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Originally posted by TheBorg
I'm not. Think about it for a minute. How did all of the different kinds of people come to be? Recently, there was a Chinese settlement found on the Yanghtzie River(spelling?), and they said that this site was a "hub of civilization" for the Chinese people. What bothers me is that if you take that, and piece it together with all of the other hubs, you begin to see a disturbing trend appearing. How could so many cultures be created separately on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere? It just doesn't make any sense to me, I'm sorry.
The old artifacts do nothing but support my theory that either we came from elsewhere, or someone was here before us, and these things were left as a sign to us to get the heck off this rock before we become like them. Just a thought. And to tell me not to use ancient artifacts to support my hypotheses is kinda like asking you to not use math to show that 2+2=4. Just not plausable. Culture, I understand is easily fixed, but ancient artifacts aren't. There have been golden planes found in South America dating back to well before the time of Christ, or so my history teaches. As always, lemme know what you think.
Originally posted by StrangeLands
Well, jakko, this is kind of what I'm talking about.
I told you why you were wrong on a great many occassions. They reason I haven't replied word-for-word to your last post is that it contained no points of interest, other than the same old tired "this is Christianity and this isn't because I say so" routine. As I mentioned before, you relentless denial of any argument isn't getting us anywhere. I leave those others who follow these debates to decide for themselves who made a more convincing case. Perhaps you've converted a few agnostics, perhaps not - but I realise I'll never change your mind, and I'm damn sure you won't change mine.
This is neither an excuse, nor a declaration of submission. When we meet again on these boards - and I guarantee that we will - I'll contest new and interesting topics with you until we reach this same dull conclusion. I just don't see the point in wasting everyone's time (and ATS' bandwith) repeating the same points. I have stated that I believe your position to be fundamentally compromised, you refuse to meet the meat of my challenges. Very well.
If you truly believe, in your heart of hearts, that you've "beaten" me, then yay for you. I think others might see it differently. Now please, leave yourself some scrap of dignity and don't let this descend into feeble name-calling.
Originally posted by Preest
Originally posted by TheBorg
I'm not. Think about it for a minute. How did all of the different kinds of people come to be? Recently, there was a Chinese settlement found on the Yanghtzie River(spelling?), and they said that this site was a "hub of civilization" for the Chinese people. What bothers me is that if you take that, and piece it together with all of the other hubs, you begin to see a disturbing trend appearing. How could so many cultures be created separately on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere? It just doesn't make any sense to me, I'm sorry.
The old artifacts do nothing but support my theory that either we came from elsewhere, or someone was here before us, and these things were left as a sign to us to get the heck off this rock before we become like them. Just a thought. And to tell me not to use ancient artifacts to support my hypotheses is kinda like asking you to not use math to show that 2+2=4. Just not plausable. Culture, I understand is easily fixed, but ancient artifacts aren't. There have been golden planes found in South America dating back to well before the time of Christ, or so my history teaches. As always, lemme know what you think.
In one post you shout and demand that people not take the Bible out of context regarding Lucifer and Satan but then readily take other cultures ancient artifacts and creation myths out of context to support your own theory that we were "placed" on Earth...ironic.
There are artifacts that cannot be readily explained but it's illogical to jump to the conclusion that it's unexplainable nature means there's an extraterrestrial influence. The model of the golden plane from S. America is an intruiging artifact but it's existence can be explained in many ways from being planted by an overzealous archaeologist to being created from a vision one of the S. American indians may have "seen". My first thought regarding the golden plane was not aliens or intelligent design.
If there was true undeniable evidence that we were "placed" here on Earth there wouldn't be any room for me to say you're incorrect. It's simply an interpretation of artifacts and creation myths taken out of context by fringe speakers untrained in the identification and translation of artifacts and creation myths of the indigenous peoples they belong to and taught half assed in books put out by Avon.
Originally posted by spwan
i belive that there is only one thing to eplain our exsistance on this planet, and that is pura and utta LUCK. Even if aliens from a far away galaxy brought us here its still luck that we exsist.
Originally posted by Paraclete
Pure luck? No way. We had to come from somewhere. The other thing is the extremely fragile balance of all nature, our entire solar system that allows us to exist.
Originally posted by Iridium 90
1. but yet, they cannot embrace the fact, that there might not be a God.
2. For every grain of sand on every beach, there are countless more Stars in a Galaxy, for every grain of sand on every beach, there are more Galaxies in our Universe.
Originally posted by StrangeLands
Originally posted by Raphael
If you ever see an alien claiming to be God do not believe it because no alien created the earth or the heavens.
Originally posted by Raphael
My guess is God is from the most powerfull civilization in the universe
So which is it, Raph?
I thank you, by the way, for answering all of my earlier questions. Well, all except the first one. For the purposes of understanding your frequent predictions and declarations, I'll ask again.
Where is your evidence?
Anything will do! A single unarguable, beyond-debunking nugget of truth will suffice - but without it, this argument is doomed to be nothing more than metaphysical posturing and bickering over semantics.
Reject religion! Embrace rationality! We're all nice people, I promise - *our* Cathedrals sell paperbacks at a reasonable price and have coffee shops in them!