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RE: Mind Helping Me Break This Down?
January 7, 2015 at 5:50 pm
I do have a little bit of an ulterior motive here. Anybody mind analyzing why it's a steaming pile?
You see, I'm dating someone who, admittedly, wants the ancient alien hypothesis to be true, but is totally willing to poke holes in it as to why it might not be. He might be lurking as we speak.
Please be fairly nice about it, though. I kinda like this one :p
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RE: Mind Helping Me Break This Down?
January 7, 2015 at 5:57 pm
Captain Obvious to the rescue, ma'am.
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RE: Mind Helping Me Break This Down?
January 7, 2015 at 6:00 pm
The number of leaps of logic one needs just to begin the "ancient alien" stuff is insane.
1) aliens exist
2) it's possible to detect them
3) they're advanced enough to employ interstellar travel
4) they visited our planet in specific
5) they chose to intervene on our planet in specific, on the behalf of our species in specific
6) they knew what interventions would be beneficial to our species
7) they left incontrovertible proof of their interaction with us
I could keep going, but seriously, the number of presuppositions you have to make just to even consider "ancient aliens" is even higher than the presuppostions needed for Creationism.
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