{"id":43718,"date":"2014-07-21T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/sinners-in-spaaaaaaaaace.html"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:08:47","slug":"sinners-in-spaaaaaaaaace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/sinners-in-spaaaaaaaaace.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinners! In! SPAAAAAAAAACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ken Ham, prominent Creationist, is pretty certain that extra-terrestrial aliens don't exist. After all …<\/p>\n

(a) God specifically created Earth and humanity, thus there's no need for think that similar forces would do the same thing elsewhere.<\/p>\n

(b) Adam's Fall affected the entire universe (which is why it's such a mean place), and Jesus only appeared once and for all here on Earth to offer salvation (because that's what the Bible says), thus extraterrestrial aliens could not possible be saved because they don't know Jesus, thus all of them would be going to Hell, and why would God do that?<\/p>\n

Well, great, now that that's settled we can shut down SETI and most of the space program and save a little money. Thanks, Ken!<\/p>\n

(I have to say that the thing I am now most looking forward to from contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, should such a thing happen, is not the technology boost or anything like that, but watching Ken Ham's head 'splode.)\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ken Ham, prominent Creationist, is pretty certain that extra-terrestrial aliens don't exist. After all … (a) God specifically created Earth and humanity, thus there's no need for think that similar forces would do the same thing elsewhere. (b) Adam's Fall affected the entire universe (which is why it's such a mean place), and Jesus only … Continue reading “Sinners! In! 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