(April 17, 2011 at 3:28 pm)JohnDG Wrote: How do you know they didn't?(Im not saying they did) They could certainly have just been experimenting with us or seeing how we react in situations. Maybe they believed we were savages and decided to see how blood thirtsy we are. Maybe they simply toyed with us and gave us false beliefs for their own entertainment, you cannot predict the thoughts and motives of an extra terrestrial being, for they would certainly be nothing like us. They might not even have emotions or moral values.
Maybe there's a teapot orbiting Mars that can't be seen with our telescopes. It's not impossible. That doesn't mean we need to give any serious thought to Russell's teapot.
Your arguments all seem to take the form:
"I will demonstrate that alien astronauts are plausible.
They are not impossible.
QED."
Is it really more reasonable to think that there's an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation travelling for thousands upon thousands of years through the cosmos just to teach fledgling civilisations how to build big stone triangles, than it is to think that a few civilisations happened to discover vaguely similar building techniques within a few centuries of one another?
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
