Supernatural

Despite the overwhelming evidence that we are the result of many millenia of evolutionary forces, some people claim that we are in fact the product of aliens. Foremost of these is Rael, the founder of the Raelian Movement.

The Raelians believe that aliens called the Elohim created humanity. This was explained to Rael during his contact with Elohim who asked him to establish an embassy in preparation for their return. According to Rael’s publication, “Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers“, different teams were established to design humans and a competition was held to make it more interesting. What resulted were the five races of man.

Speciation in evolutionary biology can explain why Asian people have different eyes from the rest of us, why Africans are black and Caucasians are mostly white. Had our different races not intermingled, it’s highly probable that we would have speciated so much that we would not be able to procreate inter-racially. Fortunately, we never evolved to that stage.

The Intelligent Design theses begins to fall apart when it falls back on Christian mythology and talks about rewards and punishments for selected people, resulting in eternal life for those selected. Later, Rael claims to have seen living beings created from a machine. These beings are physically identical with us but don’t have souls, so they are used to do menial tasks and also to satisfy our sexual needs; one can simply dial in a prescription and within minutes, pop!, a narrow waisted, beautiful Asian lady with long nipples and gorgeous breasts appears (my fantasy, not Rael’s), ready to relieve one of months or years of pent up sexual energy.

I must admit, by the time I had reached this part of the title, I didn’t bother to keep reading. It all sounded too good … an old theme dressed in different clothes. More bullshit, I thought.

The Wingmakers site, which has been around for a while now also discusses our origins from a group of aliens called “The Wingmakers”. The Wingmakers are the Central Race whose task it is to build and populate worlds. But lurking somewhere so far away as to be unreachable or to communicate with us is the Source … their version of God.

Once again, very similar to the Christian myth.

If you are interested in researching the alien creation theory, both sites are worth having a good look at. In the end, if your brain works well and you have good critical thinking and rationalising skills, you’ll probably reach the same conclusion as me: that we don’t know to what extent, if any, alien intelligences may have affected our evolution. It’s remotely feasible that life does exist on other planets and therefore it is possible they have visited earth and may have done some meddling while here.

An alien germination theory is at least more feasible than creation myths that see the world being created in seven days by some omniscient, omnipotent being who created us in his own image, but as sinners doomed to eternal damnation.

I think I’ll keep my bet where the evidence is, the evidence of evolution and the complete absence of gods and religions that serve our human interests. Being an atheist is liberating as one can still research and consider other views rather than believe that all the questions have been answered and no further exploration is necessary.

What do you think? Are we the product of aliens or evolution?

Dark Horse

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