(June 26, 2015 at 8:02 am)Stimbo Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 2:59 am)Louis Chérubin Wrote: I recently listened to Richard Dawkins speak as part of a panel discussion. He mentioned that perhaps life came from an extraterrestrial source. Is that not vaguely similar to "naked humans created from the dust"? Really, the question of life's origin may be more thought-provoking than you take it to be. Why do you feel that God is not an alternative explantation?
No you didn't and no it isn't. You heard that either in the film "Expelled - No Intelligence Required" or a video of selected highlights from it; that or a likely edited panel discussion in which he talks about the disingenuous interview technique used in that film. Professor Dawkins has written and spoken at length about the experience and how Ben Stein's question, of what scenario Dawkins could imagine in which so-called 'intelligent design' might conceivably be possible, was curiously omitted in order to make him sound as though he believes in aliens. For the record, he doesn't now and didn't then think that aliens seeded life on this planet; and further, went on to say that even granting the possibility, at some point there must have been something like Darwinian evolution to bring about the original lifeforms in the first place. Check your sources in future, because it just seems like you're lying at this point.
Here is the clip I watched. I've watched maybe two minutes of "Expelled" before finding it unsatisfying. I know Dawkins is being facetious (as he often is), but the point I was making is that even atheistic scientists are not conclusive about the origin of life on earth (I think you may agree with that?). Again, I don't care/know what Ben Stein has to say. :-D
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/th...life-panel
