Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

Wolseley said:

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Here we go again. I actually sat in on one of these debates once, when I was in college. The "Nominal Protestant Christian" insisted that God created everything, while "The Scientifically Minded Atheist" just as strenuously insisted it all came about by random chance. And back and forth they went. After a while it got to be tedious, because neither one convinced the other. The "Scientifically Minded Atheist" did concede at one point that it was possible, but unlikely, that aliens "might have" created the world and man, but that it was a slim shot.

After the debate, one of our associates (who denied the existence of God) asked me ("The Practicing Catholic", which he fully well knew) what I thought, adding that surely there was no possible way that any rational mind could believe that "a magical god" could simply create life out of nothing. I responded by saying that adding aliens to the mix only created another step. He stared at me and said, "Huh?"

I said, "Look: you got two basic schools of thought here, yeah? One says, 'God exists, and He created everything that is'. Then you have the other, that says, 'There is no God; instead, extraterrestrials, far more advanced than we, created everything that is', right? Or in other words, God didn't create man, aliens did." He agreed that this premise was correct. And all I did was shrug and say, "Okay, so let's go with the theory that man was created by aliens. All that does is add another step."

He said, "I'm not following you," and I said, "If you want to use the 'aliens' theory as a method to disprove the existence of God, all you're doing is adding an extra step. Okay, so aliens created man. But who created the aliens???"

He blinked a couple of times, and a second later scoffed at my comment, but I could see that I had started some wheels turning. I sometimes wonder if his thinking ever changed in later years.

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