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ABC News reports:
Alien encounters may seem like sure-fire winners to Hollywood, but one of the world's most famous scientists thinks they may be "too risky" be be worth seeking.

Steven Hawking discusses the risks he says alien life poses to humans.
In a new Discovery Channel documentary, which premiered Sunday night, British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said that communicating with aliens could be a threat to Earth. Hawking said it is likely that alien life exists, but a visit from extraterrestrials might be similar to Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas.

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."

Oops! Too late! It seems that we have been broadcasting messages into outer space already for years, some intentional, others not so much. Four NASA deep space probes — Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 — carry plaques and recordings that say hello from Earth and give directions on how to get here.

You may be asking, Why? How did we get to this? Why is our government spending millions of dollars listening for signals from space when we are in such a budget crisis? Forget the budget crisis, WHY ARE WE SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LISTENING FOR SIGNALS FROM SPACE?!?

One word...evolution. Read the above quote from Stephen Hawking again. See the last line?

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."

If evolution on our planet led to intelligent life, namely humans, than evolution could have led to intelligent life on other planets as well. All we have to do is find them.

With a biblical worldview, this is not possible. The earth was created unique amongst the entire universe. The stars, sun, and moon were set up not to support life on other planets but to be a benefit for our planet (Genesis 1:14-15).