Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Wouldn’t aliens manage to avoid crashing their ships, given how advanced they’d have to be? Aren’t the distances between life-supporting planets too vast to feasibly travel? If figures in the government actually knew something, wouldn’t a cover-up involve too many people to keep the secret for long?
I’m joined by Jimmy Akin to answer ten common objections to UFO phenomena and alien visitations. In the wake of recent news stories about unidentified aerial phenomena, I heard the same skeptical talking points trotted out over and over again as if UFO believers had never considered them and had no response to them at all. So I’d like to play whatever small part I can in improving the quality of the discourse by advancing the conversation past the initial thoughts that are commonly offered into more interesting territory. This should make skeptics better skeptics, and help agnostics like myself better appreciate the skeptical position. Right now, the skeptics are not sending their best.
The Objections emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/alien-apologetics-w-jimmy-akin
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World sqpn.com/2023/09/alien-apologetics-with-emerson-green
The conversation on Jimmy’s channel youtu.be/aptdgtE5z-E?si=5OIF0jVrpO2KOyh5
My Linktree https://linktr.ee/emersongreen
/ timestamps /
00:00 Introduction
01:47 Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
05:28 The Trump Objection
13:43 The 'Too Many People' Objection
22:47 The Crash Objection
33:50 The Distance Objection
47:39 The Geography Objection
54:48 The Skeptic Community
1:02:05 The Historical Objection
1:16:01 The Motivation Objection
1:38:19 The Low Priors Objection
1:54:43 The Illusion Objection
2:03:27 The Psychoanalysis Objection
2:15:00 Conclusion
2:18:00 Goodbyes
Wouldn’t aliens manage to avoid crashing their ships, given how advanced they’d have to be? Aren’t the distances between life-supporting planets too vast to feasibly travel? If figures in the government actually knew something, wouldn’t a cover-up involve too many people to keep the secret for long?
I’m joined by Jimmy Akin to answer ten common objections to UFO phenomena and alien visitations. In the wake of recent news stories about unidentified aerial phenomena, I heard the same skeptical talking points trotted out over and over again as if UFO believers had never considered them and had no response to them at all. So I’d like to play whatever small part I can in improving the quality of the discourse by advancing the conversation past the initial thoughts that are commonly offered into more interesting territory. This should make skeptics better skeptics, and help agnostics like myself better appreciate the skeptical position. Right now, the skeptics are not sending their best.
The Objections emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/alien-apologetics-w-jimmy-akin
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World sqpn.com/2023/09/alien-apologetics-with-emerson-green
The conversation on Jimmy’s channel youtu.be/aptdgtE5z-E?si=5OIF0jVrpO2KOyh5
My Linktree https://linktr.ee/emersongreen
/ timestamps /
00:00 Introduction
01:47 Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
05:28 The Trump Objection
13:43 The 'Too Many People' Objection
22:47 The Crash Objection
33:50 The Distance Objection
47:39 The Geography Objection
54:48 The Skeptic Community
1:02:05 The Historical Objection
1:16:01 The Motivation Objection
1:38:19 The Low Priors Objection
1:54:43 The Illusion Objection
2:03:27 The Psychoanalysis Objection
2:15:00 Conclusion
2:18:00 Goodbyes
