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The Bellingham Herald, the local newspaper in my neck of the woods, ran an article on me today (you have to love the rocket behind me in the picture). The interview with Michelle Nolan was a lot of fun. It was fascinating — she’s a veritable walking encyclopedia on the history of comic books and science fiction. We tried to focus on several of the ideas in The Facade. I actually got several good trajectories for the sequel, The Portent, from the interview.

I hope readers will check it out!

Technorati Tags: aliens, Bible, Christianity, extraterrestrials, judaism, religion, UFOs

I saw this essay from TIME Magazine pop up on Twitter today: “Dabbling in Exotheology.” The date of the essay was 1978 (unless that’s a typo). The essay opens with this question: “Can the “image of God” survive in extraterrestrial life?”  An understandable one, but an ignorant one, nonetheless. Anyone who has followed my work knows I’ve lectured on this many times. The answer is “yes” (if what is meant is the survival of the doctrine). It’s “no” if what is meant that ET also has this image.

Lest I be misunderstood, I’m not saying TIME is guilty of theological ignorance. The question really is to be expected. The ignorance is to be found among the many millions of Christians and Jews who would be spooked about the confirmation of ET life because they have fundamentally misunderstood the image of God as some sort of (heretofore) human attribute, like intelligence, sentience, speech, etc. This is the way the image gets talked about all the time, but that notion is not at all coherent.

I won’t take the time or space to rehearse the content of my lectures here. The best I can do is the twelve-page essay on the image of God that I recently wrote for a study Bible published by my employer, Logos Bible Software (the article was for the Lexham Bible Dictionary, also our product, but accessible through the study Bible). Look for the section on the meaning of the image. I could have devoted twelve more pages as to why the “traditional” (attribute-based) view undermines a pro-life ethic and fails because of research in fields like artificial intelligence and animal cognition (and the theoretical study of intelligent ET life), but this will have to do. People who have a high view of Scripture and its teaching about how humans are God’s imagers (to know why I use the verbal phrasing, read my essay), an intelligent ET ought not to be any theological threat. And yet it would be, due to theological ignorance.

Technorati Tags: Bible, Christianity, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, image of God, judaism, religion, theology

Today marks the release for pre-order of the special edition of my paranormal-supernatural thriller, The Façade. The special edition published by Kirkdale Press contains some great bonus content:

- Behind The Façade: A look into how and why I wrote The Façade.

- Resources for Further Study: An annotated bibliographic guide to the government documents, covert military programs, UFO controversies, and religious ideas that are part of the plot of The Façade.

- The first five chapters of the highly-anticipated sequel!

The special edition is freshly edited and formatted for your ereader, mobile phone, tablet, and computer. Click here for a synopsis. Readers get 25% off when they pre-order it on Vyrso.

I’ll be revealing a hint about the sequel’s title tomorrow on the blog. Be the first to guess correctly and you’ll get a free copy of The Façade: Special Edition.

Technorati Tags: aliens, AREA 51, Bible, Enoch, extraterrestrial, Facade, nephilim, novel, Paperclip, paranormal, religion, Roswell, theology, thriller, UFOs, Vyrso, Watchers

Readers may recall a few months ago when I announced I’d be interviewed for this documentary. That happened in August. Well, I’m happy to announce that the documentary is finished and online. It’s just over three hours, and free to the public. I haven’t had time to watch it yet, but having read all the scripts, I can tell you it will be well worth viewing. Make sure you visit the actual website, since other video that didn’t make it into the final product will be kept there for viewing, along with source documentation.

I’ve also created a Page on this blog with a link to the documentary so you can easily find it later and direct friends to it.

Technorati Tags: aliens, ancient, astronauts, Bible, channel, extraterrestrials, Ezekiel, history, religion, technology, UFOs, vimana

Dr. Michael Blume, author of the SciLogs blog, whose focus is “the nature of faith / evolutionary studies of religion, was kind enough to ask me for a short interview regarding why modern people believe in PaleoSETI — visitation of earth by aliens in antiquity. I was more than happy to do so. Dr. Blume is currently lecturer of Religious Studies at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His blog is associated with nature.com. Readers will note from his online introduction that he shares many interests with readers of this blog.

Please have a look at the interview!

Technorati Tags: ancient aliens, paleoseti, religion, Zecharia Sitchin