| JamesCantu said: Pemalite said: “There is the same amount of evidence for Aliens as there is for your particular God... That is zero, zilch, nada. Here’s my response: Check out this video. In his own words, Dawkins postulates that aliens seeded life on earth. Ridley Scott actually picked up on this atheistic concept in his movie Prometheus. The important takeaway for me from Dawkins’ inadvertent admission is that even simple life is incredibly complex and highly improbable without the aid of an intelligent creator. Dawkins knows life can’t create itself, but he can’t bring himself to acknowledge or worship God. It’s a heart issue, not a head issue. |
That is not in any way a reasonable interpretation of what he said.
Dawkins said several times when asked how the first self replicating molecules arose "I don't know". Which is a very sensible answer for someone who is not in any way an expert on abiogenesis or chemistry (to my knowledge).
He was then asked "What is the possibility that intelligent design might be the answer to some of these issues in genetics"? So Dawkins goeas along and throws out a possibility. That is in no way anythign close to him admitting life is improbable without an intelligent creator. All he's doing is saying it's theoretically possible.
Funny enough this movie was from "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". In the filming of that movie, they told Richard Dawkins and others that they were being interviewed for a pro-evolution documentary when the intention was to make an anti-evolution "documentary" which is rife with intentional dishonesty, omitted relevant details, and enough overall scumbaggery to make Michael Moore blush. The very intention was to get interviews with these people, so they could be badgered into giving bad answers. So that somewhere someone on the internet could be like "SEE RICHARD DAWKINS BELIEVES IN ALIENS!"
If you are actually interested in what Dawkins thinks about the possibility of an intelligent designer, he's literally written books about it. I would suggest that if you are an intellectually honest person who wants to fairly represent those views, you might read one of those books, instead of watching one clip from an ambush interview. Especially one that even taken at face value does not say what you're claiming it does.
