{"id":280,"date":"2021-06-21T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:08:02","slug":"angels-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/angels-and-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels And Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There exist some phenomena that we find difficult to explain with our current level of technology.&nbsp; How was the Great Pyramid built, using the technology available to the ancient Egyptians?&nbsp; In order to build this Pyramid, they would have had to set a block of stone, weighing tons, every two and a half minutes.&nbsp; How could they have cut and moved such immense blocks?&nbsp; We couldn&#8217;t do that even today.&nbsp; Similarly, how could humans have built Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, and the other megalithic structures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In more recent times we often see objects in the sky that seem to move in ways that are impossible, according to our present understanding of physics.&nbsp; They fly at enormous speeds, stop suddenly, change directions so quickly that inertial forces would be fatal to anyone inside; yet we have many sightings, often captured on video, radar, infrared, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">One explanation for these phenomena is that they are or were the results of alien activity.&nbsp; Aliens helped build the Pyramids and other megaliths.&nbsp; Aliens are behind the UFO&#8217;s.&nbsp; When there are unexplained phenomena that seem beyond our abilities, it must be aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The problem with this explanation is that there isn&#8217;t credible evidence of aliens.&nbsp; At most we have some phenomena we can&#8217;t explain at the moment.&nbsp; It may well be that some explanation will be found that eliminates the mystery.&nbsp; But even if not, it doesn&#8217;t have to be aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Replace the word, &#8220;aliens&#8221; with the word &#8220;angels,&#8221; and nothing changes.&nbsp; The Pyramids were build by angels.&nbsp; UFO&#8217;s are controlled by angels.&nbsp; Why should it be reasonable to say aliens are responsible, but unreasonable to claim that it&#8217;s angels?&nbsp; What evidence do we have to prefer one over the other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The evidence for angels is as credible as the evidence for aliens.&nbsp; We might claim that what we call angels were actually aliens, seen by people living in more superstitious times.&nbsp; But that cuts both ways.&nbsp; Why couldn&#8217;t it be that what we call aliens are simply angels that appear in a more materialistic time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to explain mysterious phenomena by claiming it was aliens is as useless as blaming angels.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t know how it was done.&nbsp; The most likely explanation is that megaliths were built by humans; and UFO&#8217;s are probably natural phenomena or man-made technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There exist some phenomena that we find difficult to explain with our current level of technology.&nbsp; 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