1. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163915 by dawkinsfan on April 19, 2008 at 9:23 am

This year I met a scientist and he introduced me to raelian theory of life origins and I later discovered that raelian philosophy is very scientific and advanced.
This kind of open minded thinking like in this article is very raelian indeed.

I'm reading again their book that I downloaded from their site, and here is what this extraterestrials say about evolution:
"First of all you must dispel from your minds all uncertainty about evolution. Your scientists who have elaborated theories of evolution are not completely wrong in saying that humanity is descended from the monkey and the monkey from the fish and so on. In truth, the first living organism created on Earth was unicellular, which then gave rise to more complex life forms.
But this did not happen by chance! When we came to Earth to create life, we started by making very simple creations and then improved our techniques of environmental adaptation. This enabled us to make in turn fish, amphibians, mammals, birds, primates and finally man himself, who is just an improved model of the monkey to which we added what makes use essentially human.
In this way, we made human beings in our image, as it is written in the Bible in Genesis. You could have realized for yourselves that there is little chance of a series of accidents producing such variety of life forms - the colors of birds and their elaborate mating rituals, or the shape of antelope horns.
What natural need could lead antelopes or wild goats to develop curled horns? Or birds to have blue or red feathers? And what about exotic fish?
All that is the work of our artists. Do not forget the artists when you create life. Imagine a world without them - no music, films, paintings or sculptures ... Life would be very boring and animals very ugly if their bodies corresponded only to their needs and functions.
Evolution of the various forms of life on Earth is really the evolution of techniques of creation and the increased sophistication of the creators' work. ...."

all the books can be downloaded here: http://rael.org/download.php?list.2

The book is very interesting to read and says that in original Hebrew bible you can't find a word God but Elohim wich is a plural and means "those who came from the sky".
It is interesting that many other ancient cultures(aborigini, sumerians...) around the world describe beings coming from the sky and creating life here on earth.

I also found their coment on Richard Dawkins http://www.raelianews.org/news.php?extend.268



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