I'm old enough to remember when Bill Maher was a Christian Fundamentalist comedian.
wouldn't surprise me in the least if he ended up one of David Icke's followers.
The idea of reptilian gods is not new in mythology - neither is the idea that the gods were extra terrestrials .
both reptilian and ET gods are through out Oriental, Hindu and Native American myths.
Bill is trying to make it look like David is coming up with this stuff all on his own, like he is a unique nut.
Granted a great deal of religious views do sound extremely wacky and spawned from a mind on an acid trip.
but how many ancient creation myths ended up sounding like what eventually science said is how things came into being -
the big bang sounds like Genesis, String and M theory and the multiverse - sounds like Hindu creation stories.
and a good number of scientists, including Bill's Buddy Richard Dawkins, seriously have considered Directed Panspermia, the theory that life could have been seeded on the Earth by Aliens.
Now I am as cynical about the science fiction theories as I am the mythological theories. but at the same time I have to stop and look at what might actually be the real story behind them, and acknowledge that they do occasionally resemble something out of hard science. -
it would be nice if Occam's razor was true, but as science often proves, the Universe operates in ever increasing levels of complexity.
I think it is hypocritical of Evangelical Atheists to slam the religious beliefs of others no matter how wacky, when they themselves have there own creation and explanation myths that by their own standards should sound equally as wacky.
For me an ideal intellectual on the subject of ideology, faith and what is commonly referred to as reason, is David Berlinski, mathematician and a huge critic of the evangelical atheist movement and what he sees as the Atheist creation myth of Darwinian evolution. (and he is an atheist)