Living Journey

Ok, I just cracked up when I read this article by Dawkins…

But now the question arises: In what sense would the god-like aliens not be gods? Answer: In a very important sense. To deserve the name of God, a being would have to have designed more than just a jumbo jet or even a starship. He would have to have designed the universe. And therein lies a fundamental contradiction. Entities capable of designing anything, whether they be human engineers or interstellar aliens, must be complex — and therefore, statistically improbable. And statistically improbable things don’t just happen spontaneously by chance without an explanation trail.

Statically impossible hey?

Dawkins was questioned by Ben Stein in the recent “Expelled” movie in regards to the improbability of God, as Jonathan Wells reports the following on… what number he (Dawkins) would assign to the improbability of God, and how he knows what the number is. In what I consider the funniest scene in the movie after Michael Ruse’s “I already told you” interview about the origin of life, Dawkins suggests that God’s existence is 99% improbable. Stein asks him, Why not 97%? Dawkins hems and haws and says he’s not comfortable assigning a number. With his trademark deadpan look, Stein presses him: So maybe it’s only 49%? Dawkins replies that he doesn’t know, but it’s certainly much higher than that.

Yeah, that’s real science!!!

…Even if our species was created by space alien designers, those designers themselves would have to have arisen from simpler antecedents — so they can’t be an ultimate explanation for anything. No matter how god-like our interstellar aliens may be, and no matter how vast and wonderful their starships, they cannot have designed the universe because, like human engineers and all complex things, they are late arrivals in it.

At least he admits that believing in aliens coming to this blue orb of ours and creating everybody and everything in it is just pushing the answer to the… How did we get here conundrum further away. He’s probably referring to “Panspermia“, kudos for that!

Then he admits that the “Intelligent Design Theory” is often loaded with…”Space Aliens did it Scenario” so to distant themselves from the “Biblical 6 day literalist”. C’mon, you know who you are!

Intelligent design “theorists” (a misnomer, for they have no theory) often use the alien scenario to distance themselves from old-style creationists: “For all we know, the designer might be an alien from outer space.”

I agree wholeheartedly when Dawkins says that… This attempt to fend off accusations of unconstitutionally importing religion into science classes is lame and disingenuous.

But according to Dawkins these “‘ID’ space invader advocates” are just fundies…All the leading intelligent design spokesmen are devout, and, when talking to the faithful, they drop the science-fiction fig leaf and expose themselves as the fundamentalist creationists they truly are.

Really? Is that right? Hmmm, NOT good.

If this is true then this is very problematic for many, many reasons.

Related:

• The Nephilim search

• The Indigo search