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RE: Extraterrestrial intelligence?
October 26, 2016 at 8:49 pm
Interesting but the alien hypothesis seems like a reach to me. If aliens were taking the trouble to send signals, I would expect the signals to be obviously artificial - sending a stream of prime numbers for example.
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RE: Extraterrestrial intelligence?
October 27, 2016 at 7:53 am
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Now I see on google news that scientists are "pouring" 100 billion dollars to study those stars. I bet that when they decipher the message those stars are blinking that it's a commercial for a space junk food chain.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"