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originally posted by: bottleslingguy
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
a reply to: Harte
we should get our heads around the first question of us being created by them before we start asking questions like where did THEY come from? You said "life can arise on its own" and I'll ask how you know that? Do you mean like cows growing out of mushrooms, or rocks spontaneously changing into amoebas? What are you talking about?
You realize, I hope, that every bit of the life you claim is "everywhere" cannot have arisen through directed panspermia.
So, life has arisen on its own. Therefore, life can arise on its own.
Harte
I don't dispute that. So then if it has had vastly more time to evolve on some earlier planets than we have had on this one what's wrong with thinking they'd gotten to the point where they wanted to spread out a little?
originally posted by: Fylgje
...That nasal whine....(no offense)
Overall good job even though I'm partially on the other side of the fence
Anyways, It would be hard for someone to carve stones to that precision with todays hand tools, let alone 2000+ years ago. I also doubt that 150+ ton stones were moved around like a couch in a living room. The time it would take to carve a stone to that precision, and then moving that stone in to place would be hefty. I'm not saying it's aliens.... I'm just saying there's something that we don't know about, or understand, about the past. I still LOL when I hear most explanations for how the pyramids in Egypt were built by people back then.
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
a reply to: Harte
we should get our heads around the first question of us being created by them before we start asking questions like where did THEY come from? You said "life can arise on its own" and I'll ask how you know that? Do you mean like cows growing out of mushrooms, or rocks spontaneously changing into amoebas? What are you talking about?
You realize, I hope, that every bit of the life you claim is "everywhere" cannot have arisen through directed panspermia.
So, life has arisen on its own. Therefore, life can arise on its own.
Harte
I don't dispute that. So then if it has had vastly more time to evolve on some earlier planets than we have had on this one what's wrong with thinking they'd gotten to the point where they wanted to spread out a little?
That's the point - there's nothing wrong with that idea at all.
However, if alien species decided to spread out, exactly how does that serve as evidence of alien visitation in Earth's past?
Again, no one is saying that intelligent aliens "can't" exist. What is lacking is any evidence that they exist here.
Harte
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
a reply to: Harte
when you weigh the evidence if one percent is true then that one percent is HUGE. I don't doubt some version of the truth has something to do with at least some of the ancient sites. why not?
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
a reply to: Harte
not true, I didn't want to believe that we were created as a slave species and the first time I heard the idea I was completely opposed to it. It was only after allowing my stubborn ego to trust in the truth that it made sense. I know what it's like to not want to believe in any of this.
originally posted by: Fylgje
a reply to: Mr Mask
More chics than I will ever guess? LOLOL 10-4 big buddy
Well, if it's so easy for a primitive people to quarry 150 ton+ stones and move them miles to their destination, then carve them with primitive tools to very good precision, and then build a temple - then why doesn't a lot of people do it now, or since then??? Why build a home or building the way we do??? Modern things decay very fast but the ancient structures still stand. If it were that easy everybody would've been doin' it throughout history.
I would like to see somebody go cut a 150 ton stone with primitive tools. Then, move it 50 miles. Then, carve it to precision with primitive tools and make it fit together with many other stones and stack them. Replicate what's been built and I will believe it. Until then, No. Not buying it.
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
a reply to: Fylgje
you're on the right track. It really is as simple as that. They want us to believe these people were so primitive and ignorant that they believed in people from other worlds yet they were so skilled manually they could manipulate mega ton blocks and cut them very slowly with ropes sand and copper saws without making one mistake. Not one degree off? Not to mention, you can only do so much with ropes and logs over uneven terrain within a short timeframe. The skeptics just get slack jawed when you ask if it was so simple why not do it today? like how did they forget something so simple? if it only took basic tools then why do we struggle with such precision today?
originally posted by: Fylgje
Well, if it's so easy for a primitive people to quarry 150 ton+ stones and move them miles to their destination, then carve them with primitive tools to very good precision, and then build a temple - then why doesn't a lot of people do it now, or since then???
Why build a home or building the way we do??? Modern things decay very fast but the ancient structures still stand. If it were that easy everybody would've been doin' it throughout history.
I would like to see somebody go cut a 150 ton stone with primitive tools. Then, move it 50 miles. Then, carve it to precision with primitive tools and make it fit together with many other stones and stack them. Replicate what's been built and I will believe it. Until then, No. Not buying it.
originally posted by: conundrummer
Megalithic structures are not said to be easy to build, just possible using simple tools and lots of manual labor. In fact, the point of them is usually that they're NOT easy to build, so they convey a sense of wonder.
originally posted by: igor_ats
originally posted by: conundrummer
Megalithic structures are not said to be easy to build, just possible using simple tools and lots of manual labor. In fact, the point of them is usually that they're NOT easy to build, so they convey a sense of wonder.
Umm, perfectly straight lines, right angles and structures that fit perfectly with no gaps, cutting very hard/dense stones perfectly that modern tools cannot replicate etc. has not been replicated.
Unless there is a video showing how these primitive tools did such things.
originally posted by: igor_ats
originally posted by: conundrummer
Megalithic structures are not said to be easy to build, just possible using simple tools and lots of manual labor. In fact, the point of them is usually that they're NOT easy to build, so they convey a sense of wonder.
Umm, perfectly straight lines, right angles and structures that fit perfectly with no gaps, cutting very hard/dense stones perfectly that modern tools cannot replicate etc. has not been replicated.
Unless there is a video showing how these primitive tools did such things.
originally posted by: ZetaRediculian
originally posted by: igor_ats
originally posted by: conundrummer
Megalithic structures are not said to be easy to build, just possible using simple tools and lots of manual labor. In fact, the point of them is usually that they're NOT easy to build, so they convey a sense of wonder.
Umm, perfectly straight lines, right angles and structures that fit perfectly with no gaps, cutting very hard/dense stones perfectly that modern tools cannot replicate etc. has not been replicated.
Unless there is a video showing how these primitive tools did such things.