The atheists will say that the heavens do not declare
anything to anyone about anyone.
Some atheists allow for the possibility that superintelligent-advanced-civilisation-aliens
from elsewhere in the cosmos may communicate with us and may even visit us.
Perhaps they do!
Some atheists allow for the idea that life on earth may have
been seeded here on purpose by extra-terrestrial intelligences. Perhaps it was!
Some atheists will suggest that a sexual union might be possible with such alien visitors. Perhaps it is!
Their rules about these possibilities however are that the origin of life and intelligence has to be from within the confines of naturalism. The explanation of the origin of any possible intelligence and any possible life elsewhere in the cosmos has to be an explanation within the materialist dogma:
MatteràLifeàIntelligence
It has to be unintelligent life that leads to the origin of intelligence
It has to be non-living material that leads to the origin of
life.
The basic foundational dogma is that the ground state of being
has to be non-living and unintelligent.
Material existence is the only existence allowed… (Apart from the existence of information, negentropy, beauty, goodness and truth…. The sort of beautiful and wonderful stuff people produce!)
The realities of life and intelligence have to begin to exist within the cosmos, within the space-time/mass-energy reality that we call “the universe” and “nature”- within the “laws of nature”. The basic rule of the atheists is that life and intelligence cannot always be. Life and intelligence are realities that can only come to be. Life and intelligence can only be material. Material reality is all the reality that there is. (Apart from the existence of information, negentropy, beauty, goodness and truth…. The sort of beautiful and wonderful stuff people produce!)
The basic dogma of atheism is that there cannot be any self-existent
non-material living intelligence… for ever and ever Amen. There cannot be any
non-material being for ever and ever. Amen.
This is the basic rule of atheism. This is not a rule of
science however and never has been.
The problem comes when atheism makes this a rule of science.
This rule is just as much a “religious” rule as the arbitrarily imposed rule
that science has to be theistic. Let there be robust debate about what
intelligence is. Let there be robust debate about what the reality of evil
means. Let there not be a basic rule about life and intelligence
that only permits a
Eternal SomethingàSomone Cosmos
as opposed to a
Eternal SomeoneàSomething Cosmos
The only rule of science that I am aware of is that we have
to tell the truth about what our senses tell us. If that rule goes then science
goes with it.
Let this basic decision be argued
and decided on the basis of empirical evidence not simply imposed by dictat
from by an unelected scientific elite.
In other words if you want atheism to win you have to do the
hard work of making the case properly in cosmology and in physics, and in biology
and in psychology and in sociology and in philosophy and in logic and in
language. This means facing honestly the real problems with the origin of
negentropy and with the origin of life research and the origin of biological
information. These are real problems and it is no service to true science to
pretend them away.
Nor is it serving true science to pretend that that the
origin of semantic information is an easy problem to solve or a trivial one
either. Simply pretending that science means atheism is just not going to work
in the long run. In the end real science is all about telling the truth. In the
end scientific atheists have to admit that truth is not at its root a material
entity. Personal reality does seem to have a problem when you try to cage it
inside material reality. There seems to be something real there that does not
belong in the cage!
