Alone in the Universe?
The X-Files, Aliens and God
By David Wilkinson. Monarch Publications. 160 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 85424 373 X
There is currently a great deal of public interest in the question of extra-terrestrial life. As Christians, it is surely important to know what God's Word says about this and how we can see this as an opportunity to advance the gospel, by pointing a searching world towards Christ.
David Wilkinson, a Methodist chaplain at Liverpool University and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society with a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics, has applied himself to examining the questions of evidence for primitive life on Mars; the discovery of other planets that could sustain life; whether evolution means that all life converges to humanity; alien politics and religion; the nature of consciousness; relativistic limitations on faster than light travel; attempts to detect alien messages; UFOs and alien abductions; government conspiracy theories; and the consequences that all this has on Christianity. Can 138 pages of text do justice to so many large questions?
