Many of you saw the blockbuster movie Independence Day.1 If you are a little bit older, you may have felt like you had seen the film before, and essentially you had because it was a remake of the 1953 science fiction classic War of the Worlds, but it had one very great difference.

While both versions feature aliens invading Earth, in the 1953 movie scientists came up with a weapon that is eventually destroyed. The population, in great panic, is forced to turn to God, and churches are jammed with people praying. Furthermore, their prayers are answered. The aliens contract earthborn bacteria and suddenly die off. There is a final voice over in that movie that says, "All that men could do had failed," implying that deliverance had come from the hand of God. Amazingly, the film ends with a sc…