Hi guys,,,,IIMMM BAAACK! Call the men with the butterfly nets
ncgles, Can't fault your rationalism, and agree that applying what we currently know about life, that it would seem to be pretty rare.
All our available evidence suggests that life began on this world about 4bln years ago. It would appear that this planet was condusive in many ways to life, but then again life adapts like a UFO nutter to wild theories
But even with warm, salty oceans and so on life remained at a single cell stage for over 3bln years thus drawing the question - how often will life even get passed this stage?
Luckily we did, allong came multicellular life, different species, the first plants on land, animals - forgive me, im not an evolutionary biologist so this is a bit vague.
Then, throughout history there were setbacks - would we have developed without them? I'd say proberly not - we don't believe mamals would have found a foothold if the dinosaurs remained kings.
Then you look at today, intelligence is attributed to a number of animals, dolphins for example - but what will dolphins ever accomplish without opposable thums? Or elephants...
Even then, no other primate has made the jump we did way back when. It would appear we are a fluke, who knows how many things actually had to happen to mould the potential for minds like ours? I believe we are only here because of evolution, and evolution itself is not aware - there is no bias towards intelligence. Perhaps intelligence is ultimately more dangerous than benificial?
So no, it seems foolhardy to venture that another fluke of evolution is visiting us. But I do not believe my mind is vacant, far from it. I'm no genius, but I have a solid respect for scientific reasoning. I also have respect for all the times in history where people were laughed at, only to be proven right later on.
Look, im not going to ask a skeptic to look at the reports of ufo's and such any more than a christian is going to get me to read the bible. If one's mind is made up, it usually stays that way unless proof comes allong to the contrary.
I see many things on this subject that I cant get passed, some can, but I cannot. Thousands of credible witnesses - sure many may not be so credible - but not all in my opinion. Radar evidence backed up by visual sightings. All the Belgium info is available - if it wasn't a craft of some sort, how could one explain how it moved? It was there - no doubt about that. Three simultaneous traces can't be a glitch? Over 100 witnesses on the ground reporting it were underneath it's flightpath on radar. Those witnesses, though seperated reported the same thing. It moved against the wind....
Can I prove this, of course not. But an airforce, backed by a government, released this information....
When things like this have happened....I think it's silly not to keep an open mind.