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Q&A: On God and Aliens

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On God and Aliens

Question

In The First Existent, in the fifth chapter dealing with revelation, you wrote that since God apparently exists, then when we receive testimony about His revelation to us we should not dismiss it out of hand, but rather examine the strength of the testimony. 
To the best of my knowledge, many fine scientists believe that there is life outside our planet, which we simply have not encountered yet.
A. Do you think it is reasonable that there is life outside our planet? What would that mean regarding the claim about God’s existence based on the formation of the first cell?
B. In light of this, when we hear tens of thousands (!) of independent testimonies from people who claim that aliens abducted them and returned them / or just saw aliens, and given that we know it is plausible that aliens exist, should we believe them, since there is no significant reason to claim otherwise? (There is no reason to claim they are all hallucinating if these are many testimonies from normal people who have no interest in appearing crazy, if we know it is plausible that aliens exist—just as there is no reason to claim that the tradition about Mount Sinai developed gradually at the end of the First Temple period, since we are talking about large numbers of people and we know it is highly plausible that God exists.)
Thank you in advance!

Answer

A. I did not understand the connection to the introduction. Here I have no indication, only mere speculation. I have no idea whether or not there is life outside planet Earth.
B. Same here. Many of these cases were later shown to be hallucinations and various mistakes.

Discussion on Answer

Implication of the Spirit of the Times (2024-08-23)

B. Even if that’s true, how do you know that we’re talking specifically about aliens?

. (2024-08-23)

Rabbi, do you think there is a high chance of life forming outside Earth as a result of “infinite” tosses (there are lots of stars)?

Michi (2024-08-23)

I don’t know

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