How Justen Faull’s “Bombshell” Document 6751 Fails Under Scrutiny

Justen Faull and his brother have been rising stars within SkywatchTV, the Christian UFO community’s own version of the Weekly World News, and is endorsed by no less than SkywatchTV’s CEO and founder, Tom Horn. Justen Faull fully endorses the reality of the Collins Elite, an alleged sect within the US government who objects to…

Are Millions of Americans Being Abducted by Aliens?

In the trailer for the film version of the Amazon bestseller, Alien Intrusion, author Gary Bates notes that the 2002 “Roper Poll concluded that up to 4 million Americans have been abducted by aliens.” On the Alien Intrusion Film’s website, we find the same claim: “[O]ne poll concluded that up to 20 million Americans had seen a UFO…

Why ET Probably Doesn’t Need To Be Saved Anyway

By and large, Biblical creationists are anti-alien and they think the Bible forbids the existence of extraterrestrials. I blame Gary Bates. Gary Bates is the CEO of Creation Ministries International and, more importantly, the author of the best-selling book, Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection. While there were anti-alien articles around before his book…

In Which Gary Bates Responds To My Post About Aliens and the Bible

Gary Bates, CEO of Creation Ministries International and the author of the best-selling book Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection, has responded to my previous post, Gary Bates Thinks ET Could Potentially Falsify The Bible. Predictably , he has taken objection to it and to an earlier post refuting his anti-alien arguments called Why ET Probably Doesn’t Need To…

Do FBI Files Confirm The Extradimensional UFO Hypothesis?

No. No they do not. When articles like this one and this one make the claim that recently released FBI files confirm that the government knows the UFO phenomenon is extradimensional in nature, they are referring to a single file: the now-infamous Page 22 of the FBI’s FOIA Vault files aka “Document 6751.” I was…

Why Christianity would survive the discovery of aliens

An article by Santhosh Matthew over at the Guardian caught my eye today. It was titled “The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?” “Contact with intelligent life elsewhere in the universe will present theological and philosophical conundrums that many religions will find deeply challenging. This is especially true for…

Strangers and Aliens Gets Some Love

It’s a bit frustrating sometimes when your book is apparently The Most Hated Book in Creationism… especially when no one particularly engages the arguments in said book and resorts to insults and appeals to authority instead. Truth isn’t always well-received. Still, I’m not exactly looking to be an exotheological martyr so I was pleasantly surprised to…