RE: Alien cover up
December 26, 2015 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2015 at 8:01 pm by CapnAwesome.)
(December 26, 2015 at 7:25 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(December 26, 2015 at 7:06 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If that were true then it wouldn't matter whether or not aliens are visiting us anyway. Instead of a God that is invisible and does nothing (but can do anything), you just have invented aliens that are invisible and do nothing (but can do anything.) It's almost the exact same argument. I guess technically it makes sense to be agnostic about them but I would say the total lack of credible evidence where there should be evidence is good enough to say that we have not been visited by aliens.
It's not quite the same argument. The notion that hidden aliens may be amongst us without leaving discernible evidence does not go on to say "therefore aliens are indeed amongst us", much less "the alien of whom we have no naturalistic evidence must therefore not only be here, but must also possess more specific attributes besides those necessitated by their unobservability, such as being creators of the universe and being the same as what some specific primitive happen to have said to have fucked his mother to himself brith just to absolve you, somehow, of that which you never did, so you must reorder your life and perception, at the behest of more primitives, some modern and some from the Iron Age, in order to properly adore him".
It's close enough. We have no naturalistic evidence (or evidence of any kind) that aliens are amoungst us. The other stuff you wrote is about a specific version of God (The Christian God), if someone were hypothesizing a specific version of an Alien race (The greys who have so and so flying saucer and came here in 1948 and crash landed in New Mexico) visiting earth it would be the same level of ridiculousness. Just like with God, the more specific you get the more ridiculous it gets. That doesn't detract that there is no good reason at all to believe aliens have been here.
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