[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Maybe or maybe not, Henry. Plenty 'of what ifs' - surely that's always been the starting point for scientists?
Sure, I was suggesting that the development of man may have been influenced by other factors, rather than wholly reliant on evolution alone - maybe aliens did come, maybe they didn't.
Today Man is now, or very soon will be, capable of creating life forms consistant with the creation theory.
It's not that far fetched that long ago humankind was hugely influenced, or evolution fast-forwarded by beings at least at the same stage of development as ourselves - and made man in their own image?
Maybe it was an existing civilsation on earth which destroyed itself (ha! history about to repeat itself........?). Maybe something else that we dismiss or are yet to recognise ?
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Maybe isn't science. This is just the Atlantis/Stargate/Chariot of the Gods myth. There is no evidence at all to back this up.
If you are prepared to accept that this is just a "wish" then fair enough but this is not a serious debate. I might as well say that I am the re-incarnation of Charles Darwin. I can offer no evidence for that other than that I say it might be true and you can not disprove it.
The real question is why do people feel the need to believe in or at least give credence to such stories of aliens super beings. Natural selection is amazing. It is one of the most exciting and fantastic revelations of the past 200 years. It is, to me at least, awe inspiring. The wonder of the human race to have produced the Pyramids. Wow that is great. Why dismiss that or say that they/we weren't capable of such beauty and creativity. Why give the credit to some mythical space cowboys.
You can maybe or what if forever and it doesn't make it any more true
[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
I've read a little about the SETI project years ago, and I agree they haven't reported any positive results that we can recognise. So that's pretty definitive then, as far as our scientists are concerned, man is the only intelligent life form in the entire Universe.
You are so so wrong. That is not what SETI is saying. SETI is looking for evidence so it accepts that it is POSSIBLE that aliens exists. No evidence has yet been found but they still look. So far we are the only intelligent life form in the entire universe THAT WE KNOW ABOUT. We maybe the only ones but there is still no evidence for any other.
Wishing it to be true does not make it true. Saying that it is possible does not make it true. Saying that you can not prove that there are no aliens does not make it true.
Looking for and finding evidence will make it true if there is evidence to be found.
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Maybe isn't science. This is just the Atlantis/Stargate/Chariot of the Gods myth. There is no evidence at all to back this up.
If you are prepared to accept that this is just a "wish" then fair enough but this is not a serious debate. I might as well say that I am the re-incarnation of Charles Darwin. I can offer no evidence for that other than that I say it might be true and you can not disprove it.
The real question is why do people feel the need to believe in or at least give credence to such stories of aliens super beings. Natural selection is amazing. It is one of the most exciting and fantastic revelations of the past 200 years. It is, to me at least, awe inspiring. The wonder of the human race to have produced the Pyramids. Wow that is great. Why dismiss that or say that they/we weren't capable of such beauty and creativity. Why give the credit to some mythical space cowboys.
You can maybe or what if forever and it doesn't make it any more true
You are so so wrong. That is not what SETI is saying. SETI is looking for evidence so it accepts that it is POSSIBLE that aliens exists. No evidence has yet been found but they still look. So far we are the only intelligent life form in the entire universe THAT WE KNOW ABOUT. We maybe the only ones but there is still no evidence for any other.
Wishing it to be true does not make it true. Saying that it is possible does not make it true. Saying that you can not prove that there are no aliens does not make it true.
Looking for and finding evidence will make it true if there is evidence to be found.
Says the dude with a photo of the Bayeaux Tapestry on his profile...
LOL