This interview never happened, but in a universe where it did, it went like this…
*The familiar Art Bell theme music fades in as the show opens*
Art Bell: *in a hushed, dramatic tone* Good evening, my friends. Welcome to Coast to Coast AM, where we explore the strange, the unusual, and the unexplained. Tonight, we have a truly remarkable guest who is going to reveal to us the shocking truth about the origins of life on Earth.
*Camera pans to Dr. Yazeb, sitting across from Art in the dimly lit studio*
Art: Dr. Yazeb, thank you for joining us on the program tonight. I understand you have made some startling discoveries about the true nature of our solar system’s formation. Can you tell our listeners what you have uncovered?
Dr. Yazeb: *leans in, speaking in a serious, measured tone* Well Art, after years of research and careful analysis of the evidence, I can say with confidence that the conventional theories about the formation of our solar system simply do not hold up. The truth is, there is no other explanation that fits the data other than the intervention of a superior, technologically advanced civilization.
Art: *eyes widening* A superior civilization? You mean…extraterrestrials?
Dr. Yazeb: *nods solemnly* Yes, Art. According to the knowledge we have, life on Earth was seeded by beings from another world – what the Raelian movement refers to as the “Elohim”.
Art: *leans forward* The Raelian movement? Tell us more about that. Who are they and what do they believe?
*Camera shifts to Kobi Drori, sipping hot chocolate in a dimly lit Tel Aviv cafe*
Kobi Drori: *speaking calmly* The Raelian movement believes that life on Earth was created by advanced extraterrestrial scientists, who made humans “in their own likeness”. We see clues to this truth hidden within the texts of major religions, if you know where to look.
For example, the Hebrew word “Elohim” – which is often translated as “God” – actually means “Messengers” or “those who came from the sky”. And the word “Adonai” is a plural, referring not to a single supreme deity, but to multiple “Lords” – the Elohim, our true creators.
Art: *eyes wide* This is absolutely fascinating. So you’re saying that the foundational stories and texts of our major religions actually point to an extraterrestrial origin of life on Earth?
Kobi: *nods* That’s correct, Art. The biblical accounts of angelic beings arriving from the sky, the descriptions of advanced technology – these are all misinterpreted references to the Elohim, the scientists who seeded our planet with life.
Art: *leans back, contemplative* Wow. This is really mind-bending stuff, my friends. If what you’re saying is true, it would completely upend our understanding of human origins and the very foundations of our civilizations.
*Looks directly at camera* Stay tuned, Coast to Coast listeners. We’ll be right back to explore this incredible revelation further, after a short break.
*Art Bell theme music fades in as the camera pulls back, cutting to commercial*
This is a complete revamp of an article I posted Nov 21, 2005. Tonight, missing the Art Bell shows, I decided to use a few modern tools to create the interview above. Hope you enjoyed it.
6 comments
This still doesn’t answer the question where did life come from? That life came to planet earth from aliens is beside the point. The question still stands, where did life originate? Saying it got here from outside the atmosphere of earth just pushes the question back not solve it!
Hi Keb,
From what I’ve read, life could have originated on Earth, on another planet, or inside comets with nothing but raw materials, physical processes and chemistry as the source.
Okay, perhaps a dumb question: If we can take both sides to the extreme without any gray area in-between: Creationists with the agnostic and gnostic on one side (which is the point of this post, to ask who these alien scientists or elohim were) and the atheist on the other side.
Isn’t this the real conflict between the two?
Whether there was an intelligence that produced life or were natural compounds introduced by whatever means, in a by the chance way, which made life possible on a world where life could be supported?
It seems to me the only question is, how it was done…by either side. (An over simplification perhaps.)
If abiogensis is the study of how the amino acids were produced and combined on the earth and the creaitionists say life was created on the earth by a god or gods; then the only difference between the two is how it was done. So isn’t the real question: Did chemistry produce the acids and proteins or did an intelligence cause the chemical process? According to science life is a self replicating cycle as long as the environment will sustain it. So it stands to reason that chemical reactions are the cause of life but the same question remains…was it an intelligence that set up the process and made conditions right for the process or were conditions correct just by a flip of the dice? A meteorite or asteroid may contain the compounds but life cannot be sustained in either environment. Since it was caused by a chemical process then perhaps the atheist as well as the creationist can both agree: ‘Yes, it was chemical but we do not agree on the origins.”
Therefore my same comment persists, where did life originate? To say it may be in a dozen or so galaxies on a myriad of planets still does not answer when it started and how. To say it was recombined when the galaxies waned and re-exploded, just one example of the many theories out there, still gives no origin. I am saying, yes, I believe a chemical reaction occurred, that I have no argument with. What I don’t understand are these absolute faiths in theories stated by either side saying that any opposing view has no ‘fallible’ argument. It’s the same as making an absolute statement about there not being any absolutes. I believe there are arguments on both sides that neither can casually discard.
Does that make sense?
It does make sense, and thanks for leaving this comment. It seems to me that even if we are able to get life started in a model of a primordial environment, proving it could have happened by chance, we still will not know if that is the way it happened. It gets into cosmology. If the universe is an endless cycle, then the most advanced life forms from the previous cycle may have set up the chemical reactions to spawn life in this cycle. We can only speculate, but I enjoy doing so.
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