Why are some people, like Richard Dawkins and other boneheads, so ready and willing to believe in aliens and yet refuse to believe in God? I watched the movie “Expelled” recently, and during an interview, Dawkins was absolutely convinced that there is no God. Yet he thinks that the theory that aliens came and “seeded” the earth, and that creatures then evolved, is a very possible scenario.
What the?!
I think it just shows what a dunce Dawkins and others like him really are. It just shows where they are coming from– they don’t WANT to believe in God, because God and all His rules and expectations interfere with the “sexual morays” of the atheists.
I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that. Thomas Nagel
I have to agree with C. S. Lewis (once an atheist himself), who said (in his book, Mere Christianity):
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
…Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . .
So some people may not LIKE the fact that God exists. Why can’t they be honest with themselves and others and just confess this? There is no proof that God does not exist; as a matter of fact, there is ample proof that God does indeed exist. But if one already has the determination to disbelieve, then facts will not interfere. But like Lincoln said (I must be really into quotes today!):
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Like a little kid behind the draperies– he thinks because he cannot see his parents, that his parents cannot see him; but the parents can see the kid clearly, whether the kid thinks they see or not.
So back to aliens– I don’t get it. I’m a plain-speakin’, plain-thinkin’ woman. If you refuse to believe in God, in particular as God as the Creator of the Universe, how can you possibly believe in aliens who came to earth and “seeded” the planet with lifeforms? Moreover, how can you swallow a camel to believe in evolution (no evidence) yet not swallow the gnat to believe in the Creator?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:47 am
You did not provide any links to where Dawkins supposedly says he believes in panspermia. The only time I have even seen anyone suggest this was the deceptively edited Expelled propoganda film.
Also, if Lewis ever was ana theist then he apparently never put any thought into it (much like Kirk Cameron) as he fails to grasp several basic arguments.
Third, show me this evidence for god. I assert that there is none and you can feel free to look at any of the top rated atheist blogs for more information (http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=480) Absense of evidence is evidence of absence not to mention that all definitions of god save for three or four are both logically inconsistent and inconsistent with empirical evidence.
Feel free to present a rational sound argument for god and we can talk, otherwise stop posting unsourced claims and cotton-pickin’ aphorisms in place of reasoned argument.
Thanks.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Athiests are also the laziest people in the world wanting everyone else to do the legwork so they themselves can sit back and doubt. Go find out yourself. It’s so easy to sit in a rocking chair and doubt everything and make demands for “proof.”