WHY THE REVAMPING AND ADDITIONS TO THIS OLD POST ?
INTRODUCTION
All this being said, I sometimes feel like the guy explaining stuff in this funny meme:
At the end of this post I will include the entire “Privileged Planet” documentary… it will expand the thinking of just how improbable another planet exists that can support life. As well as other media.
UFO POST REVAMPED
(Originally posted July of 2018)
Excellent two part video series by God and Science:
– the author of these videos id Richard Deem –
2nd Video Will Follow In A Bit….
DRAKE’S EQUATION
Here are three articles about an OXFORD study using Drake’s Equation:
Drake’s work can be expressed thus: N = R ∗ fp ∗ ne∗ fl ∗ fi ∗ fc ∗ L
- R* = How frequently are suns born whose light could conceivably sustain intelligent life?
- fp = What fraction of those stars have planets?
- ne = How many of those planets, per solar system, have environments suitable for life?
- fl = What fraction of those planets actually host life?
- fi = What fraction of those life-bearing planets have intelligent life?
- fc = What fraction of those intelligent civilizations broadcast detectable signals into space?
- L = How long do those civilizations broadcast detectable signals into space?
GREG GUTFELD CHIMES IN
3 ARTICLES
Here is the first article via Michael Guillen at FOX NEWS:
The other is from COSMOS:
And the NEW YORK POST wrote on the OXFORD study as well:
So What Of Alien Abductions?
So, after years of reading books and studying eyewitness encounters and watching TV specials on spirit mediums, alien abductions, past lives, the occult, new age, automatic writing, altered states of consciousness, and hauntings (and more)… the messages and encounters in all these different mediums have a common thread. And since my worldview is informed by the Judeo-Christian God and Scripture… I can come to only one conclusion…. which follows:
Here is that promised 2nd video:
(This post is tied to a similar discussion of Ghost)
Please keep in mind this documentary was made in the 80’s. It has spooky music and is very much dated… the “disclaimer” below it applies as well. All that said, there are some great points made that are still relevant, and most importantly, true.
While this documentary is dated, the DVD for purchase (I did edit it a bit), and HERE.
Two decent articles on the issue of UFOs and the Christian worldview, are as follows:
And the best books on the subject are by William Alnor!
- UFO’s in the New Age: Extraterrestrial Messages and the Truth of Scripture
- UFO Cults and the New Millennium
Another great book, and a quick read, is Ron Rhodes book,
A note from my Facebook about this and my other post:
Related Bibliography
Christian
- Testing the Spirits, by Elizebeth L. Hillstrom
- The Culting of America, by Ron Rhodes (especially chapter 12)
- Alien Obsession: What Lies Behind Abductions, Sightings, and the Attraction to the Paranormal, by Ron Rhodes
- Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religioons and the Occult, by Mather and Nichols
- Occult Invasion: The Subtle Seduction of the World & the Church, by Dave Hunt
- Biblical Demonology: A Study of Spiritual Forces at Work Today, by Merrill F. Unger
- Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, by Ankerberg and Weldon
- The Facts on the New Age Movement, Ankerberg and Weldon
- Occult ABC, by Kurt Koch
- Christian Counseling & Occultism, by Kurt Koch
- Occult Bondage and Deliverance, by Kurt Koch
- Demonology, Past & Present, by Kurt Koch
- Handbook of Today’s Religions, by McDowell and Stewart
- The Occult Shock and Psychic Forces, Wilson and Weldon
- Cults: And the Occult, by Edmond Gruss
- The Ouija Board: A Doorway to the Occult, by Edmund Gruss
- Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game, by Stoker Hunt
- The Beautiful Side of Evil, by Johanna Michaelsen
- The Occult Roots of Nazism, by Nicholas Goodrick
- Witchcraft: Exploring the World of Wicca, by Craig Hawkins
- UFO’s and the Alien Agenda: Uncovering the Mystery Behind UFO’s and the Paranormal, by Bob Larson
- Encounters with UFO’s, by Weldon and Levitt
- UFOs in the New Age: Extraterrestrial Messages & the Truth of Scripture, by William Alnor
- UFO Cults & the New Millennium, by William Alnor
- Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon, by Missler and Eastman
- The New Age Cult, by Walter Martin
- Beware! Deception & Delusion in the Church, by Bill Rudge
Non Christian
- Communion: A True Story: Encounters with the Unknown, by Whitley Strieber
- The Unexplained, by Allen Spraggett
- Mediums, Mystics and the Occult, by Milbourne Christopher
- Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters, by Leslie Rule
- Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, by Thomas B. Allen
- Thirty Years Among the Dead: Historic Studies in Spiritualism; A Psychiatrist’s Investigation of Spirit Mediums and Psychic Possession in his Patients, by Carl August Wickland
- Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1, by Neale Donald Walsch
- A Course in Miracles, by Helen Schucman
- The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves, “Multiple” authors
PRIVILEGED PLANET
Video Description
PRIVILEGED LIFE
This is an old podcast of Dr. Norman Geisler discussing ex-atheist Antony Flew’s book that detailed his leaving atheism. Here is a “Flewism”
- “My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato’s Socrates: Follow the evidence, wherever it leads.” After chewing on his scientific worldview for more than five decades, Flew concluded, “A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature.” Previously, in his central work, The Presumption of Atheism (1976), Flew argued that the “onus of proof [of God] must lie upon the theist.” However, at the age of 81, Flew shocked the world when he renounced his atheism because “the argument for Intelligent Design is enormously stronger than it was when I first met it.” (See my DNA post: RNA/DNA = Information | Or, What “IS” Information)
Flew’s God was: immutable, immaterial, omnipotent, omniscient, whole [one, or indivisible, perfectly good and necessary exists].
I call Dr. Flew the long-time “Pope of atheism.” He was the “go-to” guy… until his move to deism in 2004. He was a British philosopher belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he is notable for his works on the philosophy of religion. Flew was a strong advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until evidence of a God surfaces. He has also criticised the idea of life after death, the free will defense to the problem of evil, and the meaningfulness of the concept of God. However, in 2004 he stated an allegiance to deism, and later wrote the book There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, with contributions from Roy Abraham Varghese. Dr. Flew’s God sounded a lot like the theistic God apologist Dr. William Lane Craig describes:
Here is another video explaining the impossibility of life even in the time allotted by evolution (video description to follow):
This is a combining of two videos into one to strengthen the points made in them… as well as to preserve them for future use.
- FIRST VIDEO [split in two]: “Stephen Meyer Critiques Richard Dawkins’s ‘Mount Improbable’ Illustration” (YouTube)
- SECOND VIDEO [tucked between the above]: “Origin: Probability of a Single Protein Forming by Chance” (YouTube)
Other posts related to this on my site:
- Not Enough Evolutionary Time For Simple Life (RPT)
- RNA/DNA < Information | Or, What “IS” Information (RPT)
- The Two Books of Faith – Nature and Revelatory (50+ Evidences) (RPT)
ETC – ETC