When Michael Behe gives lectures on intelligent The messages dictated to Rael ex

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When Michael Behe gives lectures on intelligent The messages dictated to Rael explain how life design theory, he often opens the floor to questions. on Earth is not the result of random evolution, f a supernatural "God." It is a he was asked, "Could the designer be an alien fromdeliberate creation, using DNA, by a scientif one of those question-and-answer sessions, nor the work o cally advanced people who made human beings outer space?" to which he answered, "Yes." The in telligent design theory itself tells us nothing about literally "in their image"-what one can call the nature of the designer. So it's entirely possible for the designer to be an extraterrestrial. scientific creationism." References to these sci- entists and their work, as well as to their symbol infinity can be found in the ancient texts of Remarkably enough, this is the basic premise on which the religion known as "Raelianism" is founded. Raelianism is the brainchild of the French many cultures. For example, in Genesis, the biblical account of creation, the word "Elohim" journalist Claude Vorilhon. He was inspired to cre has been mistranslated as "God in the singular ate this religion after he was contacted by an extra but it is a plural, which means “those who came terrestrial while walking along the rim of the extinct Puy de Lassolas volcano in central France. The ex from the sky Leaving our humanity to progress by itself, the Elohim nevertheless maintained contact with us traterrestrial told him that all life on Earth was cre ated by aliens from outer space using advancedvia prophets including Buddha, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, all specially chosen and educated by them. sively educate humanity through the messages they taught, each time adapted to the culture and level of understanding at the time. They were also to leave traces of the Elohim so that we would be able to and fellow human beings when we had advanced enough scientifically to understand them.32 genetic engineering technology. Here is a summary of the Raelian story from their Web site: The role of the prophets was to progres- On the 13th of December 1973, French journal- ist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth. recognize them as our creators The extra-terrestrial was about four feet in height, had long dark hair, almond shaped eyes, olive skin and exuded harmony and humour He told Rael that: Thought Probe "we were the ones who made all life on Earth" "you mistook us for gods" "we were at the origin of your main religions" "Now that you are mature enough to under stand this, we would like to enter official con tact through an embassy" Intelligent Design Suppose that life on Earth is the result of intelligent design. Which hypothesis the God hypothesis or the extraterrestrial hypothesis-is the better expla nation? Which hypothesis does better with respect to the criteria of adequacy

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God hypothesis - This is the age old theory that God created the world and everything within it. All the religions hold this view but they are all the evolutionary thinking of human beings because Most of the religions talk about only one world and the earth was the only world the human beings were knew. Science has proved that there millions of stars and thousands of galaxies. They are also at the brink of proving that there are earth like planets that house extraterrestrial life.
Extraterrestrial hypothesis - According to the religions , the whole world has no human beings and in their God's creation human beings form the last group of creation. Even human beings shaped themselves up with advanced cognitive abilities and civilizations. So who dropped the seed for the first level of human beings, undoubtedly extraterrestrials.
Adequacy theory - In my opinion, extraterrestrial life on earth makes more sense. Just think about the advancement in technology in the past fifty years with quantum computers, flights faster that lights etc. Life on earth is relatively new but a planet that has advanced technology long before might have designed life on the earth, just like our cloning. One issue might be the transfer of intelligent genes. That's why people look different in different regions of the world.

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