Should Christians Believe In Aliens? Jimmy Responds to Friendly Skeptic

He's conflating UFO's with aliens. They're not the same thing.

Recently, Jimmy has clipped the "g" at the end of words ending in "ing".

That's kind of dodging the question. He's not asking whether epistemic duties exist (the answer we got). He drew parallel between subjective, testimony driven character of evidence for both religion and UFO. Which admittedly isn't a question. But it's still a shame we didn't get any comments about.

Evidence hasn't been so truthful lately.

This conversation is uncomfortable because it teeters on the is/ought problem. A fact is a fact. You cant derive value from a fact. "Ought" i believe something would never be found in the thing itself. 2+2=4. This is an accurate statement. But "ought" I believe it? What is the evidence that I "ought" to do anything at all?

I think he's saying 'witness testimony' is comparable. The use of the word 'ought' is injecting the shaky notion that because Christians believe in the resurrection based on 'witness testimony' that they should be fodder for belief in 'UFO's' too on the same premise. I think however that belief & faith stem from multiple sources, witness testimony in the Gospels is one of those. Also, there is a firm belief yhat 'humans' exist as we're here talking to each other & 'humans' have recorded history with scholars who have examined the evidence that we 'still' have. UFO's on the other hand may exist - they may be man made, they may not be. The evidence for Christians that they 'ought' to believe is insufficient. Christians would be better off saying, 'I'm not entirely convinced, but based on the 'evidence' perhaps there is something interesting here & following the evidence'. I think the caller is comparing something that may on a very cursory glance look the same....the 'evidence'....like one might say apples are oranges. However, we know they're not.

Surprised Jim Madden has said this. Sounds like a weak argument

Zoroastrianism is a thing.. yes pinning down the founding year is difficult.. that was a strange analogy/comparison. Maybe I missed something?(I often do)

God gave us the gift of free will and wouldn't obligate us to believe anything so just the words 'obligated to believe' is shocking to me, forget the argument for or against.

What!? CHRIST has archeological and thiusands of eye witnesses. He's KING. Being as there's no BIBLICAL evidence of Mary Worship, and that author believes in that, I'm not holding THAT BOOK'S opinion very high.