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Originally posted by ItIsWhatItIs
We see something in the sky we cannot explain ("UFO") and since science cannot explain and we cannot admit ignorance, we attribute it to an extraterrestrial presense.
These things could be a natural phenomena we haven't studied yet.
"But the evidence is overwhelming"
Just as rediculous as it was to say thunder was god walking on the sky, it's just as rediculous to say some mystery phenomena in the sky is a spacecraft.
Originally posted by ItIsWhatItIs
Before science, people could not explain many things that were happening in the world. They did not know that rain is caused when droplets in clouds grow and combine to become so large that the updrafts in the clouds can no longer support them, and they fall to the ground. They did not know that tsunamis are caused by sudden motion on the ocean floor, be it an earthquake, eruption or landslide.
They saw things in nature, and in the sky, and had no explanation. So they attributed these things to god(s). It made sense to them because they had no idea what they were really looking at or what was really happening. Religion and beliefs in god(s) already existed, so it was easy to apply natural phenomena to them.
We see something in the sky we cannot explain ("UFO") and since science cannot explain and we cannot admit ignorance, we attribute it to an extraterrestrial presense. ETs already existed in our mind thanks to wild imaginations and hollywood. These things could be a natural phenomena we haven't studied yet.
Just as rediculous as it was to say thunder was god walking on the sky, it's just as rediculous to say some mystery phenomena in the sky is a spacecraft.
"But the evidence is overwhelming"
Then everyone would know it to be true but they don't. When people blamed natural phenomena on god(s), they had plenty of evidence of God's existence. Dreams, visions, hallucinations, paintings, artifacts (the arc, etc), so on and so forth.