{"id":523,"date":"2010-11-21T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-11-21T17:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T07:06:23","slug":"god-vs-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Gods vs Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Buzz:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are an atheist you must also believe that interstellar transport is impossible.  To believe aliens can visit but then deny a god is completely illogical.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nI assume you think atheists use visiting aliens as an alternative explanation to a god for certain things.  While some might, there is at least one natural explanation for any well-established phenomenon which believers attribute to their gods that doesn&#8217;t involve aliens.  So whether people are atheists doesn&#8217;t have much to do with whether they think we&#8217;ve been visited.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs for those who believe aliens have been here without any evidence to back them up, they&#8217;re in the same boat as people who believe there&#8217;s a god without any evidence to back <em>that<\/em> up, except that the former group are in the minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;there is at least one natural explanation for any well-established phenomenon which believers attribute to their gods that doesn&#8217;t involve aliens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-aliens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-8r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}