Congress to hold UFO hearing today: What God may have intended with the question of alien life
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 16 May 2022
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Do aliens exist? Should extraterrestrial life forms concern Christians? As a House subcomittee meets today for an open congressional hearing on UFOs, the question of life on other planets may take center stage in the public square. In The Daily Article for May 17, 2022, Dr. Ryan Denison looks into what the Bible says about alien life and suggests why this should matter to Christians.
Author: Dr. Ryan Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, May the 17th, 2022. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:14.0 | He is the Denison Forum Senior Editor for Theology and has written more than 400 articles for Denison Forum. |
| 0:21.6 | A U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee will meet today for the first open congressional hearing on UFOs since 1970. |
| 0:30.6 | The hearing is in response to a report delivered to Congress last June by the intelligence community |
| 0:36.6 | and the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial |
| 0:39.2 | Phenomena Task Force. That task force has since been reconstituted as the Airborne Object |
| 0:46.7 | Identification and Management Synchronization Group, which exists to detect, identify, and attribute objects of interest in special use airspace, |
| 0:58.0 | and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security. |
| 1:04.0 | If you heard all that and come away thinking that there are probably better ways for our government |
| 1:10.0 | to be spending their time and |
| 1:11.3 | resources. Well, you're not alone. Even the chairman of the House subcommittee holding the hearing, |
| 1:17.7 | Andre Carson, confessed, I've gotten some chuckles from others about the meeting. He went on to add, |
| 1:23.8 | though, that it's something I'm passionate about and I think I can take the heat. |
| 1:28.8 | This may be the very thing that brings Democrats and Republicans together, at least for an hour or two. |
| 1:34.6 | He has argued, on a more serious note, that the hearing was important because this is an area of |
| 1:41.4 | high public interest and any undue secrecy can serve as an obstacle to solving the mystery, |
| 1:48.7 | or it could prevent us from finding solutions to potential vulnerabilities. |
| 1:53.9 | Regardless of what you may believe personally about aliens and UFOs, Representative Carson is right that it's an area of high public interest. |
| 2:03.7 | But if it's not an area of personal interest to you, why should you still care? |
| 2:08.1 | Well, let's start with a basic but necessary point for clarification. If your faith in God |
| 2:14.4 | feels threatened or shaken by the prospect of life existing outside of our planet, |
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