Showing posts with label William Paley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Paley. Show all posts

Sunday, September 7, 2025

A new creation-myth we've heard before, in the Christian argument from design


 

The creator God, in whom few believe anymore, replaced by advanced ET creators, in whom many increasingly do.

It's all so predictable. 

 

... according to one new paper, the chances that life emerged by pure chance on Earth are so slim that it's possible that our planet was instead seeded by "advanced extraterrestrials." ...

The theory was first proposed in the early 1970s to explain the incredible unlikeliness of life on Earth. Even at the time, the authors — including molecular biologist Francis Crick, famous for discovering the helical structure of DNA, and Salk Institute for Biological Studies chemist Leslie Orgel — admitted that "scientific evidence" was "inadequate" to "say anything about the probability." ...