio-telescopes. There is a good deal of “noise” coming from outer space, but it is random and meaningless. If a non-random, coded sequence were detected it would be seen as evidence that someone out there was trying to make contact. In 1999 the SETI@home project was launched which allowed people to join the search using their home computers. Over 5 million people worldwide are now involved in this, as yet, unfruitful search. Science fiction films often depict aliens as being hostile — even though they usually speak American English! In H.G. Wells classic story War of the Worlds, it was Martians who were out to get us. Modern movies like Independence Day have a similar theme. SETI has been running for 25 years, without finding any evidence that intelligent aliens exist. Still, many live in hope. Astronomer Seth Shostak says he expects to get a conclusive signal and proof of alien contact between 2020 and 2025. The search for E.T. has even spawned a new “science” called astrobiology. Yet the argument that “there must be other inhabited worlds out there” is based on wishful thinking rather than sound scientific principles. So far we only have evidence for the existence of one inhabited world — our own!

Although the planet Mars now seems to be a barren, icy desert, there is evidence that water flowed there in the past, and in 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander discovered evidence that there is liquid water there now. Searchers for E. T. life are quite excited about this, because water is essential for life as we know it, and finding it raises their hopes that some kind of life may exist there. However, they are making several false assumptions: Firstly, that believe that life on earth began in the sea, although there is no evidence for this. Secondly, they assume that, given the right conditions, life will spontaneously evolve from non-living matter

— but there is no evidence for this, either. In fact, secular scientists still can’t explain how life on earth began – it’s still a mystery to them. True, observable science tells us that life only comes from life.they are making the assumption that life will arise from non-living matter if conditions are right, and this is a false assumption. Even if Mars (or any other planet) had oceans of waterit would not mean we should expect to find life, since no-one has ever been able to demonstrate that life can come from non-life. The origin of life on earth remains a total mystery to people who reject a supernatural creation. (1) E. T. searchers are also interested in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which has a diameter of 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles), iand is even larger than the planet Mercury. The temperature of Titan's surface is –179 degrees C (–290 degrees F), too cold for liquid water, but it has an atmosphere. Titan has been described as an “earth in cold storage”, with the suggestion that, if it warmed up in the future, life would emerge. Once again, we see the false assumption that life will simply “emerge” if conditions are right, which flies in the face of true, observable science. E. T. searchers are really pinning their hopes on, as yet, undiscovered planets in other parts of our galaxy, or even in other galaxies. But their hopes are still based on the same unprovable assumptions about how life begins.
(1). See “Origin of Life Mystery”, Original View No. 49.

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There is someone there! Not E. T., but God the Creator, who visited this planet in the Person of Jesus Christ, and who desires a relationship with each one of us.