james bond
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Renowned celebrity physicist Stephen Hawking is at the forefront of the search for extra-terrestrial life. But he warns against making contact with aliens as he fears they will be two-billion-years āmore evolvedā.
"Time and again I am confronted with the view from young people that āOf course there are aliens out there. We canāt be the only ones.ā This is a surprise to many of the older church folk in my acquaintance. However, CMIās UFO authority, Gary Bates, indicates that in his experience belief in aliens can be found across all age groupsāincluding churchgoers. Surveys estimate that more than 80% of Western peoples believe that ET is āout there somewhereā which presumably encapsulates a lot of believers also.1 But many young folk in particular have been influenced by science fiction notions of aliens traversing the galaxy in their faster-than-light spaceships and advanced weaponry. And older folk are especially surprised to see that young peopleās belief in extra-terrestrials often goes hand-in-hand with a morbid fear of what aliens will do to them.
Belief in aliensāand fear arising from thatāis a logical outflow of our young people having been sold the idea that we are the result of evolution, not creation. Life evolved on Earth (the argument says), therefore elsewhere in the universeābillions of years older than our solar system according to evolutionary reckoningāit would surely have evolved there, too.2 As well-known Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researcher Seth Shostak said when asked why he believed in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials:
By hawking evolution to a vulnerable public, theyāre also hawking fear of aliens, too
āTo believe that they donāt exist requires positing that whatās happened on Earth is some sort of miracle. I find that premise a tougher sell than to think that intelligence is a fairly frequent development in a 14-billion-year-old cosmos.ā3"
It's amusing in that it's science fiction, but I also know that people who believe in other people will believe it no matter how smart they think they are. To believe that they don't exist means that some kind of miracle happened on Earth.
- Bates, G., and Cosner, L., UFOlogy: the worldās fastest-growing āscientificā religion?, 2016; creation.com/ufology. ET needed evolution, 2016; creation.com/et-evolution.
- DiGregorio, B., Interview: The alien hunter, New Scientist 199(2674):42ā43, September 2008; newscientist.com.
- DiGregorio, B., Interview: The alien hunter, New Scientist 199(2674):42ā43, September 2008; newscientist.com.
Hawking fear of aliens - creation.com