Abramelin, on 26 February 2013 - 09:09 PM, said:
I thought it wasn't such a bad idea to restart with a reply to the second post of the one who started this thread: a devout Christian.
It now appears to me that those who believe in the AA theory may be of the religious kind: if it sounds great and if it's ancient, then it must be true.
The Christians believe Jesus was born of a virgin, walked on water, raised the dead, cured the crippled, changed water into wine (my favorite trick), and so on.
If they are willing to believe in all that, then of course some of them are willing to believe it were super-intelligent aliens who built the ancient structures.
It is nothing but a modern extension of their already present gullability.
oh dear, it's time to knock that old favourite standby punchbag, Religion (i.e. Christianity), again. *yawn* If the loony religious nuts are gullible enough to believe all that nonsense, they'll beleive any old nonsense, is that basically what you're saying? It's always funny that those who are keen to distance themselves from christianity, or religion as a whole, always seem to be rather dogmatic about insisting what one must believe if one is superstitious & gullible enough to not have seen the light of the golden uplands of Rationality. If, as you'd probably also insist, one also has to believe in the creation stories in Genesis et al, wouldn't there be a rather awkward incompatibility between those two versions? An Earth that God created and which is the only place with itnelligent life in the universe, and then ETs descend in fiery chariiots? That would raise a few theological questions, wouldn't it?
But oh dear, this is turning into Spirituality v. Skepticism, something I usually try to keep well clear of, so I don't think I'll go down thisroad any further.