Agnosticism / Atheism

  1. Home
  2. Religion & Spirituality
  3. Agnosticism / Atheism
photo of Austin Cline

Austin's Atheism Blog

By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Discussion: Alien Abductions and Child Molestation

Wednesday June 21, 2006
A forum member writes: Admittedly, I do think there is intelligent life in the universe besides us. I doubt it would be a common occurrence throughout the universe but the odds are decent enough for it to happen elsewhere. And there could be a civilization that is advanced enough to have achieved interstellar travel. ... However, I doubt they would make a habit out of visiting earth all that much, if at all. ... And what is up with the anal probe deal anyway? I have to say, if there is an advanced civilization out there whose sole purpose in life is to travel the galaxy to give people anal probes that's just going too far. That's not right. I've heard that all life fills a niche in some way but that's ridiculous!

It is difficult to treat claims of alien abductions as being even remotely credible. There’s nothing going for them aside from the passion of believers - not unlike religion. Read More...

Comments

June 25, 2006 at 9:25 pm
(1) Tin Foil Hat says:

George Bush and that Dick Chaney are aliens who are giving the whole country an anal probe.

Leave a Comment

Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

Discuss

Community Forum

Explore Agnosticism / Atheism

More from About.com

Agnosticism / Atheism

  1. Home
  2. Religion & Spirituality
  3. Agnosticism / Atheism

©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.