Back in time in some areas when the white man stepped off the boat the natives mistook them for gods, something similar might have happened that gave rise to Christianity. god in the image of man? Why would god have the need for a mouth, or ears or eyes? Does he need feet to walk the heavens? Does he need hands to hold something? Does he eat? He has male genetalia and he is having sex with whom? This does not make any sense. Obviously we have this shape because we live on this earth. Could it be that the ???god??? that the bible was talking about was actually an alien from another planet, a planet similar to ours so he looks like us? Are we no better than those natives who mistook a white man for god?
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(In one famous encounter, Persinger tried to induce a religious experience in the mind of atheist Richard Dawkins. Alas, Dawkins apparently has a low level of temporal-lobe sensitivity, so his brain did not react as much as others’) to the magnetic stimulation.
Simple physics, scientists say, makes intergalactic space travel close to impossible. An international research team studied whether teleporting people—that is, transporting them by transmitting information about their composition, like sending a fax—is possible. The answer is yes, but it would require 100 million centuries to transfer the data of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits. "It would be easier to walk," cracks Samuel Braunstein, a computer science professor at the University of York.
Proving the absence of something is always harder than proving the presence of something, so the UFO sightings continue. "You cannot disprove a negative," says Park, the author of "Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud," a tour of various forms of questionable "scientific" beliefs. "You can't prove that there wasn't a UFO." The best anyone can do, says Schick, is gather facts and see what theory best fits those facts. "You have to compare the UFO explanation to other explanations," he says.
The mirror image of the belief in UFOs is disbelief in historic events, like the moon landing. Carl Everett, a one-time All-Star baseball player with the Boston Red Sox, evoked hoots in 2000 when he told Sports Illustrated, "Yeah, that could have happened. It's possible. That is something you could prove. You can't prove dinosaurs ever existed. I feel it's far-fetched."
Scientists defend UFO believers against charges that they're psychologically deranged. People who report UFO sightings and abductions, a 1993 study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology concluded, are just as intelligent, psychologically healthy, and free of fantasies as people without such experiences. People with UFO experiences differed on only one known measure: sleep deprivation.
The problem is not that UFO sighters are imbalanced, some scientists say, but rather that they do not scrutinize their experiences adequately—which is often hard to do, because the environment is filled with mysterious phenomena. "How many people know about stealth bombers being escorted by fighter jets?" asks Michael Shermer, the author of "Why People Believe Weird Things." "I have to say, it's the spookiest thing I've ever seen. Maybe that's what they saw [in Stephenville]."
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