My famous colleague, noted Harvard evolutionist, Stephen J. Gould, once said that we humans were but a “fortuitous cosmic afterthought, just a cosmic accident”. Another of my heroes and role models as a young man, noted scientist, Carl Sagan, also said that ‘the cosmos is all that it is or ever will be.” He wrote that “only by the most extraordinary coincidence that the cosmic slot machine has this time come up with a universe that works.” Thus my two intellectual champions, Gould in evolution and Sagan in astronomy, both believed in a blind chance universe in which we arose from a primordial soup by extraordinary fortune. They were both non believing, secular Jews as was I, and that probably added to their allure.

The Brookings Institute was asked by NASA in 1960 to think through the impact that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would have not only on religion but on science as well. They found interestingly enough that scientists would be most devastated because their entire scientific paradigm is based on the Darwinian mythology and even though there are countless challenges to it, nobody wants to tell the emperor that he has no clothes. It would devastate our scientific mindset and educational system.

Noted British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle mathematically dismissed the chance of Darwinism evolution being a natural occurrence, arguing that even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup (which it doesn’t) the chance of producing merely the basic enzymes of life by random processes without intelligent direction would be one over one with 40,000 zeroes-too small to imagine. He believed therefore that Darwinian evolution was an unlikely absurdity and instead he was a proponent of the modern theory of panspermia where life on earth originated somewhere else in the cosmos.

Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the double stranded helix of DNA, also believed that the earth was too young to have developed evolutionarily. Crick’s aversion to religion led him to put forth the theory of Directed Panspermism. He got around the concept of God by stating that life on earth was brought here billions of years ago on spaceships by more intelligent beings.

Even the atheist, secular humanist, skeptic, rationalist, and current leading proponent of Darwinian evolution and leading critic of Intelligent Design, scientist Richard Dawkins when interviewed by Ben Stein for his new movie Expelled said amazingly that “perhaps life on earth was seeded by extraterrestrials.”

Leading secular humanist, atheistic scientists like Hoyle and Crick and now even Dawkins seem to be closing the door on the blind chance of Darwinian evolution and opening the door ever so slightly on intelligent design from the heavens above. In my mind it is only a small step (okay maybe not so small) from creation via an extraterrestrial alien entity to creation by God in the heavens. Both are not from this earth and are indeed extraterrestrial.

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