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Friends, we've long known that one of the biggest problems vexing the atheist community is the fact that without a God, they have no way to explain the existence of mankind.
Yes, yes, they've gotten lots of mileage out of their "evolution" theory, but in their heart of hearts, evolution makes them nervous, because they intuitively know that it's nothing more than a house of cards. Anybody with just a modicum of scientific training, or even the most rudimentary critical thinking skills, can see that while evolution rests on shaky ground, creationism is unassailable.
As such, creationism, the true account of human origins, is a threat to atheism which just won't go away.
If only there was some way to co-opt creationism. If only there was some way to incorporate "intelligent design" into a godless belief system, to get the Creator out of creation.
Well friends, our chili-pepper eating neighbors to the South have found a way:
Raúl Juliá's son, Mexican government, embrace pseudoscience
No, the Mexican government has not yet officially stated that these ancient spacemen are responsible for creating the human race, but you know that's where this is headed.
Many years ago, before I got saved, I might have easily become a blind devotee of these fanciful notions.
Now, however, the most intriguing thing about this, for me, is the idea that an incredibly complex, comprehensive, and totally false alternate model of human origins and history has managed to gain so much traction.
It's not every day you get to watch a whole belief system grow from nothing into a worldwide phenomena, and it's fascinating to see. What we have here, I think, is a type of secular creationism. Yes, yes, the aliens are functioning as stand-ins for God, and in that sense, you can't truly say this is a completely non-religious thing.
However, the ancient alien craze is still a wide-open field, where anybody is free to put forward any new theory, and numerous contradictory claims happily coexist. This is a belief system which does not yet have a solidly entrenched, official dogma. But it will. Just give it time.
Too bad it will be the wrong dogma.
It's almost funny to see so much scrambling about, and so many wild contortions being performed, in such a desperate bid to supplant a truth so easy to grasp that it can be encapsulated in one simple Bible verse:
Yes, yes, they've gotten lots of mileage out of their "evolution" theory, but in their heart of hearts, evolution makes them nervous, because they intuitively know that it's nothing more than a house of cards. Anybody with just a modicum of scientific training, or even the most rudimentary critical thinking skills, can see that while evolution rests on shaky ground, creationism is unassailable.
As such, creationism, the true account of human origins, is a threat to atheism which just won't go away.
If only there was some way to co-opt creationism. If only there was some way to incorporate "intelligent design" into a godless belief system, to get the Creator out of creation.
Well friends, our chili-pepper eating neighbors to the South have found a way:
Raúl Juliá's son, Mexican government, embrace pseudoscience
A new documentary about Mayan civilization will provide evidence of extraterrestrial contact with the ancient culture, according to a Mexican government official and the film's producer.
"Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond," currently in production, will claim the Mayans had contact with extraterrestrials, producer Raul Julia-Levy revealed to TheWrap.
"Mexico will release codices, artifacts and significant documents with evidence of Mayan and extraterrestrial contact, and all of their information will be corroborated by archaeologists," said Julia-Levy, son of actor Raul Julia.
In a release to TheWrap, Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado, the minister of tourism for the Mexican state of Campeche, said new evidence has emerged "of contact between the Mayans and extraterrestrials, supported by translations of certain codices, which the government has kept secure in underground vaults for some time."
He also spoke, in a phone conversation, of "landing pads in the jungle that are 3,000 years old."
Raul-Julia claims there is proof that the Mayans had intended to lead the planet for thousands of years, but were forced to escape after an invasion by "men of dark intentions," leaving behind evidence of an advanced race.
"The Mexican government is not making this statement on their own -- everything we say, we're going to back it up," he said...
"Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond," currently in production, will claim the Mayans had contact with extraterrestrials, producer Raul Julia-Levy revealed to TheWrap.
"Mexico will release codices, artifacts and significant documents with evidence of Mayan and extraterrestrial contact, and all of their information will be corroborated by archaeologists," said Julia-Levy, son of actor Raul Julia.
In a release to TheWrap, Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado, the minister of tourism for the Mexican state of Campeche, said new evidence has emerged "of contact between the Mayans and extraterrestrials, supported by translations of certain codices, which the government has kept secure in underground vaults for some time."
He also spoke, in a phone conversation, of "landing pads in the jungle that are 3,000 years old."
Raul-Julia claims there is proof that the Mayans had intended to lead the planet for thousands of years, but were forced to escape after an invasion by "men of dark intentions," leaving behind evidence of an advanced race.
"The Mexican government is not making this statement on their own -- everything we say, we're going to back it up," he said...
Many years ago, before I got saved, I might have easily become a blind devotee of these fanciful notions.
Now, however, the most intriguing thing about this, for me, is the idea that an incredibly complex, comprehensive, and totally false alternate model of human origins and history has managed to gain so much traction.
It's not every day you get to watch a whole belief system grow from nothing into a worldwide phenomena, and it's fascinating to see. What we have here, I think, is a type of secular creationism. Yes, yes, the aliens are functioning as stand-ins for God, and in that sense, you can't truly say this is a completely non-religious thing.
However, the ancient alien craze is still a wide-open field, where anybody is free to put forward any new theory, and numerous contradictory claims happily coexist. This is a belief system which does not yet have a solidly entrenched, official dogma. But it will. Just give it time.
Too bad it will be the wrong dogma.
It's almost funny to see so much scrambling about, and so many wild contortions being performed, in such a desperate bid to supplant a truth so easy to grasp that it can be encapsulated in one simple Bible verse:
Genesis 1:26
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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