Do atheists believe in UFO's?

Question

If you do, Why? There is no hard evidence to support the idea? No concrete proof? Only hear-say and science, so far, says NO. Any thoughts on that belief system?

Answer 1

Atheists are people who deny who they are. They will never know the truth till they leave this world, and then they will find out how misguided they really were.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure atheists believe that UFO's are not God, because they do not believe in God. However, I cannot say whether they believe that UFO's are the spacecraft of visitors from alien worlds any more than a Christian or Muslim might believe such a thing. The sad thing about this is that there is so much hucksterism and so many hoaxes perpetrated in the name of UFO/alien sighting, that there is unlikely to be any real scientific activity in this field. It is just not scientifically respectable to give credence to the idea that alien spacecraft are visiting Earth and making contact with Earthlings. This, of course, does not prove that it isn't happening, but there is such a smokescreen of popular culture and crackpottery associated with it that it isn't likely to be seriously studied for a long time beyond the astronomical and SETI realms (slow and nondirected in relative terms). Anecdotal evidence isn't good enough, and no one is brave enough to set the machinery of science in motion to systematically study whether or not aliens are visiting Earth. So I guess I'm agnostic on that point, too.

P.S. The only way I can think to tie religion and UFO's is to subscribe to the panspermia theory, that life on Earth originated on an alien world and was transplanted here. But this automatically begs the question of "who created the aliens," and doesn't really answer the basic problem beyond placing a "creator" or the origins of life without a creator on another planet instead of Earth.

Answer 3

It's a totally separate issue than atheism since UFOs are physical objects. Some believe in UFOs and some don't, they are still atheists either way. It would be like asking if they believe there is such a thing as a deep sea giant squid, you could just come up with a list of a billion questions but it doesn't mean they are or aren't atheists. Some people might only believe in what they've seen or experienced first hand but that's not atheism (which only deals with the that style of belief as far as the whole nature of the universe thing, not specific physical objects like UFOs).

Answer 4

No. I don't believe in UFO's. Wait, I do believe there have been unidentified flying objects. But, just because something is unidentified doesn't make it from outer space. I don't believe we are being visited by little green men. No. I think this is just a silly. Do I think there is life on other planets. That I can not say. Even if it's only bacterial. Also, what constitutes as life. We are carbon based and we have our definition here on earth that you have to breath, need energy, whatever all the criteria. Really late and can't remember them. My point is, other planets may have things with consciousness or that are living by do not follow the same biological make up and chemistry rules we have. But I digress.

Answer 5

Atheists share common skeptical concerns regarding supernatural claims, citing a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of deities.

One would think that Atheists would use those same guidelines toward the belief in the existence of extra terrestrial intelligent life. Which at this time there is a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of extra terrestrial intelligent life. So in theory an Atheist should believe equally in a God and E.T.

However an Atheist would argue that there is a higher probability of E.T. existing than a God.

A far more interesting question to ask is do Atheists subscribe to "Theory M"? A highly controversial and also mathematically probable.....highly probable. "Theory M". For which there is no traditional empirical evidence besides mathematical. Solid Mathematical. (Steven Hawking is on board).

Theory M states that there is an infinite number of parallel universes. Ones ranging from very similar to ours (except Napoleon won the war) and all the way through the flip side (where there are neutrons or electrons missing resulting in a cosmic soup). This is possible through the discovery of the 11th dimension in which all matter in our universe in interconnected in a near infinite number of points (strings), creating a membrane, one which connects our entire universe. Alongside our membrane scientists discovered other such membranes as well, thousands, milions, billi....well turns out an infinite amount. Some touching, intersecting and ultimatley colliding. A new Membrane is sparked - one which will brew and materialize and if sufficient building essentials are present and will continue expanding to cosmic proportions. Filled with quasars, stars, gas clouds, galazies engulfed in chaotic brewing. All during which it will not take up any of our present cosmic real-estate. A bubble in an ocean of bubbles.

Atheists who are savvy in physics and science are very interested, a LOT of people are.

Ifinite possibilities, a possibility of generating new membranes, maybe manipulation? The graviton? Super gravity? (Gravity transects all verses. Our gravity is ambient, a residual effect)

Anything is possible -M Theory legitimizes one celled-organisms, E.T, an Ultimate Creator and everything in between. Belief in one and not the others is CONTRADICTORY.

Scientific proof. Biatch.

Answer 6

I have seen no testable evidence of alien visitation or interstellar vehicles visiting earth. We are an insignificant planet in an uninteresting corner of a very average galaxy that is doubtless full of intelligent life, who if they have interstellar travel capability, could surely find something more interesting than a planet full of beings that are scarcely out of the cave, and in some countries, still in the caves.That said, the fact that we are familiar with intelligent life forms that have a physical existence we can measure and confirm, and we know the cosmos is rich in organic compounds, we actually have much more grounds for believing in alien visitors than believing in Canaanite mountain gods. Nevertheless, I am not an atheist because I don't want to believe, but because I am an empiricist and there is no grounds for belief, either in gods, or in visiting interstellar vehciles and their occupants. I would be thrilled to have testable, verifiable and repeatable evidence of either.

Answer 7

UFOs? Do you mean aliens that have been seen on Earth? Or just aliens in general?

I believe that there has to be intelligent life somewhere in the universe besides Earth. The Milky Way has at least a billion stars. There are at least a billion galaxies. Even if the chance for life were 1 to one billion, there would still be 1 billion planets able to support life.

Answer 8

No, but there is probability pointing to life existing elsewhere in the universe, very high probability actually, so I don't dismiss the idea. A deity, not so much. I don't believe in anything, beliefs are an excuse to turn the brain on auto-pilot. A brain that does not question is clinically dead.

Answer 9

just like christians, some do and some dont. i'd say your asking if an athiest can believe in ufo's why cant they believe in god? Our universe is so hugh, so unexplored by us, why should we think we are the only form of life out there? That is called common sense.

Answer 10

I'm sure many atheists (myself included) believe there is life elsewhere in the universe. That life, if intelligent enough to have developed space travel, would also have the intelligence to realize space travel outside ones own system is not the way to go about meeting ones neighbor. A simply radio wave can accomplish the same thing much more quickly without bankrupting the society.

Answer 11

i believe there is life elsewhere in the universe, whether it be unicelled or multicelled. while i view all ufo sightings with extreme skeptisism they at least dwell more in the relm of realism than a being that governs all life in the universe. so it isnt hard evidence that i really look for, but more "is it possible by the laws logic" that i look for