Now who would be you are better off believing? Albert Einstein or Stanton Friedman? Hmmm.... Most people would choose Einstein. However a belief in alien visitation has less to do with physics and more with evolutionary biology. Humans are the only species known that are capable of advanced mystical thinking. Some believe in ghosts, goblins, ghouls. Others are gratified with yoga, pet rocks, astrology and seyonces. Some think deeply and have their emotional and need for mystical expression exercised by a belief in aliens and an entire narrative that goes with it. That is not to mock mysticism. The human capacity for mysticism may be critical for creativity and inquiry as well as emotional gratification. In the final analysis, physical alien visitation is just not possible, however desperate and important it is for some people to fervently hope it to be true.
What he said; with some ‘mystical’ reservations...
We kind of enjoy it when smug hyper-rationalists have to re-calibrate their rationalizations for their tidy world views/cosmologies.
In the final analysis, physical alien visitation is just not possible, however desperate and important it is for some people to fervently hope it to be true.
Tell that to the more than 3 million abductees in the USA alone.
I guess you can't tell it to the individuals who were mutilated exactly as the cattle routinely are--but were they able, they'd laugh in your face, too.
Qx has had 2 different adult friends--the fathers of both men--Qx's friends did not know each other--both their fathers had significant roles to play in the Philadelphia Experiment and asserted that the freaky stuff really happened.