Elusive Search for Aliens

Last weekend the Wall Street Journal had an article on the front page titled, "Is Anybody Out There?" It's an article about man's search for extra-terrestial life.

For the past 50+ years we have had telescopes and radio antennas pointed into the sky and, according to scientists, we have never seen or heard anything...or so the article says.

What I found intensely interesting is that the author begins to hypothesize that maybe we are looking for aliens in the wrong places. He wonders if maybe their marker or message to us was left in our DNA thousands of years ago.

Another physical object with enormous longevity is DNA. Our bodies contain some genes that have remained little changed in 100 million years. An alien expedition to Earth might have used biotechnology to assist with mineral processing, agriculture or environmental projects. If they modified the genomes of some terrestrial organisms for this purpose, or created their own micro-organisms from scratch, the legacy of this tampering might endure to this day, hidden in the biological record.

Which leads to an even more radical proposal. Life on Earth stores genetic information in DNA. A lot of DNA seems to be junk, however. If aliens, or their robotic surrogates, long ago wanted to leave us a message, they need not have used radio waves. They could have uploaded the data into the junk DNA of terrestrial organisms. It would be the modern equivalent of a message in a bottle, with the message being encoded digitally in nucleic acid and the bottle being a living, replicating cell. (It is possible—scientists today have successfully implanted messages of as many as 100 words into the genome of bacteria.) A systematic search for gerrymandered genomes would be relatively cheap and simple. Incredibly, a handful of (unsuccessful) computer searches have already been made for the tell-tale signs of an alien greeting.

Read full article here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304198004575172041886354262.html

Of course the Bible doesn't support this theory. But the Bible does say that at one time, fallen angels came to women on earth, had sex with them and produced mutant beings...some of them being powerful giants. Genesis 6 even goes on to suggest that the reason for Noah's flood was that Satan had been tampering with human DNA and had "corrupted" all flesh in an attempt to thwart a human savior promised in Genesis 3.

Here's the point....mankind is being prepared to accept these ideas of "aliens". But Bible readers will know right away that they are nothing more than fallen angels dressed up as "aliens".