WorldNetDaily: Did aliens save planet in 1908?That's the question to which a Russian research team thinks they have the answer. Searching at the site of the Tunguska Meteorite, they have found a large metallic block of unknown composition and have chipped off a chunk and sent it for assay.

For the record, in 1908 a large explosion felled trees for sixty miles around near Tunguska, Siberia, in the last years of Tsar Nikolai II--three years after the Russo-Japanese War. Witnesses described a fireball as bright as the sun, and then the explosion. The modern scientists are now actively speculating that an "enlightened" ET admiral sent a ship to destroy a meteor that, had it struck intact, would have created an Extinction-Level Event. The crew of that ship allegedly sacrificed themselves--hence the lump of metal of an unknown alloy.

But what these scientists do not mention--what such "scientists" never mention--is that they have no better explanation than any Christian might have for how such an ET fleet might have gotten here. Talking about their motives, and assuming those motives to be "enlightened," is not enough. It's bad enough that secular scientists blithely assume that with advancement in technology comes equal advancement in enlightenment and ethics and sensitivity and compassion. Gene Roddenberry, of Star Trek fame, asked us to buy that theory, this although he populated his "advanced technology" world with stand-ins for the Soviets ("Klingons") and the ChiComs ("Romulans"). But such assumptions violate everything that even a secular scientist must admit about the fallen nature of the cosmos and of every life-form in it.

But what is so stunning is that the same scientists who are so quick to claim that they have found crash debris from an ET scoutcraft--or even the space-borne equivalent of a SWIFT Boat--have no idea how such a craft--or the fleet of which it would have been a part--could have gotten here, or from where. The overwhelming consensus in astronomy today relies heavily on Einstein, who said that nothing could ever reach the speed of light in a vacuum, and that the closer anyone got to that speed, the heavier he'd get, with no limit--and once he got to that speed, he might never stop. While this is convenient for claiming that the cosmos must be older than six thousand years (though Einstein himself might quarrel with that view, since General Relativity suggests that space-time continual conditions were far different at Creation than they are today), it becomes most inconvenient to anyone who wants to speculate about extraterrestrial visitation! Here again is a perfect example of how "scientists" ignore their own earlier pronouncements whenever it suits them.

I submit this for your strong delusion [II Thessalonians 2:8ff.] files, as a sample of the kind of deluded theory that secularists will propound in order to explain certain soon-to-be-fulfilled biblical prophecies as having a cause other than Divine intervention.