From a netfriend:

Some brief comments on the meeting with Raelians.

It was the weirdest meeting I have ever attended.

It started with the first speaker claiming that the Hebrew word "elohim" doesn't mean "God", as in all translations of the Bible I have ever read, but "those who come from the sky", and from then on it was all downhill.

These "elohim" were very clever scientists from another planet, who came here, in UFOs, and proceeded to create all the life forms we see around us.

In Genesis 6 we read about the sons of God taking wives of the sons of men.

This, according to the Raelians, means that the scientists (sons of the Elohim) engaged in hanky-panky with the women they had created. Their masters back on the home planet got quite uptight about this, and decided to destroy the earth by using nuclear weapons.

The scientists got word of this and persuaded Noah to build a spaceship to take all the living forms they had created out into space so that they wouldn't be destroyed.

And they've solved the problem about space on the ark - what Noah actually took on board was just a single cell, one each, male and female, of all living organisms, and after the radioactivity from the destruction had died down Noah landed his spaceship "Ark" and all the organisms were re-created.

You get the point?

There is nothing so crazy that some otherwise quite intelligent people won't accept as the absolute truth.

February 2006