Raelism is a new religious movement founded by the French former journalist and singer Claude Vorilhon, who took the name Rael. He said that he was contacted by an extraterrestrial being who revealed that humanity was created in laboratories by a race of scientists called the Elohim, which he identified with the beings described in the Book of Genesis. The Raelian Movement holds that religion should be replaced by scientific understanding, supports human cloning and sexual freedom, and hopes to build an embassy for the Elohim. It gained wide attention in 2002 when a company linked to it, Clonaid, claimed to have produced a cloned baby, a claim that was never substantiated.
Before and after
- 1974Construction of Estádio Nacional de Brasília
- 1974Establishment of Amboseli National Park
- 1974Creation of SQL
- 1974Establishment of Gunung Mulu National Park
- 1974Origins of Raelism
- from 1974 to 1989Dirty War
- 1974Founding of Grenada
- 1974The Ebla tablets are found in Syria
- 1974Stephen Hawking predicts that black holes radiate
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