@Booley: Nope. They're the same people that outright deny that magic exists while simultaneously believing in a being that magically created everything.
I think that's a fallacy.
Believing in aliens does not mean you must also believe in Santa for example. It is perfectly possible to believe in one thing that others consider to be supernatural. Neither does believing religion X mean that you must also believe in all other religions for example.
Nonono, you misunderstand me. They literally say "magic isn't real" while believing in a being that can only logically exist thru magic. The disconnect is
theirs in that they completely deny the obviously magical machinations of their own deity as being magical, because they don't believe in magic, while simultaneously believing in a god that does magic. If an act, such as creating light
before there's anything to
emit said light, can't logically be done inside the framework of science, then it stands to reason that the explanation must therefore rely on magic.
It is incongruous to both hold that there is no magic, while believing in a being whose very existence can only logically be due to magic. Its not "there's no Wiccan magic" or "there's no Voodoo magic," but "there's no magic, at all." Yes, this is a phenomenon I've encountered exclusively in the Abrahamic faiths' practitioners. If one kind of magic exists, then magic exists, in at least one form.
Also, there's no "believing" in aliens. There are aliens, we simply haven't encountered them, yet, that we know of. By the Law of Large Numbers: if one event can occur, then if the sample space is large enough, it must be able to happen again. The universe is incredibly large, and it'd make sense that we're not the only sapient, technological species out there. Besides, if we were, then the universe would be incredibly boring, no?