RE: Could E.T. have influenced religion?
April 19, 2011 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2011 at 5:37 pm by orogenicman.)
(April 19, 2011 at 4:51 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Because their shit stinks as much as the rest of ours.
Comprende?
People can be full of shit at every level of society. The guy that fathered the genome project is a born-again Christian. That's right, he believes there's an invisible man in the sky.
Don't appeal to authority.
That's true, he does, but he recently acknowledged that intelligent design is wrong. At least he's smart enough to hedge his bets.
Quote:But you cannot disprove ancient astronaughts anymore than anyone can prove them.
This is true. We cannot. But we also cannot disprove the existence of unicorns. That doesn't mean that they exist.
I have a lot of respect for Dr. Mitchell as an astronaut, and what he did by walking on the moon. That said, we still need physical evidence for ET, not anecdotal stories.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
