Replies

What, no reaction to the story I linked, quoting Hawking? Or the story in post 169? Why don’t you at least be intellectually honest and read what Hawking has to say? Here, I’ll pick out one quote:

“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”

Now, do you want to adapt your analysis of Hawking’s belief, or do you want to bury your head in the sand and remind me of a liberal democrat? Your choice. By the way, I don’t antagonistic until someone starts throwing unwarranted insults my way, for instance, calling me delusional.

Also, for what it’s worth, the truth most certainly does not offend me. As a scientist, I search for it unsarcastically and with an open mind.

You don't read very well, do you? I stated in my reply that, to quote it exactly:

"There is a vast, vast difference between understanding the mathematics of probability and the possibility of life on other planets and believing that E.T. has been flitting around Paducah."

Perhaps you need a little intellectual honesty.

There is nothing in that article that conflicts with what I said. Believing the the possibility, or even probability that there is life on other planets (something I have always taken as a given) is not the same as believing that aliens have been buzzing our planet, as much as you tin-hats would like to equate the two.

You are the one remeniscent of a liberal, not completely reading reading what is written, which, quite apparently, you are incapable of doing, projecting words and thought on me which I did not say.

Show me, give me one quote from that article in which Hawking says that we have been visited by aliens. The quotation which you threw at me certainly doesn't.

Apparently you are not the honest evaluator of fact that a "scientist" must be. You have intentionally misrepresented both what Hawking said and what I have said.

Here's a little something to help you in this discussion, from the first line in the original post.

"Some UFOs are intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft, and this is the biggest story of the millennium."

NOw reconcile that with Hawkings statements . . . Mr. "scientist."