The search for extraterrestrial life continues, and NASA is leading the way.

Everyone has their own personal worldview, beliefs and faith, and all this has a direct impact on the way we perceive reality. Does alien life exist? If so, what does it look like, and how does it behave? While the existence of alien life has been relegated to movies and science fiction, its acceptance largely stems from evolutionary thinking. If one believes life on earth arose from non-living chemicals, and all life on earth is related to a single common ancestor, then surely life could have arisen elsewhere in the universe, right?

Nonetheless, there are competing views, and the one most consistent with the scientific evidence is a biblical worldview, where God created life on earth in six days, and the rest of the universe exists to benefit life on earth. In this worldview, there’s no logical reason to think alien life should exist. Why should it? What purpose would it serve?

So this article from Phys Org begins with the headline: “Signs of life detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons, experimental setup shows.”

First, this is irresponsible reporting because it sounds like scientists detected life from some alien moon. But that’s not what happened at all. It’s deceptive. Unfortunately, such reporting helps indoctrinate viewers into accepting evolutionary ideas like this.

What is really happening amounts to speculation and hope. This October NASA will launch a new mission called the Europa Clipper, which will carry instruments capable of detecting life in grains of ice ejected from Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Of course, if there’s no life, then the instruments shouldn’t detect any life. Yet scientists could continue speculating that it exists, but they just weren’t looking at the right place at the right time. Just because the samples didn’t contain life, they could say, doesn’t mean life doesn’t exist there. They even hope to find fatty acids, lipids, or the “building blocks” of life, all of which would serve to make their case for the existence of alien life elsewhere in the universe.

Evolutionists have invested heavily in these moons because the moons are believed to contain vast oceans beneath a thick crust of ice, and if there’s liquid water, that’s where they believe they’ll find life in abundance. According to lead author Fabian Klenner, “Our results give us more confidence that using upcoming instruments, we will be able to detect lifeforms similar to those on Earth, which we increasingly believe could be present on ocean-bearing moons.”

Why do they increasingly believe life could be present on these moons? Is it because there’s evidence? No. It’s strictly because their evolutionary worldview (belief system) posits the existence of life there.

However, if God didn’t create life elsewhere in the universe, then it becomes a waste of time and resources to pursuit something that doesn’t exist in order to maintain a secular worldview.

Of course that doesn’t mean we should abandon scientific pursuits of the planets and moons within our solar system. It just means we should concentrate our efforts elsewhere- understanding the geology, geography, composition, atmosphere, and other important facets.

Now I propose a demonstration of worldviews. I’ll predict that scientists won’t find life native to Europa on this mission, nor will they find fatty acids or lipids, which are only produced by living organisms. Stay tuned to see which worldview prevails. The Europa Clipper should reach Europa’s orbit by the year 2030.