Let me begin by saying that I have always maintained that alien visitation to our planet is possible and that the possibility exists that some of the UFOs that people have seen are actual ETI visitations. Its possible. I simply don't apply the same probabilities to it as you do, and certainly not the same probabilities as those that see ancient artwork as evidence for alien visitation.
Well I don't know why we're even having this discussion then since all seems good.
Not necessarily true. Photographs and video of tornados is more valid than that of ETI-UFO photos and videos because of four things: 1) tornado photographs are of better quality; 2) tornado photographs of high quality are numerous; 3) enough tornado photographs have far better provenience and context than ETI-UFO counterparts and enough come from credible/reputable sources (NOAA, et al) to draw correlations; 4) tornado photographs will nearly always have correlating and coroborating data.
All that would mean is that the tornado picture market has been flooded more than the UFO picture market and that the docturers of the tornado pictures are more skilled than the amateur's trying to fake UFO sightings.
One is clearly an atmospheric phenomenon, but definately a complex composition to create if not genuine.
Well you see, Occam's Razor proves that your complex theory of tornados is wrong. If it's not K-I-S-S, then the theory is wrong muchlike there is no such thing as a conspiracy theory due to the complexity of it all. I mean hey, what's more simple? There are billions of planets in the universe and since we're one planet that has intellegent life, it means another one would exist too so ETI exist.
Now what is this crazy theory about tornados you're talking about? It requires perfect atmospheric scenarios where a buncha molucules do their thing in a complex way and all sorts of other gibberish that people spout to make a tornado happen. You're crazy man with your complex stuff. It MUST be false! I can't believe so many people believe in such a complex and crazy theory of air vaccuums that happen in the sky, what whackos! So sorry bro, but I just trumped you with Occam’s Razor. Whew, thank goodness I’m able to rely on such things!
Although, I'll have to give you some credit though as you didn't bring up Zeus' 4th cousin from marriage who was birthed by his sister who hurled these "mystical" tornados down at worshippers who disappointed him.
That picture of your tornado doesn't really hold up either. That is much too easy to make in photoshop by taking a picture of a normal cloud and altering it to form your "tornado". And all past artwork one sees which depicts this "tornado" is merely an "interpretation" of an event in the Bible so that just further shows how silly your little so-called "theory" is.
Demanding extraordinary (or even basic!) evidence for the extraordinary claim that one has witnessed an alien spacecraft is hardly ridiculous.
What’s so extraordinary about witnessing an alien spacecraft? An extraordinary claim would be if that person also had sex with a female alien and produced a litter of half-man, half-alien monstrosities that later became members in the U.S. Senate.
But you asked for “basic” evidence and LOTS of basic evidence exist but you know what the problem is? Lots of those types of evidence winds up “unexplained” so it somehow doesn’t count. Well what the hell, if someone shows you a video of a UFO and you can’t explain what it is, uh, well duh, it’s because it’s a UFO that doesn’t exist on this planet.
I would demand the same if someone said they witnessed my wife kissing another man at the movie theater. My skepticism would be at the same level and I would demand some extraordinary evidence to support this claim if a friend made it. A blurry photo that may or may not be my wife wouldn't do. A ticket stub with a correlating date/time would be a start, but still more would be needed for me to be sure that I not misunderstand something more innocent. I would start by brainstorming alternative hypotheses and see if I could falsify the primary hypothesis that she's cheating. Could she have spent the day with her brother and gave him peck on the cheek when he met her at the theater? Could my friend have observed my wife and then observed another couple in the darkened theater that wore a similar outfit? etc.
Yeah, and how exactly would that be able to be proved? The event has passed so there’s no way to record it other than waiting a long ass time in hopes that it happens again, which hopefully some proof can be taken, which isn’t so easy to do ya know. Having to be in the right place at the right time expecting it nonetheless. Heck, your wife could even admit to kissing a guy, but that wouldn’t mean anything since people are so skeptical of first-hand testimonies. She could just be saying that to piss you off and get you to divorce her or some other silly reason I can say to debunk your theory of her kissing a guy as false. That incident was clearly two people in agreement to make a false case and fool everyone.
But it can also not have happened but evidence can still be found to show that it did happen such as what you mentioned. Anything can easily be proved false, but it’s also easy to manipulate things to make something seem like it happened. However, finding the truth is practically impossible.
You see, there’s no way to actually prove it OR disprove it. There’s just certain events that cannot be explained due to the past being the past. There’s no point in flat out believing or denying it like a fanatic. Go ahead and say it can be highly probable and leave it at that. Unfortunately that’s not good enough for many people. They HAVE to know the outcome, whether it’s true or not and will not settle until they can prove without a doubt with a yes or no answer so we have zealots on each side fighting against each other like flippin morons.
The very fact that you chalk these human fallacies as illegitmate possibilities ("lame reasons") supports what I was saying about not willing to go through the falsification process that the scientific method requires.
I didn’t call them lame reasons because of those being legitimate reasons, but rather because they’re ALWAYS used to debunk something. You know how when people can’t understand the workings of something, they chalk it up to being the work of God? Well the same applies to debunkers when it comes to things that cannot be explained. That person saw a UFO? No, they didn’t, they “hallucinated” it. Sheesh, I don’t even think there’s a UFO case that doesn’t try to end with a person hallucinating, being drugged, being a mental case, or some other similar reason to try and make the person seem less credible. Character assassination is the #1 thing to try and do to make a person seem less compitant. This applies to people who claimed to have seen UFOs, this applies to every day court cases, you name it.
Not at all. In fact, debunking much of the nonsense that is presented by the proponents of paranormal and supernatural phenomena is next to impossible.
Well I don’t mean the theory as a whole, but rather the evidence shown to prove the existance of their theory. Yeah, one can’t claim the existance of God, invisible flying pink unicorns, or whatever. A picture, video, testimony, artwork, or something else though? Easy. Photoshop, video editing, person hallucinating, and interpreted artwork. Oh yeah, let’s also not forget about the infamous Occam’s Razor too as that’s an ol’ favorite. Those are basically the end results of every case. Debunkers like throwing those around as trump cards and that’s why it’s lame. Not because they’re valid explinations, but because only those reasons apply to every.. single.. damned.. case.
Your criticisms and points are each worthy of discussion, however. I'm glad you've brought them up.
Yeah, they’re legitimate, but I figure those are common sense points. I’m just having more fun with the sarcasm and showing the irony how any debunking excuse can apply to any real situation, not just UFO/ETI stuff. It’s just fun to use a person’s own words against em to show how irrational and silly they’re being with some of their debunking results (which the same applies to the one presenting the case in the first place). And with those reasons, if it can apply to everything, then most things as we know it are false. That, or things wind up turning into a huge pick and choose battle of what others want us to believe is true, kinda like history where things are picked and chosen to either be “really happened”, “didn’t happen”, or “myth”. Gotta love the predicament of “truth”.
- N