26th January 2006, 4:28 PM
Let me ask you something. Before confirmation of the giant squid, was it really an unreasonable position to go into to disbelief it for the time being?
No.
People once thought the world was flat. They were wrong. People once thought the world was a perfectly spherical shape. They too were wrong. But, if you think that the people who thought the world was a sphere were just as wrong as those thinking the world was flat, you are more wrong than both of them put together.
What I mean to say is this. Sure, Bigfoot MAY exist, and if evidence is presented, I will believe it to be the case. However, I have no reason to believe it exists. To believe in something just because you are afraid you might be wrong is foolish. All we really have to go by in the end is evidence. Believe every single crazy thing you can think of and suddenly you can't form a decision any more. Every functional person to at least some degree has to exibit SOME skepticism to make any choice at all as to what move to make next.
You say you saw a UFO. I suspect if I probed deeper I would discover you've also had a psychic experience in your life, am I right?
I was like that once, I believed every crazy notion because of just how compelling it was, with no evidence to back it up.
You have not yet considered more reasonable explanations for that UFO siting. Now, this I'm pretty sure of. You saw something you could not identify that, relative to SOMETHING, appeared to be moving in a jig jag pattern. Relative to what exactly? Were you staring at it through some trees? Sometimes the branches of trees can sway and give the illusion of very fast movement. Was it really that far away? Was it really that close? You are not even examining the possibility that you properly gauged the distance of the object. Everyone's always seeing strange things moving 'zig zaggy". I'm not impressed. I don't know all the details. I can't tell you what you saw with any level of certainty. What I can say is you have yet to provide anything that says "yes, this MUST be an alien space ship or possibly some government secret craft". There are far too many other possibilities.
Sorry lazy, I'm not sure if you have always been this way in regards to "woo" beliefs, but I have this to say. You are not engaging in rational thought. These are religious claims. Now I'm not going to debate religion with you or anything, but the fact remains the conclusions you are drawing based on these occurances are not founded in scientific method.
You can be very insightful, but I'm getting the impression that you aren't exactly a fan of critical thinking. In fact, if you are like others I've met, you probably find the very concept of critical thinking either an impossibility or an offensive tool that turns people into closed minded clods.
No.
People once thought the world was flat. They were wrong. People once thought the world was a perfectly spherical shape. They too were wrong. But, if you think that the people who thought the world was a sphere were just as wrong as those thinking the world was flat, you are more wrong than both of them put together.
What I mean to say is this. Sure, Bigfoot MAY exist, and if evidence is presented, I will believe it to be the case. However, I have no reason to believe it exists. To believe in something just because you are afraid you might be wrong is foolish. All we really have to go by in the end is evidence. Believe every single crazy thing you can think of and suddenly you can't form a decision any more. Every functional person to at least some degree has to exibit SOME skepticism to make any choice at all as to what move to make next.
You say you saw a UFO. I suspect if I probed deeper I would discover you've also had a psychic experience in your life, am I right?
I was like that once, I believed every crazy notion because of just how compelling it was, with no evidence to back it up.
You have not yet considered more reasonable explanations for that UFO siting. Now, this I'm pretty sure of. You saw something you could not identify that, relative to SOMETHING, appeared to be moving in a jig jag pattern. Relative to what exactly? Were you staring at it through some trees? Sometimes the branches of trees can sway and give the illusion of very fast movement. Was it really that far away? Was it really that close? You are not even examining the possibility that you properly gauged the distance of the object. Everyone's always seeing strange things moving 'zig zaggy". I'm not impressed. I don't know all the details. I can't tell you what you saw with any level of certainty. What I can say is you have yet to provide anything that says "yes, this MUST be an alien space ship or possibly some government secret craft". There are far too many other possibilities.
Sorry lazy, I'm not sure if you have always been this way in regards to "woo" beliefs, but I have this to say. You are not engaging in rational thought. These are religious claims. Now I'm not going to debate religion with you or anything, but the fact remains the conclusions you are drawing based on these occurances are not founded in scientific method.
You can be very insightful, but I'm getting the impression that you aren't exactly a fan of critical thinking. In fact, if you are like others I've met, you probably find the very concept of critical thinking either an impossibility or an offensive tool that turns people into closed minded clods.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)