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When Richard Dawkins was interviewed in Expelled?

And said he believed that life might have been seeded throughout the Universe by space aliens, didn't that make him more of a Scientologist than an atheist?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No, it just shows a little taste of crazy. He's willing to accept that Aliens traveled from trillions of miles away to seed our planet...but can't except a supreme being creating us. Huh?? Where does reality actually bend here?

  • 1 decade ago

    “IT IS absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.” How do these words by biologist Richard Dawkins affect you? If you believe the Bible, likely you believe in creation rather than in the theory of evolution. And If you don't believe in the bible you can't believe in God,

    Atheists began to proclaim their views loudly and boldly. Indeed, as Richard Dawkins wrote, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” Science was becoming mankind’s new hope for salvation.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hard question to answer but in 1953 I witnessed three UFOs over some willow trees across the mississippi river channel from Vicksburg, Ms. I do not care how I got here but I do care where I'm going when I leave earth so look to God and let Richard Dawkin, whoever he is, take his track and you take your's.

    Source(s): http:groups.google.com/group/the-word-is-the-seed/web/the-beginning
  • 1 decade ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that Scientologists don't believe that life on Earth was originally started by aliens, only that human consciousness was seeded by Overlord Xenu when he dropped frozen aliens into a volcano, and then the alien souls escaped, but were trapped by our atmosphere, so they infected the proto-humans they found already living here.

    At least, that's what I learned from watching South Park.

    Scientologists: please don't sue me.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You know nothing of my work-Jesus (Family Guy)

    True-Dat! My friend,Haha Richard Dawkins and most modern atheist are quite silly in what they say.Give me the Good Ol' Atheist,nothing like today's ones.Now they clinge the Atheism because it is a purely Materialistic Belief in which one claims only what "they" believe and what they can touch is real.Totally devoid of the Spiritual realm,even if they feel it.They always pass it off as something unexplained.I want the old ones.The ones that use to discuss and challenge your faith in God and stregthening it.Unlike today's wanna-be's who just laugh and you and look snobby,thinking they are the bee's-Knees.Richard Dawkins is quite lunatic to be honest.

    Anyway!!! What you are thinking of is Raelians.Scientologist believe that the aliens of another planet were brought here and nuked.And that we are the alien-ghost-filled carcasses of times.

    May God bless you my friend.

    Mark

    Source(s): Bible,physics,Astrophysics,Quantum Physics,Creation Science. And a love of listening to Dawkins make a fool out of his beliefs.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That scenario is entirely possible. When human astronauts visit Mars and possibly contaminate Martian soil with earthly bacteria, that would be an example of aliens seeding life (not saying that it could actually survive).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Not really -- because the film's editors cut out the part immediately afterward, where he points out that this only pushes the problem of the origins of life back, rather than actually solving anything (because you then have to explain where the "seed" came from)...

  • 1 decade ago

    You know I thought of that idea before that was published when I was an agnostic tripping on LSD. Now that I'm a Christian I realize that, yes, there is a higher intelligence that planted the seeds of life. He has revealed Himself to us. So, Richard might be on the right course with thinking a higher intelligence was involved, but he'll never arrive in time if left to his own understanding.

  • 1 decade ago

    No. Expelled is not a very well made movie, taking people out of context or editing them so they don't say their full lines. However, Dawkins was probably talking about trans-spermia, where life originated in space and fell onto Earth.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not at all. That is a legitimate scientific theory. What is wrong with it? Christians on here have asked if we are arrogant enough to believe that we are the only life in the universe and it is possible that there is other life out there.

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