Sorry UFO/UAP Enthusiasts: God, Not Aliens, Better Explains the Origin of Life on Earth
By Stephen C. Meyer, University of Cambridge-trained philosopher of science and New York Times bestselling author
The U.S. Navy is set to release its report on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) this coming Friday, June 25th. The Navy's announcement is unlikely to settle the controversy about whether intelligent aliens exist somewhere else in the cosmos. Pre-publication leaks about the content of the report confirm that it contains "no evidence to link them [UAP sightings] 'to any putative alien visitation.'"
Nevertheless, many leading scientists have in recent years been forced to propose that an alien intelligence "seeded" life on earth in order to explain how life first came to be on our planet.
Both evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and the late Francis Crick, for example, have proposed this theory - known as panspermia - to explain how life with its "signature of intelligence" first originated on Earth. Crick, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, explained why he thought it necessary to resort to such a theory. "An honest man armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that ... the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going," says Crick.
In my book Return of the GOD
Hypothesis: Three Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe,
I cast profound doubt on this explanation. [more...]
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