June 10, 2006

• Why does a belief in aliens so often coincide with a disbelief in
  God?  Why does a belief in God so often coincide with a disbelief
  in aliens?  Both require an element of faith, yet each group mocks
  the other, saying it is stupid to have such a belief.

  Now you have to admit that it is logically absurd to hold a belief in
  God when all of the proof of His existence is circumstantial at
  best.  Many believers in God do not have any basis for believing
  other than faith.  Some are more of the thinking type, coming up
  with rational arguments to support the existence of a God.  One of
  the most popular is saying that everything had to start somewhere, and
  since the first law of thermodynamics says that something can’t come
  from nothing, even the Big Bang had to have an origin somewhere. 
  An intelligent creator or creators only makes sense (of course, that only begs the question of where they came from).

  On the other hand, a belief in little green men can be seen as equally
  absurd, especially since we have no proof other than that which has
  allegedly been covered up.  Many of the people who believe in
  aliens simply want it to be true and don’t think about it
  logically.  The thinkers of the group (most of them in the
  scientific community) have their own rational arguments.  One of
  the biggest is that even with the odds of our evolution being so
  infinitessimal, such a large universe opens up all sorts of
  possibilities of intelligent life on other worlds.  With so many
  galaxies with all of their billions of stars, it only stands to reason
  that at least a few of those would have planets capable of supporting
  life, and some of those planets would have lifeforms with comparable
  intelligence to our own.

  Neither of these groups really has any concrete evidence to support
  their claims, yet they stick to their guns nevertheless.  Is it
  really so undermining to religion to believe in aliens?  After
  all, couldn’t God have decided He liked creating life so much that He
  decided to do it some more?  Why create such a large universe if
  you are only going to use one little speck of it?  It’s like
  buying a ream of paper to write the letter “a” on one sheet.  What a
  waste.  Then again, however, why are the aliens people and the
  scientific community so adamantly against a belief in God?  If
  there is life on other planets, that doesn’t necessarily point to the
  existence of God.  However, if aliens do exist, we can pretty much
  guarantee that we are not the most technologically advanced of all
  lifeforms in the universe.  It is logically possible that an alien
  species out there could have been so much more advanced that it created
  our planet and/or planted the seeds of life on the planet.  It is
  also possible that they could be so advanced that they have left this
  dimension entirely, essentially becoming gods themselves.

  The funny thing is is that both of these groups share one belief, and
  that is the belief in some sense of order to all things.  The
  religious people believe in divine intervention, where a Creator set
  things in motion and guided them to be the way they are now.  The
  aliens/scientific people believe that everything happened by chance,
  but they still hold to laws and theories as the governing agents of the
  universe.

  This just brings us back to the age-old science vs. God
  argument.  I think religious people are afraid that adopting any
  kind of
  scientific rationale means they are leaving God and turning to the
  futile explanations of men.  I think scientific people are afraid
  of believing in God because it would mean chucking their brain out the
  window and relying on pure faith.  Neither is
  true, yet I think so many people believe it nonetheless.  Both of
  these groups are afraid of opening their mind up at all for fear that
  everything they have stood for their entire lives would be wrong.

  I do not think that science and faith have to be mutually exclusive.

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