The basis for my entire stance in this topic is the fact that there is no hard proof FOR alien visitation.
There is so much speculation on the topic that an entire subculture has evolved from the controversy. This subculture feeds on itself, drawing conclusions from speculations, inferring things from cyclical reasoning and blatantly ignoring any fact that obstructs their fantasy.
I don't believe in alien visitation because I see nothing that eliminates every concievable possibility other than it. I see lights on videos, blotches on old paintings, dark shadows on old films... I see no definite proof that what I am seeing is alien in nature, nor do I see anything that can ONLY be explained by alien visitation.
I am open to the possibility, I truly am.
We must not pile up inconclusive data and pretend that it points anywhere. I have seen nothing remotely conclusive, only second and third hand reports of phenomena that is in some cases mundane and in other cases dubious. There are 12 million sightings, and I have yet to encounter a believer who thinks that each of the 32 sightings a day for the last 1000 years are genuine. Even if only 20% are real sightings, that is still 6.4 every day for the last 1000 years. Despite this; no evidence whatsoever. No pictures of aliens, no videotape of them running around, no landing marks, no trash, equipment, bodies, microorganisms... nothing.
So, on one hand, I have a HUGE pile of questionable evidence (eyewitness reports, etc...). But, nothing I can point to and put under a microscope. I have seen lots of hoaxes within this pool of data, and many mundane, yet credible explanations.
On the other hand, I have the unyielding weight of science.
Science wins, hands down. You show me how it IS possible (not how it 'might'), or show me that it IS happening (not something you can't identify'). Anything hort of that is PURE speculation.
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There is so much speculation on the topic that an entire subculture has evolved from the controversy. This subculture feeds on itself, drawing conclusions from speculations, inferring things from cyclical reasoning and blatantly ignoring any fact that obstructs their fantasy.
I don't believe in alien visitation because I see nothing that eliminates every concievable possibility other than it. I see lights on videos, blotches on old paintings, dark shadows on old films... I see no definite proof that what I am seeing is alien in nature, nor do I see anything that can ONLY be explained by alien visitation.
I am open to the possibility, I truly am.
We must not pile up inconclusive data and pretend that it points anywhere. I have seen nothing remotely conclusive, only second and third hand reports of phenomena that is in some cases mundane and in other cases dubious. There are 12 million sightings, and I have yet to encounter a believer who thinks that each of the 32 sightings a day for the last 1000 years are genuine. Even if only 20% are real sightings, that is still 6.4 every day for the last 1000 years. Despite this; no evidence whatsoever. No pictures of aliens, no videotape of them running around, no landing marks, no trash, equipment, bodies, microorganisms... nothing.
So, on one hand, I have a HUGE pile of questionable evidence (eyewitness reports, etc...). But, nothing I can point to and put under a microscope. I have seen lots of hoaxes within this pool of data, and many mundane, yet credible explanations.
On the other hand, I have the unyielding weight of science.
Science wins, hands down. You show me how it IS possible (not how it 'might'), or show me that it IS happening (not something you can't identify'). Anything hort of that is PURE speculation.
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