Quote Originally Posted by DrivingForce View Post
Quote Originally Posted by DrB0b View Post
It's not impossible to think that it might be true, people can think all sorts of stuff but that doesn't mean it's correct. After all, Frank Baum imagined the Land of Oz but that doesn't mean it exists. The reason it's very unlikely that humans came from outer space is that we are too closely related, genetically and biochemically to too many other species not to have evolved on earth.

There is speculation that the original building-blocks of life did come from space but very few people take seriously the idea that full-fledged intelligences populated the earth. The evidence against that idea is overwhelming.

The idea that man should be in harmony with nature is a strange one, man is an intelligent tool-using animal who has evolved to control nature, not to be a fundamental part of it. Self-destructive tendencies are not particularly unnatural either, they rise from the common human attitude of "what happens if I do this?". There is no reason to suppose that any aliens would be much different to us in that tendency.

Progress is not a linear thing, it's geometric. It took us a long time to discover fire, not so long a time after that to discover agriculture, and an even shorter time after that to invent towns and cities, then the wheel, and suddenly we had things like leisured classes, scholars, writing, priests, government, taxes, astronomy and mathematics, and "bang!" off we go. Progress builds on what went before and accelerates, it's no surprise at all that the last 100 years or the last 2000 years prodeced more technological advances than the entire Stone Age. Perhaps one day it'll stop or we'll end up destroying ourselves through our curiosity.

I'm not aware of any strong evidence that we came from outer space, what is it, and what are the artifacts that may have come from space? If we found a fusion reactor or a plasma gun underneath a Mayan pyramid I might be willing to be convinced but so far I've only seen things like lemon-juice powered batteries for electroplating from Baghdad or dodgy Mayan murals that fraudsters like Von daniken claim show people piloting space-ships.

The only "evidence" I'm aware of that's even remotely compelling is the Dogon people's insistence that they came from Sirius B, a star that's not visible to the naked eye and one that's hard to imagine the Dogon people knowing about before the rise of modern astronomy.
says the wizard himself..... he's passed down the edict all can go home now, no further debate required...
Could we actually be... 03-11-2008 04:56 PM DrivingForce typically pretentious and pompous diatribe with no use from a half witted moron..

Are you actually able to respond to the above post? Show us where it's pretentious or half-witted. It's written in simple English so you should have no difficulty pointing out exactly what's wrong with it.