There is no lack of evidence just a lack of acceptance. All the old texts worldwide wouldn't say the same thing and people wouldn't gather on Sunday morning to talk about it.
Are aliens out there? Heavens, I hope so!
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Nah. It's a lack of evidence. All there is that show gods to have been in existence is hearsay. Hearsay is not evidence except in law courts and that has to do with guilt or innocence (implying that existence isn't in question).
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I pray you get it back.
(I mean your credulity, not your spaceship, although I hope you find that, too).
I think you mean credibility, don't you? Credibility is a good thing to have, credulity is not. Shag Harbour's one of those interesting ones that no can really say anything definitive about, all I've ever seen about it is a few eyewitness accounts of something that looked like an aircraft hitting the water and sinking before anyone could get to it. Plus a lot of ill-informed and over-excited speculation that doesn't mean anything. Nothing was ever recovered from the site as far as I know, no debris, no artifacts, no bodies, nothing, it left not a trace.
Sure they would. The number of people who believe something to be true has nothing to do with whether it's really true or not. People are subject to many kinds of misperceptions and cognitive distortions and errors in thinking, that's why scientific procedures have such elaborate safeguards against such things.
At least none that you are willing to acknowledge with your present understanding of technology and science. There are plenty of enigma surrounding much of archaeology that gets left out of the theoretical science because it doesn't fit into our narrow view of possibilities, such as the laser precision of the rock cuts in Mayan and Aztec structures.
I am tending to agree with DB in regards to science being just as dogmatic as religion - it is the new religion. After spending almost twenty years studying many available archaeological and anthropological reports on aboriginal peoples I found that many of the academia were as entrenched in out dated modes and theories as any religious fundamentalist.
No, I didn't say that either, and I don't think it's true. I think, for instance, that Victorian ethics were superior in some ways to what passes for ethics these days, though I don't know that the Victorians were any better at honouring their ethics than we are. But if we're talking about being technologically advanced, and we were, then yes, pretty much by definition being advanced hinges on the technology.
True - there is a vast difference between religious dogma and science. Religious dogma by its very nature cannot be changed or even properly examined without drawing considerable acrimony from the religious authorities. Science on the other hand invites challenges and as a result is capable of being modified to accept new information or evidence that refutes it completely.
Lathe machined diorite vases commonly found in Eygpt by the hundreds, very beautiful very precise cutting. That suggests precision bearings and precision speed control and very hard cutting tools. A thing like Cheops screams technological power. Even to the sand ramp and slave builder crowd.
There is no evidence that our civilization knows more than any previous civilization. Here we can apply the scientific method. Where is your evidence? Science already points to humans being engineered, exactly what we are doing with plants and animals today with science. If history repeats itself then it follows that civilization repeats itself then because of the narrow spectrum we are confined to technology has no choice but to repeat itself, usually in emulation of animals at the beginning, birds invoke aircraft fish invoke hunter killer submarines. History repeats itself. You should have that tatooed on your big hairy arm. When will it sink in ?
The BB is religion. The BB is not science. The BB is and was a religious device. The BB is just another creation story, sure it has blinking lights and stage fog and an exciting sound track but it's just a new age creation story, and a very unimaginitive one at that.
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Well I have to get back to the lab now. I'm isolating a miniature frozen black hole from a pound of pepper. It's very delicate work.
There are other explanations for those things that you could easily find if you bothered to look, you've just accepted the first explanations that suit your prejudices. You wouldn't recognize dogma if it barked and bit you.
Of course there is life out there somewhere. Comets carry the elements for life. I'm sure they have hit many planets. What life forms may be out there is hard to tell.
Did Comets Contain Key Ingredients For Life On Earth?
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I don't think the amount of technology has anything to do with how advanced it is either. And I agree that being "advanced" is a relative term. But Anna does have a point that we are not as advanced in some ways; as in her calendar example, for instance. I'd add that the treatment of Earth was better before than now, too, even if it was mainly due to the fact that there were fewer people to screw it up. lol People seem to have lost a lot of reverence for Earth in the past couple hundred years.