Do you have the right to be an atheist?

[Whateverist]

By the way, check this out, I think this kind of articles is where pool got his nonsense from:

http://io9.com/the-7-most-intriguing-phi...1507393670

We have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, but that doesn't mean they're not out there. A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is the notion of directed panspermia — the idea that aliens spark life on other planets, like sending spores or probes to fertile planets, and then leave, or monitor and control the process covertly. By definition, therefore, they would be like gods to us.

The guy is trying to argue his points with no background or knowledge of the subject whatsoever, other than the exploration of the pop culture part of the internet under his teenage belt.

So the author was an ascholar.