Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers

by Raël

Years ago, people knew without a doubt that the Earth was flat. Even the top scientists of the day were certain that the sun revolved around the earth. Today, most people are sure that life on Earth is either the result of random evolution or a supernatural God. Or is it? In 'Intelligent Design', Rael presents us with a third option: that life on Earth was created by advanced human scientists from another world. In 1973, Rael was visited by one of these designers, who dictated a series of messages to him to share with all of humanity. This astonishing 'message from the designers' reveals knowledge on science, religion, love, relationships, government, meditation, infinity, sensuality, eternal life, and so much more, giving us the secrets to the past, present, and future of mankind...

Genres: Nonfiction, Research

414 pages, Paperback

Published March 20, 2006

About the author

Born Claude Vorilhon, former race driver and songwriter. Nowadays he is the spiritual leader of the Rael movement, which is considered a UFO religion.

The Rael movement believes in free sex, cloning people and that extra-terrestials created mankind on earth.

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be great if it were fiction.

[Ricardo Robles · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, I decided to stop reading this because like all religion books I've read (The Bible included), in the second part it became contradictory with the first part. This one also got very Sci-Fi and became very weird (to me, personally) altough that made it a little more interesting.

I'll probably finish reading this later when I get my iPhone back from service, since I was reading it on it.

For a good knowledge of this Raelian religion, it's a good book. At least, up till I read it, it does not try to adoctrinate the reader into it.

[Brett · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book will expand the Universe of all possibilities about the origins of life on Earth. If you believe that advanced life may exist in the Universe, then this is a must read as Rael shares his journey and mission to save mankind from self destruction and expand happiness and pleasure in your life.

This book is a must read if you want to understand the worldwide Raelian movement. Even critiques struggle to criticize their beautiful beliefs and down to Earth philosophy where pleasure is accepted as the motive that drives all humanity, where pleasure is shamelessly embraced, a gift from Elohim or those from above.

I enjoyed this book very much and encourage you to read it with a sincere heart, with pure intent, and then take the blasphemy challenge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqtkJU...

From the author:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Injgkh...

[Ross Blocher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Guidebook to an amusing new religion created by a French man named Claude Vorilhon who now goes by "Rael" or "The Maitreya". This book is composed of three books he'd published previously, telling the story of his visitation by aliens (and his later trip to their planet) where he learns that humanity and all life was seeded on our planet by scientists from an intelligent race of aliens who look just like us. We are created in their image, just as the traditional Biblical narrative leads us to believe about a supernatural God. This book claims not to promote the supernatural, but says that our Intelligent Design is from perfectly natural scientific predecessors, who were themselves created by another race of predecessors, and so on. Rael's interpretations of Biblical quotations in the light of his alien hypothesis are creative and entertaining, but ultimately inconsistent with reality.

[Carrie Poppy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Silly.

[Amin Mo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Only reason I’m giving this 5 stars is that I always rate non-fiction books on knowledge I gain, and this book gave me an enough chunk of knowledge about Raëlism.
But other than that, this book (and religion) was written by Claude Raël for one of two reasons:
1) Materialistic gain be that money or fame
2) To spread his personal ideas and believes with the world.
Probably the first.
The message of the Raëlism for Claude Raël is on how to improve the earth and stop violence and manage it properly. The means to do that according to Raël are all pacifist mean, like stop war, end capitalism, love earth other, end racism, and basically ton of bullshit pacifist cliches.
You can easily see that he is lying with the toms of contradictions he presents and with the first pages of him telling about his first encounter, he describes the spaceship which he saw with a description IDENTICAL to what we see in movies when everything we see in movies are fictions people made.
When it comes to the beliefs of the movement, I disagree with pretty much 95% of it. Only thing I agree with is “geniocracy” which means that the country should be run by the intelligent not all the people AKA no democracy. This however could only work theoretically and can’t be practical.

[Tinylittlewars · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is one of the most ridiculous pieces of disinformative nonsense I have ever encountered. This one may very well have been put out there simply to disrupt and further discredit any legitimate work relating to the subjects at hand (i.e. ETs, intelligent design theories, the acquisition of knowledge through unconventional means/sources, etc).. It does have the typical low rent feel of a CIA concoction-- but then again, in light of its outlandish, ham-handed attempts at establishing a basis for "Jewish" superiority throughout, it could just as easily be the Mossad!
Bottom line: the only suitable place for this book is the back of a toilet, where it can be properly recycled as either a laxative (via gut busting laughter 🤣) or an emergency ass wipe-- at least that way someone might get some use out of it!

[Abish · Rating 1 out of 5]

Load of bollocks! Such a waste of time. It ranks terribly even for science fiction. Can’t see the difference between him and fake spiritual gurus. Everything about this book is in achievable though at times it looks like he’s tried to make some point but lacks any intelligence or design to bring the ideas to fruition. All intelligent design it talks about is to give it up to higher power. Now way some people think this is the most important book for those who have been indoctrinated to this religion. This book really made me think burning books in Nazi Germany. This is not a liberating book but a confining one. The less of it out there the better. And anyone opposed to him will “see their life become hell?” Appalling attempt at threatening those who can’t tolerate this crap.

[Honeythug · Rating 5 out of 5]

If You don't see it as a science fiction book, is a bit shockin. Humans from other planets, far more evolved than our race made us like puppets and "throwing a dice", a two sided one: distroy the human race on Earth or let them be.
If you read Enoch's book and other religious documents mentioned in the text, part of it makes sense about what's exposed in the Holly Bible.
But if we consider as true the evolved humans from another planet and the goal they set for us, evolving our race to their level, following their rules...it's not my ultimate desire to become like the supreme race, a lack of heart one, of love, so to speak

[Rishi Gangoly · Rating 5 out of 5]

The information in the book is so huge and covers so many aspects of life on earth

I've read this book 3 times already and will keep reading it so that the concepts become clearer and clearer.

I've very lucky and fortunate to have stumbled across this book in my lifetime.

I hope more and more people read this book and help the world become a better place for everyone.

[N.K. Aning · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a waste of my time. Just a product of overactive imagination being sold off as a bunch of truth. The only excuse for such unconvincing lies is the mention of infinity. The author uses infinity just to justify his absurd notions.

[Arthur B · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first half of the foundational book of the Raëlian movement resembles numerous other contactee works; the second half is notable mostly for the sheer unmitigated audacity of its claims. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...

[Apimeleki Dakuitoga · Rating 5 out of 5]

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. THANK YOU RAEL FOR THE ENLIGHTMENT ON REALITY.

[Sayed Ahmed · Rating 1 out of 5]

لو كان يمكنني تقييم الكتاب بالسالب لفعلت، مضيعة للوقت وإن اقتنع أحدٌ بسببه في اعتناق الديانة الرائية فعلى الدنيا السلام.

[Elena Olympia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the book for its alternative societal management suggestions. I was a bit weirded out flipping between Genesis and space lasers at the start. Also found the 6 a-la-cart women bit a little cringeworthy. But when it comes to the aliens created us theory, the book makes more sense than the bible.

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want to be very clear that even though there are copious reports of Raël abusing his position and acting like a general piece of shite, the MESSAGE that’s put forth in this book is certainly one to listen to. Unfortunately, humans tend to look at the messenger and ignore the message, so I’m trying to avoid that here. “I point to the moon and you look at my finger,” a famous saying goes. Look at the moon.

[Vishal Raelian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not just book, its truth. It changes my life and it is still changing my life, when i think positive about mankind. I learn to control myself.In this book, Rael has already said that its not messenger who matters, its message that matters and person who sent it matters. But people do the same mistakes by finding faults in messenger, it is worthless. Our father has designed this message in such a way so that only nice and kind people will follow this message not messenger. If the person is really facing lot of problems, he will find true saint and will follow him. All the rivers flows into the sea.
Love, Light and Peace
Raelians

[Yazan · Rating 1 out of 5]

An interesting story attempting to merge spirituality and atheism into one new world alien religion. Tried to answer lots of unanswered questions in a smart way. I've to admit that when I first started reading the book the story was almost flawless but still, lots of gaps and it doesn't answer the hard questions. if you do some more research you're going to find out that Raelism is nothing more than a smart cult. I gave it one star but I still recommend reading it because it was fun.

[Marina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book in Croatian, thinking it was sci-fi. Once I realized what it was, I obviously didn't read the whole thing, but I was still curious so I read some parts here and there to see what this religion is like. Let's see whether their guide to telepathy works :)

[Comelibros]

El libro de una de las sectas ateas, más secretas. No me gusto nada.

[Kristine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Science and spirituality combined.

[Mad Anobes · Rating 1 out of 5]

لا يصلح حتي ليكون رواية خيال علمي

[أنس م.الغزالي · Rating 1 out of 5]

سأعطيه نجمة، لأنه أبدع في "الهبد".

[Milady Raelian · Rating 5 out of 5]

super i love it