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term) is directly proportional to the complexity of the machine. So if living systems are more complex—as Michael Denton stated, "far more complicated than any machine built by man"— then the "instruction manual" to build life will be more detailed. That is, living systems require more information than the one required to build the Space Shuttle or a Cray Super computer! 15+ IN THE 134_ 135 In the 1960s and 1970s, a bizarre twist was introduced to the UFO question when the UFO movement became a focal point of a number of new religious groups. The unifying theme of these UFO churches was identical to those of von Daniken and Sitchin. Life on Earth was delivered or created by extraterrestrials. Earthlings are their children and they are returning in these desperate times, at the end of the 20th century, to instruct and guide their children. According to UFO prophets, they have come to give us the answers we need to solve our problems, to unify our purposes, and to help us evolve to the next stage in our evolutionary process. One of the early but less prominent groups that promotes the notion that God is an ET is the Raelians, which organized in the 1970s. Although the Raelians are a small group, their beliefs are fairly representative of those among religious groups based on a UFO/ET theme. In the mid- 1970s, their leader, Claude Vorilhon (born December 30, 1946) began lecturing in the United States and abroad about his remarkable contact with extraterrestrials. He claimed that his mother, Marie Vorilhon, who was a French citizen, was "selected" by extraterrestrials and inseminated by them on December 25, 1945. Officials of the Raelian movement presented her story: "Just after the first atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima in 1945, the Elohim [the extraterrestrials] selected Marie Colette Vorilhon to be his mother. She was born in Ambert on the 22, October 1922. On December the 25, 1945, they took her inside a UFO and inseminated her. - They We ek De Le ee ee ee te en Le then erased it from her memory $0 as not to psychologically unbalance her, and on the 30th September 1946 Rael [Claude Vorilhon] was born from this union."!°° After a rather uneventful childhood, Claude Vorilhon claimed, he was contacted by one of the extraterrestrials on December 13, 1973. He claims that while he was hiking near his home in France, on a foggy overcast day, he saw a blinking red light, something like a helicopter hovering nearby. As he approached the craft he noticed a small, childlike occupant. The being was smiling, and there was a glow around his body. On the pilot's green suit was a symbol of a star of David with a swastika in the middle of it. Vorilhon claimed this creature spoke to him in his native 80 Moreover, the foundational principle of information theory is that information, instructions, blueprints, do not and cannot arise by chance. So even if a DNA molecule (or a substitute suitable for carrying information) could arise by spontaneous Darwin-like chance chemical processes, it _ Leen - 18s would be void of information.'°° Consequently, since the molecules of life and the information carried by the DNA molecule cannot arise by chance within our cosmos, then the source of living systems must have been an intelligent, extradimensional one—beyond the bounds of space and time. THE NEW AGE VIEW BEGINNING ET? THE CHURCH OF ET THE RAELIANS