Christian apologist Frank Turek has told students in Tennessee that the discovery of aliens would not topple Christianity, arguing that any intelligent life found elsewhere in the universe would still fall under the authority of the same creator worshipped on Earth.
For context, Turek's comments come amid a renewed cultural obsession with aliens and UFOs, fed by congressional hearings on unidentified aerial phenomena, viral clips of strange lights in the sky, and a whole new wave of Hollywood speculation about life beyond Earth. Within US Christian circles, that curiosity has come with an anxious twist: are aliens real, and if they are, do they threaten the core of the Christian story?
