Your points as copied below are quite good ones and deserve to be answered. You are
right when you say that it is not valid to assume that there IS NO evidence just
because I (or you) have never seen or examined it. (Though it may be logical to INFER
it, unless you would argue that all of the evidence that has ever existed to prove the
assertion is either destroyed, undiscovered as of yet, or kept secret by nefarious
governments. If the latter is the assertion then I would say that such cannot be
logically supported either because it would be logical to assume that at least SOME,
if even a very small amount of the total, of evidence in support of the theory would
be found, and examined by people who would wish the information to be known). Thus I
will qualify my statements to this effect; since no hard evidence of extraterrestrial
life (except for the POSSIBILITY of bacteria like objects which MAY be present in
martian meteors found on Earth) has been presented, and that if one is to postulate
INTELLIGENT life from "elsewhere" and make a connection to the UFO phenomenon, I say
that they then MUST present proof since such MAY violate laws of physics (faster than
light travel, time travel, etc.), or simple logic (why come to THIS little piss-ant
planet on the rim of an inconsequential galaxy?). THEREFORE, while I cannot PROVE
that aliens have not come, or indeed, that they are not STILL coming to this island
Earth, it is not incumbent upon me to prove a negative assertion, though I am
perfectly willing to evaluate any evidence that is presented and stand ready to amend
my view. It is the province of those who assert the theory that aliens HAVE BEEN here
(and continue to come?) to PROVE or at least ATTEMPT to prove that their theory should
be accepted. My point is that there is no evidence to support such claims. Thank you
for the reasoned response.
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Tony Dickinson wrote:
>
> Dear Ten,
> I would be happier if you could qualify your claim. What is your
> evidence for there being 'absolutely no "hard" evidence for ET
> visitatuion' ?
>
> That I, myself, have not knowingly been exposed to any, does not tell me
> therefore that such evidence does not exist.
>
> (At least for one example, the evidence with regards meteoric microossils
> would appear to be growing since The Murchison work by Pfloog/Hoyle back
> in the late 70s. Rather than exploring corn circles in the temporate
> zones, these more passive travellers are landing in stone
> spaceships amongst the Antarctic craters.)
>
> By aplying your same logic to the converse case, 'Interpretations and
> inherent beliefs' might just as likely 'cause' one not to see "aliens"
> for what they are be they present.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony.
"Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, in The Matrix
"My God it's full of stars!" Dave Bowman, in 2001: A Space
Odyssey
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