Do athiests believe in aliens?

Answer 1

Some do, some don't, but a belief in aliens doesn't factor in to a belief (or non-belief) or God

Answer 2

Given that there are over 100 billion galaxies, life on a million planets would mean that one galaxy out of every 100,000 would have one planet out of billions that had life on it and none of those would be able to reach us in any reasonable time. Even travel in our galaxy is beyond any of our current technology and it is very unlikely that we will ever be able to travel fast enough to reach other stars. While it seems likely that life could have developed on any number of planets and perhaps on planets that we could not survive on, we simply do not know enough about xeno-evolution to be able to tell if intelligence is likely or if it is how many intelligent species develop technology. However, your claims about the Egyptians and "aliens helping to build the pyramids" have long been debunked, for example we know a great deal about how the Egyptians built the pyramids, how the workers were housed and fed (their bread was made in a sort of pre-production line fashion) and have hieroglyphs on the pyramids stones showing that human teams quarried, transported and placed them (as well as had a great deal of pride in doing so). While there may be a few real UFO cases that still remain unidentified, the majority do not indicate anything remotely alien. Perhaps the best comment on UFO sightings is that in the original one, the reporter made a mistake and described the UFO as "saucer shaped", from then on, all the sightings of UFOs were "saucer shaped", even though the original sight-er described the craft as a flying wing. Edit: There are many problems with aliens visiting the earth, the first being the huge distances between stars and the constraints placed by relativity on what speeds are achievable. The other major problem is that while the media loves to spin a good story, they tend to fall light years short of actually examining the facts or coming close to telling the actual story.

Answer 3

The thing about atheists is that we don't all feel pressure to believe the same thing and think the same way. I think alien life is probably a good possibility, given the size of the universe. But I don't sit worrying what aliens are doing. If they're out there, okay. If not, okay.

Answer 4

I can only tell you what THIS atheist believes.

Do I believe in aliens as the little gray men with big eyes who kidnapped Whitley Streiber et. al. and performed experiments on them? No, I don't. There's not enough evidence or logical reasoning to make me think that they exist. I also don't believe in the "Chariots of Fire" nonsense, that ancient peoples were placed here and guided by alien beings.

I acknowledge that there is probably life outside of our planet, but its probably not nearly as complex as we would think. Micro-organisms and things like that. Also, if life developed here on this planet, its not such a hard stretch of the imagination that it could have developed somewhere else, but of course at this moment there is no proof of that. The likelihood does exist, however.

Answer 5

Who Created the Aliens???

Answer 6

Some do. I'm an Agnostic and I believe in aliens, though I don't believe they've ever visited this planet.

Answer 7

Some athieists probably do, but being an atheist does not mean that they believe in aliens as an antithesis to a belief in God or any other so-called supreme being.

Answer 8

I'm an atheist. I think it not outside of the realms of possibility that life will start up or has already started or has started and ended on another planet.

Given the timeframe and sheer size of the universe, I do think it unlikely that we will ever meet. And they're certainly not here right now abducting people.

Answer 9

I find a lack of sufficient credible information one way or the other.

However, that has nothing to do with being an atheist. Atheism is one thing and one thing only -- active denial of the existence of a deity, or, passive nonacceptance of the existence of any deities (there is a subtle but important semantic difference).

Answer 10

Some do. Others don't. Aliens are not gods.