RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2015 at 1:57 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(February 13, 2015 at 11:47 am)Huggy74 Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper
None of this is evidence. I don't even see any pictures on that wiki. How come?
People experience things they can't explain. People make up a narrative, relevant to their culture. A hundred years earlier "Foo Fighters" would have been "Angels" or "Pixies". And maybe they'd be considered benevolent, because at the end of the day - they don't seem to do shit, except scare people crazy.
There are plenty of phenomena in the universe scientists can't completely - or indeed at all - explain. Even more - that we haven't observed yet. But jumping to a sci-fi fairy-tale about "Space Invaders" is a bit pre-mature and credulous, to say the least. I can make up a dozen explanations of those UFOs on the spot and they'd be just as valid and useful as yours, or any conspiracy nut's, because it's apparently impossible to capture one of those things for scientific testing. They might as well have been Jesus. Or the Abominable Snowman.
Let me spell it out for you: if anyone had real evidence for "alien visitors" (or pixies, or angels, or Care Bears for that matter - we'd hear about it. A lot. Governments can't cover-up shit. Read some history. Like - from a book. And scientists have no reason to hide anything - the first one to show an authentic alien artifact or life-form specimen would get Nobel prizes up his/her arse.
But nooooo. All we get are tall tales and unexplained anecdotes. That works for you? Fine. Be sure to wear your tin-foil helmet at all times. I happen to live in a world where I don't have to worry about War Of The Worlds - until there is a reason to.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
