Hello? ... Hello?

Answer: Yes.

Surrounding the throne room of God is a great deal of lively activity [1] [2] [3] [4]. We don't know
where this place is located, and even though it appears to be physical, we can not be completely
certain as to the degree it matches the physical world in which we live [5]. Nonetheless, it is real and
has been sensed by physical beings [6] [7].

If the theory of evolution were true, that is, if life arose naturally and spontaneously from non-living
material, then we would be assured that the same random processes would generate many other life
forms across our galaxy. In fact, Dr. Frank Drake, a co-founder of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence (SETI), promised we would find such evidence by the year 2000 [8]. His protégé at the
SETI Institute, Seth Shostak, has extended the guarantee out to the year 2025 [9]. It may surprise
people, but Ponders Baptist Church does not object to tax revenue allocated to SETI. The longer the
program continues, the more it becomes apparent to everyone that theories promoting the random
generation of life through unguided, natural mechanisms are false. We don't view SETI as nearly fifty
years of fruitless activity, but rather as that much accumulated data. So far, scientists have found no
sign of life within or without our solar system, except here at home where it exists in abundance.
Ponders Baptist Church is not dismayed by reports of water on other planets, or even the abundance
of complex, organic molecules in distant nebulae. All of these things suggest that intelligent life should
be teeming throughout the galaxy, if only the slime-to-scientist theories were correct.

The book of Genesis esteems planet Earth in the special care of God. It does not make any direct
statement that other beings were not created on other planets, excepting the realm of Heaven, but the
implication is clear enough. So far, all of our scientific observations have indicated that the role of Earth
in the Universe is just as Genesis indicates. Each day more data is collected which verifies this fact in a
repeatable, scientific fashion.