How insensitive of you.They will be around here again cutting grass soon.
Do you believe in an invisible God? If you do then why not an invisible alien? Most who believe in an invisible god say the proof is in what we see before us, the great wonders of our surroundings. So are the great wonders that we have from our ancient past, that even today we marvel at, could not have been built with help from alien life?I would say no - and for several reasons.
First, most of the "evidence" touted - especially on the show you mentioned - has to do with ancient, "primitive" man apparently having access to knowledge and/or technology that they supposedly could not have obtained on their own.
Second, the rest of the "evidence" is extremely anecdotal and circumstantial at best. We have drawings and depictions of thing that "kinda, sorta" or "could possibly" resemble aliens, flying saucers, etc.
As for the first set of "evidence", I attribute that primarily to mankind's arrogance - of which we have in massive overabundance if we have any at all. We have a major habit of both over-esteeming our own understanding and accomplishments while virtually dismissing that of previous civilizations or even previous generations. The ancient Romans made stronger, longer-lasting concrete than we make today. Many of the roads and bridges they built are still being driven on today. Much of their aqueduct system could still be used for plumbing and irrigation purposes with just a modicum of maintenance. The ancient Greeks had a "programmable" device that can only be described as a primitive computer that could be used to calculate both latitude and longitude at sea - something "modern" man wasn't able to accomplish until the late 19th Century.
To further exemplify the inconsequential nature of that "evidence", you can juxtapose that hypothesis with the second set of "evidence" given. If extra-terrestrials did, in fact, come to Earth and share advanced knowledge and technology with ancient civilizations then the recorded evidence would not be anecdotal and circumstantial; the evidence would be obvious. We wouldn't have small, random smatterings of things that "kinda, sorta" look like aliens and "could possibly" represent flying saucers; we would have detailed depictions and accounts of these encounters - perhaps even names for the aliens and examples of their language - and of the knowledge and technology being passed on by them.
The most obvious, if not most common, retort to this argument would be to ask "What if the aliens didn't want to just come out and reveal themselves to ancient man, and ancient man only caught glimpses of their presence?"
To this, I would proffer that any intelligent being capable of travelling billions of light-years across the galaxy in order to study a primitive planet would - assuming they didn't want to reveal themselves to the indigenous population - be perfectly capable of actually not revealing themselves to the indigenous population. They wouldn't be "accidentally" letting us catch glimpses of them and they certainly wouldn't be crash landing in the middle of the desert in Southeastern New Mexico.
If they had been here, interacting with mankind, then we would know it. We wouldn't suspect it; we would know it.
If they have been here but didn't want us to know about it then we wouldn't have a clue.
Isn't it ironic that the Catholic church has two observatories, one of them in Arizona sitting on a mountain that is considered holy to the Hopis and Zunis who apparently witnessed a lot of "alien" activity? Isn't also "ironic" that Romans and Greeks worshipped "Gods" who sat on a mountain and that Moses climbed a mountain to talk to God? How do you quantify the pyramid building that went on through out the world when these people were thousands of miles away and oceans away from one another? How do you explain Elijah and Enoch being swept away by "chariots" to the heavens? What happened to the naval flight off the coast of Florida? How do you explain our extraordinary leap in technology in the last 100 years v. the previous 5,000 years?Aliens have been coming and going to this planet ever since life was first introduced to it, just most people do not understand that. Aliens have been tinkering with life on this planet from the start and still are. Every time there is an extinction event on this planet, aliens introduce new and different life, some of it kin to what life that does survive the global devastation's of the past and some new species. There are more extinct species of life on this planet in the past than the life that exist now.
And guess what?! Another mass extinction is in our future! Whether it comes from an asteroid impact, a super volcano eruption, a deadly plague, war, solar flare or what have you. When it happens and after a period of recovery, the aliens will once again introduce new life species to this planet and it will flourish till the next event. The cycle will go on and on until the Sun has exhausted its fuel supply and dies, then the aliens will have new planets to work on.
Why would aliens do such a thing and what would they get out of it you might ask? Well what does gardening do for you? What does creating music do for anyone? Why do we create and enjoy art? We get our life force, spirit from them so that makes us a part of them. Thats why we do what we do and they do what they do. Myths, legends, traditions created by us to explain all this notwithstanding, we are all alien products.
Your God is an alien!
They were the giants. Maybe the Greeks called them Titans. David called him Goliath.Genesis 6:4 "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown."
Who were the Nephilim? Were they aliens to this planet?
There you go. Even the Bible talks about "interbreeding" with humans. Nice.Genesis 6:4 "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown."
Who were the Nephilim? Were they aliens to this planet?
They went to a dimension that you and I can't see, even though it may be right in front of us or above us. Maybe we have to die to see that dimension. Even though I guess Enoch was one of the lucky ones.Isn't it ironic that the Catholic church has two observatories, one of them in Arizona sitting on a mountain that is considered holy to the Hopis and Zunis who apparently witnessed a lot of "alien" activity? Isn't also "ironic" that Romans and Greeks worshipped "Gods" who sat on a mountain and that Moses climbed a mountain to talk to God? How do you quantify the pyramid building that went on through out the world when these people were thousands of miles away and oceans away from one another? How do you explain Elijah and Enoch being swept away by "chariots" to the heavens? What happened to the naval flight off the coast of Florida? How do you explain our extraordinary leap in technology in the last 100 years v. the previous 5,000 years?
Why isn't the Catholic Church publishing the 3rd Fatima? It will probably destroy Christianity, Judaism and Islam as we know it. Religion has been used as a means to control the people. If that institution is turned upside down, it would cause panic worldwide.
Call me crazy, but I just think there's more to it.
I prefer to be considered Deist at this point. I'm not saying God in whatever form you believe Him to be doesn't exist. I have a hard time quantifying things like the Big Bang without some sort of divine creation initially that set the laws of physics in motion. It may be just as the Bible says. I've just begun to doubt that is the only spoken word. I think there are many "books" missing from the Bible that are also of significant importance but the powers that be excluded them because it didn't fit their doctrine of control over the masses.They went to a dimension that you and I can't see, even though it may be right in front of us or above us. Maybe we have to die to see that dimension. Even though I guess Enoch was one of the lucky ones.
Are you just agnostic or have you progressed to atheism?
You talk about mountains. Is that why people ascend to the top of Mt. Everest? To converse with God?
I do watch ancient aliens on H2, but it will take a lot more than that to change my Christian worldview.
And I do wish that I had as much hair as the supposed expert with the electric shock treatment hair doo.
He does have "great" hair doesn't he?And I do wish that I had as much hair as the supposed expert with the electric shock treatment hair doo.