Atheist
champion Richard Dawkins was once asked whether aliens could be
responsible for life on earth. He said, "Well, it could come about in
the following way. It could be that at some earlier time somewhere in
the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian
means to a very, very high level of technology and designed a form of
life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet."
The Kardeshev scale rates civilizations based on their level of advancement.
- Type I is capable of exploiting all energy on its planet.
- Type II is capable of exploiting all energy from its star.
- Type III is capable of exploiting all energy from its galaxy.
- Type IV is capable of exploiting intergalactic energy, including the dark variety.
Et cetera through clusters, superclusters, and larger scale structures…
- Type X, let's say, is a civilization that exploits energy at the multiverse level and is exempt from the laws of thermodynamics.
From
an ant's perspective, humans are gods. From a human's perspective, a
Type II civilization would be gods. The God of Genesis would be from a
civilization of Type X.
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If aliens came down in a space ship and walked on water, turned water to wine, calmed a storm, healed handicapped people, and gave sight to the blind, would humanity worship them as a gods or simply try to acquire their science secrets?
Why is it easier for
an atheist to acknowledge the possibility of advanced alien
civilizations than to believe in the possibility of gods when, from a
human perspective, highly advanced aliens capable of bringing life to
earth and working wonders would be gods? The universe extends almost a 100 billion
light-years in all directions. If there are no gods out there, it's an awful waste of space!