Yeah...had to stop there.Just got out of a looooooong debate about the pyramids.
Show me the person who says it is unlikely that other life is out there. I have never seen that argument made outside of religion.
Its also kinda funny how many people are against the idea of ancient advanced knowledge when its clear that those structures could not be made with ropes, human labor, or soft metals, yet they still side with the simple explanation that doesnt make them question existence because that option makes them more comfortable.
I've yet to see a single structure that couldn't have been made by ancient man. Just because you may not know how they did it doesn't mean it could not have been done.
Why would questioning existence make us uncomfortable? I think the idea of ancient structures being made with the help of aliens is an awesome concept, I would find it quite exciting if there were any evidence. It would mean the aliens might come back one day and explain our existence to us. What a tantalizing thing to imagine. Following Occam's razor is proper logic, it has nothing to do with comfort.
You dont know how they did it as well and you only side with the more simple explanation because we have fancy toys that we think are advanced.
And you are not guilty of this at all when discussing with or describing the 'believers' ?
Correct, I am not.
I don't need to know exactly how they did it, there is strong evidence to suggest how they did it, even stronger evidence as to when they did it. We have no evidence of aliens or divine intervention doing it. That's the point. As Heis mentioned, if aliens did it, that would be the coolest shit I've ever heard of, not only that, it would completely prove that we're not alone in the universe, one of the biggest questions we can ask as humans. I would welcome the idea. There is just nothing at all that says they did. The absence of evidence is not evidence. Just because we don't know with 100% certainty how it was done does not mean we can justifiably introduce unverifiable conclusions.
Following the simplest explanation of evidence is called parsimony. Can you name any phenomena in which the explanation which made unjust assumptions turned out to be correct?
you should rephrase title to something like "history of humans". or "where the WORD god comes from". title tricked me since 'god' energy has always existed and will always exist.
You do not know that those feats are possible with basic human innovation. Are you referring to that old guy moving that rock on the discovery channel? Please, that doesnt even explain how Coral Castle was made, never mind the pyramids or any other massive ancient structures. Also, the perfect sculpting of giant granite blocks at Puma Punku was supposed to of been done with copper tools and chicken bones? The best stone masons of the world are baffled by this and wouldnt even bother attempting it with their technology. One of the only descriptions of moving these stones was done by Incas of a later generation. They tried to achieve what their predecessors have but they couldnt even drag one stone over a span of years with 20000 people. Do you honestly see only the slimmest chance if it being done by advanced knowledge? (btw, I do believe in the alien part, but I dont think they were much more intelligent than humans at the time, because we are a species with amnesia).
i would consider the presence of certain genes not found in hominids as my evidence. again not credible by scientific terms but valid to many nonetheless. i look at the presence of certain genes as the answer that our genetics have been "experimented" with. i believe we were implanted the genes necessary for intelligence since they are not simple hydrocarbon based genes. they're not found in any other animal (i realize this may be because we're unique, but not unique enough to randomly come across such complexity in our genetics).