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Transcript 226A — The Question of UFO's
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: Good evening, Mr. Camping. I have a question with relationship to UFO's. It's pretty much accepted that there is something there. But as to exactly what it is, maybe no one knows. But it seems that there is something there. I was wondering if you could possibly relate UFO's to the Bible.
HC: All right. I'll try. The question that is raised is concerning UFO's. The observation is made that there seems to be plenty of evidence that there is really something there. Does the Bible have anything to say about this?
First of all, let's try to decide, why are people so interested in UFO's? You see, UFO's are a product of the world in which we live. We live in a world that is fundamentally convinced that the beginning of this earth and the universe was through an evolutionary process. You can pick up almost any piece of scientific literature that deals with the beginning of the world, or the nature of the world, and it will take as a fact, it will assume as a fact the idea of evolution.
It's really amazing, when you read some of the scientific journals and discover this to be so. There's not even a suggestion of a creative process or of the fact that there was a God who created it all. Now of course the reason for assuming evolution to be a fact is that man intuitively does not want to face the idea of a God who will judge him, because he knows deep in his heart that there is a Judgment Day. He knows there is a God. But if he can somehow convince himself that there is no Creator, that this world all came into being by itself, over the last eons of time, then somehow, if there is a God, He's so far removed from this creation there's nothing to worry about.
More than that, if this world has been around for millions of years, then it is probably true that it will be around for more millions years. And this means that if there is a Judgment Day, it's way beyond anything that we will ever have to worry about. All of this is subconscious, but nevertheless it is there.
Now because of the evolutionary idea (and it's firmly imbedded into all of our scientific literature), mankind has become convinced that if this sun, which is our sun, with its 9 planets rotating around it, had nine planets, then amongst the billions upon billions of stars that are found in deep space, which appear to be suns just like our sun, you would think that many many of them would also have evolved with planets revolving around them. That certainly is logical, isn't it? If our sun evolved with nine planets revolving around it, then certainly these other billions of stars to a high degree would have planets revolving around them.
Now of the nine planets revolving around the sun, if one of them evolved in such a way that it was able to support life, and actually became an environment that fostered life, so that we have our present life situation on this earth if that occurred to this planet, in our solar system, then the odds are very very great that the same thing could have happened again and again and again our in deep space, amongst the other suns that are in deep space.
And so it is therefore entirely logical to believe that there must be life out there. It is absolutely logical that there is life out there, if we can believe that our earth evolved, through a process of evolution, by blind chance, which incidentally is the most fantastic idea that man could ever concoct, because it is so far from the truth. But that's another matter.
And this, incidentally, is why so much money is spent, or at least one of the main reasons why so much money is spent, to go to the moon, and to send space probes out to Mars, and so on. Man is desperately trying to prove what he believes is a fact, that there is life out there. The interesting thing is that with all of the millions and millions of dollars that have been spent they haven't found the slightest suggestion of life in deep space, neither on the moon nor on Mars nor any other place. There just is none.
Now when you have a philosophical climate that assumes, as a fact, that there is life out there, then you've got a very fertile environment in which to see UFO's. And this comes to the second aspect of UFO's. You see, man's mind is very tricky. If you go into a circus and go to the side show, and you watch a magician, you believe you see certain things, because your mind has been guided to make you believe that you're seeing certain things. Now you didn't really see certain things that you thought you saw. But your mind tells you that you did see them. This is of course the whole foundation of the magician. We think we see something, but we're not seeing quite what we think we see. Our minds are very tricky. We can be deceived very easily.
And so when we establish a climate, when we develop a climate where all kinds of people are convinced that there are people in outer space somewhere, and all of the Buck Rogers, Space Patrol, and novels, etc. all add to this kind of idea, pretty soon it is easy for people to begin to see literal evidence of this. And this is where the UFO's come into play.
First of all, there is a lot of phenomena that has a natural explanation, such as marsh gas, or weather balloons, and so on and so on. But people viewing these things have become obsessed with the idea that there are people in outer space. And so their mind says, "I have seen an unidentified flying object.
More than that, even though they don't see anything, they can be convinced they saw something. Our minds are very tricky. If you believe in something long enough, pretty soon you're going to see it. Now for people who believe that there's life in outer space, when they read reports of a siting here or a siting there, all of this is giving them further conviction. They're more certain than ever that there are unidentified flying objects. And so they are more and more ready to see one at a moment's notice. And indeed, before long they will. They may even see it with little green men, and they may even have an experience of going aboard one of the UFO's.
I think that a lot of these reports where we read that someone has seen little green figures, or has gone aboard a UFO, or whatever, are from people who really believe that they really had this experience, that they really did see these little green figures, or whatever they may be. So tricky is our mind.
And so the more there is written about it, the more convinced some become. Now the interesting thing is that when it comes to something really substantive, that is, where there is actually a UFO, which somebody can touch and which somebody can photograph, etc., these things never happen. It is always just barely there, just a little bit of evidence. "Oh, we saw something on a radar scope," or "We saw something here," or "We saw something there." But there is never anything that is really of flesh and blood variety, if you know what I mean. There's nothing that has real substance, because all of this is in the minds of men.
Now this, of course, offers a very fertile field for Satan to work, also. Satan is the great deceiver. And he of course is anxious to keep people from thinking about the Lord Jesus Christ, and thinking about the God of creation, from thinking about the Bible as being the final authority. And therefore, Satan can easily continue the deception and cause people to be more convinced than ever that they really have seen something.
Now the Bible of course teaches that the earth was created about 13,000 years ago. And the stars were created on the fourth day. So they can't be over 13,000 years old. The Bible teaches that one of the first things that's going to happen when Christ returns is that the stars will fall to the earth. The universe will begin to collapse.
There is no life out there at all, none whatsoever. It's all in man's mind, altogether. And if we place our trust firmly in the Bible, you're not going to see any UFO's, none at all. You can't possibly see a UFO, if your trust is in the Word of God, because you're not going to be deluded by your own mind. You're not going to be deluded by all the reports that you read.
Well, thank you for that good question.