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And again, not all those who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial races are would-be Bible compromisers. Some are openly hostile to the Bible. They not only ''acknowledge'' that extraterrestrial races are incompatible with the Bible; they explicitly ''declare'' and even ''celebrate'' this incompatibility. They also are among those who search the hardest for evidence of non-human races or civilizations--''even though, if such civilizations existed, they might be far more powerful militarily than the combined militaries of all human nation-states, and worse yet, be disposed to attack and conquer the earth.''

And again, not all those who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial races are would-be Bible compromisers. Some are openly hostile to the Bible. They not only ''acknowledge'' that extraterrestrial races are incompatible with the Bible; they explicitly ''declare'' and even ''celebrate'' this incompatibility. They also are among those who search the hardest for evidence of non-human races or civilizations--''even though, if such civilizations existed, they might be far more powerful militarily than the combined militaries of all human nation-states, and worse yet, be disposed to attack and conquer the earth.''

This last point bears emphasis. Our present understanding of physical law--that is to say, the [[Special Theory of Relativity|Special]] and the [[General Theory of Relativity]]--strongly militate ''against'' the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation. Thus, if a non-human scout craft were ever shown, that finding alone would suggest that ''its builders have knowledge far beyond the reach of our sciences''--certainly our flight sciences and possibly all other areas of military science as well. We then could only pray (to ''whom?'') that we dealt here with a modern [[Christopher Columbus]]--and not a scout for a modern [[Shalmaneser V]] or [[Sennacherib]] or [[Nebuchadnezzar II]] or [[Cyrus the Great]] or [[Alexander the Great]] or [[Pompey]] the Great or [[Julius Caesar]] or [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]--or [[Adolf Hitler]].

This last point bears emphasis. Our present understanding of physical law--that is to say, the [[Special Theory of Relativity|Special]] and the [[General Theory of Relativity]]--strongly militate ''against'' the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation. Thus, if a non-human scout craft were ever shown, that finding alone would suggest that ''its builders have knowledge far beyond the reach of our sciences''--certainly our flight sciences and possibly all other areas of military science as well. We then could only pray (to ''whom?'') that we dealt here with a modern [[Christopher Columbus]]--and not a scout for a modern [[Shalmaneser V]] or [[Sennacherib]] or [[Nebuchadnezzar II]] or [[Cyrus the Great]] or [[Alexander the Great]] or [[Pompey]] the Great or [[Julius Caesar]] or [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]--or [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref>Author [[Shane Johnson]], in ''[[Ice (novel)|Ice]]'', showed his readers what might have happened had [[Project Apollo]] continued for more missions, and an Apollo crew had then discovered a functioning military base on the moon. One of the astronauts experiences a replay of the last events on that base, and asks himself, ''Why haven't they attacked the earth? They could own it in five minutes.'' Eventually he answers his own question: the base crew did not attack the earth because they were from the earth--because the base was a product of pre-[[Great Flood|Flood]] man.</ref>

=== The Bible and Extraterrestrial Microbes ===

=== The Bible and Extraterrestrial Microbes ===