Solar speculation: Planet news meets profs' biblical worldview
Bill Nettles, chair of Union's physics department, told Baptist Press the "excitement" among some scientists "over the possibility of extra-terrestrial life simply confirms" a longstanding assumption that "surely life must exist somewhere in the universe." That assumption "has been a theme of writers for centuries, and we shouldn't expect it to wane."
Yet "for Christians, there is already a hope that there is life elsewhere, but we don't need to find it in some other planet," Nettles said in written comments. "It is found in the promises of God, revealed in the human-divine person of Jesus of Nazareth."
The discovery of "other planets around other stars should be no more surprising to us today than the discovery of rocky planets in our own solar system centuries ago," Nettles said. "The Bible begins with the creation of the heavens and earth. These discoveries do not dispute that."...