Overview of Panspermia Gaining Popular Belief
As the theory of evolution loses ground among
academics, the theory rising to replace it is called "Panspermia"
or "Exogenesis" - the idea
that life on earth has it's origins in outer space (see definition
here). While
differing ufo cults claim "their
race" as our designers (and in effect gods), others among the scientific community
have been saying that life was seeded by extra-terrestrial microbes. Here's just one
current article I came across from one of the UK's top internet media sources, which
states
"We don't know where life began, but a kilometer or
two below the surface of Mars seems a good place. How, then, did life get from Mars to
Earth? The answer is straightforward. The same asteroid impacts that made early life so
hazardous also served to splatter vast quantities of Martian rock around the solar system.
A fraction of this hits Earth; indeed, it does so today. So far, a couple of dozen
meteorites have been found that can be traced back to Mars. If there was life on Mars,
then it is possible that some Martian microbes will have hitched a ride inside the ejected
rocks and made their way to Earth. "
https://www.guardian.co.uk
Just hoping I could grab the name for apologetics purposes,
I checked out
www.panspermia.com
- I was 6 years too late. Here's a quick one from their FAQ:
Q. So how did life on Earth originate then, according to
Cosmic Ancestry?
A. Life
on Earth originated when bacterial spores arrived here from space.
By the way, if you've never seen it - or especially if you let
your kids watch it without you being around - the plot of the (suspiciously) G-Rated movie
"Mission to Mars" ends with the astronauts discovering that Martians seeded
earth with all life, before their planet was destroyed and they took off. While the church
reads Grant Jeffrey, Michael Drosnin - author of the original book The Bible Code - ends
his thesis with the idea that the Bible is so advanced mathematically that it could not
have been the product of primitive man, so it had to be written by an alien intelligence.
(Validity of the bible codes aside, millions have bought this book.) Of course
TV's The
X-Files has played the "God is an alien" theme time and time again.
Herald Sun, Columbus Ohio, March 2002
![wpe147.jpg (21805 bytes)](panspnews.jpg) "Children
in Ohio may be taught life was created by aliens under
an education package designed to ditch Darwin's Theory of evolution. The US state is considering adopting the "intelligent design" theory that life is too complex to have simply evolved - as the Darwin Theory suggests. Therefore says the package, life must have been designed by some supernatural being, maybe God, maybe aliens.
It's supporters say
evolution leaves too many questions unanswered. Opponents claim intelligent design is a repackaged version of creationism, which was struck down by courts decades ago."
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So what does it tell you that a word most have never heard
of already has a .com, .net and .org attached to it? Sounds whacky I know, but mark my
words - if you have school aged children now, Panspermia will be in your grandchildren's
college textbooks as "a" if not "the" most plausible
explanation for
our beginnings. The Biblical worldview got pasted with a major uppercut to the chin in
Darwinism. To the eyes of the world the Church is still dizzy and reeling intellectually,
although the "theory of evolution" is simply invalid 1000 times over. For those
who wish to prepare themselves, their churches, their children, etc - I'm here to tell
you, it's a one-two punch. While we're still clearing our heads and putting all our effort
into defending ourselves from evolution, Panspermia is the coming right hook meant to
knock us out.
More info
Did Life's Building Blocks Come From Outer Space?
"Quite a few headlines enthusiastically proclaimed
‘Seeds of life are everywhere’ and ‘Scientists
create life’s building blocks’ These resulted from
two studies where scientists formed amino acids, the
building blocks of proteins, by zapping impure ice,
supposedly matching in..."
https://creation.com/did-lifes-building-blocks-come-from-outer-space
Movie Review: Mission to Mars
"Even though it was classified as "futuristic
science-fiction," I would call it "evolutionary
madness." This movie represents the position to
which a number of evolutionists have already moved,
and where I believe many others will go as time
passes..."
https://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4357news8-4-2000.asp
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The Raelian Religion
See
CARM's series
on the Raelians, and also see our page on
UFO Cults
and the article Deceiving the Elect.
Probably the largest and most influential of all UFO
"groups," they boast 55,000 members in 80 countries.
Their primary doctrine is that all life on earth was
created as a DNA experiment by "The Raelians." This
revelation was given to their founder, when he was
taken aboard a UFO and told that he (and Moses,
Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus) was the product of a hybrid
union between a Raelian and an earth woman, and that
he was to start a new religion proclaiming their
message, as their final prophet. They use the Bible
extensively to make their claims, and say that
cloning is the secret to eternal life. Their site is
www.rael.org
and their primary doctrinal book -
"The True Face of
God" is available on Amazon. (See also
"We Are The Nibiruans"
by Jelaila Starr - "ambassador from the 12th planet,
Nibiru" - for another group with similar claims, and
"The Urantia Book",
as well as the below.)
From an article - Close Encounters of the Raelian
Kind
"Faulkner adds that the Raelians, who claim to have
more than 50, 000 members worldwide, are not the
first religious movement to suggest alien origins.
He explains that
Scientology
believes that human beings were gods that got bored
with existence. "The Scientologists say we have
forgotten our otherworldly origins," he says. "The
task is now to remember to be omnipotent gods
again."
https://novanewsnet.ukings.ns.ca
Worth noting in this context, Mormon
/ LDS doctrine states that God (the Father) was
a normal man on another planet eons ago, who
evolved to become our God. Likewise, good (male)
Mormons are promised their own planet, one day.
They also believe that angels currently travel
to earth from differing planets, and that
Mormonism is the predominant religion throughout
certain galaxies. These unique doctrines should
technically qualify them as the first organized
religion to express at least a "passive faith"
in both ETs and Panspermia, as life on other
planets and the creation of humans by an "alien
God" is assumed by their most fundamental
doctrines.
Scientology - the "Dianetics" religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard - is
also based on his belief in extra-terrestrials.
More here and
here.
Modern Authors
The idea of Panspermia is given a slightly different twist by modern authors
Erich von Daniken and Zechariah Sitchin, both of whom's books have sold in
the double-digit millions. Their ideas are that ancient archeology and texts
prove that primitive man had our DNA "tweaked" by races from the stars,
resulting in homo sapiens, and that most ancient marvels (such as the
Pyramids of Egypt) can be attributed to their intervention. For an amazingly
comprehensive and sound scholarly rebuttal to the claims of Zechariah
Sitchin (author of "The 12th Planet"
and "Genesis Revisited") visit Mike
Heiser's website
www.SitchinIsWrong.com; more on
Von Daniken's in an
article by Gary Bates here.
Don't Join a cult for panspermia indoctrination - just turn on the tube!
Star Trek The Next Generation (TM) Episode, "The Chase" - details the common
origin of popular species from the show, including humans. An extinct race
had created all races from their seed, leaving a message: "... Our
scientists seeded the primordial oceans of many worlds, where life was in
its infancy. The seed codes directed your evolution toward a physical form
resembling ours ... There is something of us in each of you, and so,
something of you in each other."
Star Trek Voyager (TM) also aired an episode where they met a "Reptilian"
race with almost identical DNA to to humans, that had "split off" from the
human evolutionary tree, and left earth for the stars.
The X-Files (TM) "God is an alien" theme tongue-in-cheekily overviewed by
Mac Slocum's excellent
review of the episode "Biogenesis"
/ Much of this episode's relevant dialogue suggests aliens created life on
earth, and wrote the Bible. The entire X-Files series' "mythology arc"
details man's alien origins.
The apparent conclusion is that panspermia is
being indoctrinated into mankind's worldview on
a wide variety of fronts - psuedo-science, "new
religions," popular media and personal
encounters (which collectively brings 1 Timothy
4:1 to mind).
~ See also my past interview response to
"What's Behind
the Beliefs of UFO Cults?"
Rebuttal to panspermia, excerpted from the History of Evolutionary Theory
"At the heart of it, all these life-spores-from-out-of-space theories are
based on the impossibility of life forming by chance on earth. Men have
recognized and accepted the fact, and then tried to bring the life from
somewhere else. All they are doing is pushing the problem back a notch, but
they are not solving it... Here are a few statements on the matter that will
reveal, first, the fantastic notions involved in this theory and, second,
the utter impossibility of it occurring..."
https://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/20hist11.htm
More Christians who know the word Panspermia, and challenge it's premises
ankerberg.com/Articles/science/SC0102W3.htm
Ankerberg Theological research Institute
blueletterbible.org/faq/nbi/610.html
- Scroll to "Life Brought to Earth?"
conservativetruth.org/opinionet/archives2/ccfm/ccfm14.htm
Raelian stuff
creationdefense.org/68.htm
"UFO Cults" aside, who else believes in Panspermia?
The answer may astound you. Check out these
Google search results for "panspermia"
for literally thousands of (ahem) scientific articles...
But for more reliable information (and rebuttals), see
Creation
Ministries International's Alien/UFO articles section.
Fore-warned is fore-armed ~
Yours because His,
Guy Malone
"For the
time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a
great number of teachers to hear what their itching ears want to hear.
They will turn their ears away from truth and will turn aside to myths."
2 Timothy 4:3-4
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