Userfriendly SETI

Check out the [latest Userfriendly comic strip][1]. This makes me laugh when atheists (and others) have a go at us God-botherers for believing in the miraculous. We can’t see any intelligence in human DNA, but we can see it in [radio waves from outer space][2]?

Reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode, Waiting for God.

LISTER: What do you believe in, then? Do you believe in God?
RIMMER: God? Certainly not! What a preposterous thought! I believe in aliens, Lister.
LISTER: Oh, right, fine. Something sensible at last.

*Edit: Just had a second look at the comic, and I think I might be assigning unfair motives to Iliad. Perhaps the strip is really just a Murphy’s Law kind of thing. We stop looking for intelligent life in the sky the day before they decide to show up. Perhaps not.*

[1]: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20071125
[2]: http://www.seti.org/