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Above all, why do they do it? If they want to communicate with the human race, why leave strange patterns in fields that few people see? If their technology is good enough to bring them to Earth, it is surely also so advanced that it can identify the primary forms of communication that we humans use. Why should the aliens both avoid world leaders and refrain from using some form of language that human beings could understand? Occam's Razor - common sense - suggests that humans were far more likely to be behind crop circles than aliens. Not surprisingly that explanation was confirmed in the early 1990s when some people confessed to making many crop circles and demonstrated how they had done so. Occam's Razor can also be applied to other alien "manifestations". Many people believe that visitors from space visit Earth not only to mess up our fields but to abduct specimen humans for perform bizarre experiments or they come occasionally to give this or that human civilisation a kick-start. Here too Occam's Razor can be applied, since for every alien visitation there is always a simpler and more likely natural explanation. (Applying Occam's Razor to the 9/11 conspiracy theories discussed in Section 4 underlines the absurdity of the idea that the US government engineered the attack. If the theory is true, who in the government circles ordered this bizarre event? why did they want to kill so many of their own citizens? who planted the explosive devices in the World Trade Center that apparently caused the buildings to tumble? how did they do it without alerting WTC security? how is that none of the hundreds, if not thousands of men and women aware of this conspiracy have never come forward to admit their role in it? And so on and so on. Common sense tells us that the conspiracy theories are false and what we all know - it was a terrorist attack - is true.) Occam's Razor can also be applied to God and the universe. If God is not necessary to explain the universe, common sense says that God does not exist. On the other hand, most believers use Occam's Razor to come to the opposite conclusion - God is a simpler explanation of the origins of the universe than the idea that it has always existed. On the face of it, this viewpoint is reasonable, but the more it is investigated, the more it falls apart. So many questions arise - why did God make so many mistakes in the development of species? how can God's internally incompatible nature be explained? where did God come from? and so on - that the self-existing universe is seen to be the simpler and more likely explanation. We will return later to the specific question of God and Occam's Razor. For the moment, let's stick with one point: the simplest interpretation is almost always the best. Next: Introduction: Section 9 Science and knowledge 
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If God existed, he would... admire the beauty of a universe that he did not create recognize that eternity is meaningless deny both heaven and hell disown all men and women who speak in his name denounce the harm caused by religious "morality" help the human race to thrive without him If God existed, he would be an atheist.
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