From The Radio Patriot:

This morning’s fallout from yesterday’s premiere of Ben Stein’s movie EXPELLED shows up in this piece in the LA Times in which famed atheist (and mendacious) Richard Dawkins (prominently featured) characterizes a belief in a supernatural being tantamount to belief in “space aliens”. Gawd, this guy is condescending…

“I… sometimes hand an olive branch to these people by pretending to take their “space aliens” political ploy seriously. Unrealistic as the space alien theory is, it constitutes intelligent design’s best shot.

The distinguished molecular biologists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel advanced a version of the notion, probably tongue in cheek, called “Directed Panspermia.” Life, they argued, could have been “seeded” on the early Earth by a spacecraft packed with bacteria. Maybe little cellular machines like the bacterial flagellar motor were designed by ingenious nano-technologists from Betelgeuse. But you still have to explain the prior existence of the Betelgeusians and how they became so advanced and god-like. Even if Betelgeusian life was, in turn, seeded by another rocket from Aldebaran 4 billion years earlier, eventually we have to terminate the regress.

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