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[569 words] “Mr. Duke, what do you think about the question of life on other planets?” More than one Russian student asked me this question in a Moscow university over thirty years ago. I had expected questions about God, and there were many. But I was surprised at the number of times they asked about extraterrestrials and other ideas like reincarnation and the theory that “God” was actually a traveler from another planet, a view popularized by the 1968 book Chariots of the Gods by Erik von Daniken. I later realized that what happened in Russia is what occurs in any culture where the knowledge of God and His Word are absent. In their very human search for answers as to who we are and where we came from, people try to fill this void with vain speculation and superstition. Now America is going down the same path. There is…