However, a survey of religious people found that most are comfortable with the idea of intelligent aliens and do not see it threatening their beliefs. Some atheists claim the discovery of aliens would destroy organized religion or invalidate the Bible.
While we haven’t yet detected signs of alien life, what would such a discovery mean for Christians? Could intelligent life be living on some of those planets? This is the subject of much scientific speculation and entertaining science fiction. They now estimate that there are billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Astronomers are discovering thousands of planets in orbit around other stars.
