Monday 5 March 2018

UFOs Yes or No?

Are there ETs out there and have they visited?


This topic is guaranteed to get a discussion going almost anywhere so why not here?

For my part I fully believe in aliens and visits to earth would not surprise me at all. How's that for an opening?

Regarding their existence, to me this is the same debate as its cousin about the creation of humans and Earth itself. Most people either believe in a theory based on physics or one based on religion. Unfortunately some of those in the religious camp are probably angry already because for the most fervent of them you can't even question this. I disagree as I do with most things about religion. Neither of the theories has actually been proven, so I go with my gut and what makes common sense to me.

When I hear estimates of the numbers of stars and other objects that exist in the universe, my eyes gloss over. I can't even appreciate numbers that large. They are like the number of grains of sand in the Sahara Desert, Myrtle Beach, or the floor of the ocean. It is difficult for most people to get a feeling for such quantities.

Permit me to assume that people on both sides of this divide would agree that there are vast numbers of "heavenly" bodies out there. The exact number doesn't really matter. What does matter is the analogy that Earth probably represents only one of those single grains of sand in any of those places mentioned above.

So if a Supreme Being or deity - male, female, or something else we can't even comprehend, created Earth and us then why stop at one? Anyone or any thing with such capabilities surely would conduct more than one such experiment.

On the other hand if a natural and more physical formation took place then I can't possibly accept that whatever happened to form earth and all of its inhabitants did not happen elsewhere or at least something very, very close to it.

So:
Religious Theory? There must be many more supreme creations out there. Maybe there are even millions of deities as well all doing similar things. That would make us mere laboratory rats in a heavenly contest. The belief that there is only one all powerful God in the universe only exists because some men wrote some books. They just happened to be the only ones at the time who knew how. They could have written anything they desired and for any number of reasons - selfish or not.

Physics and Natural Selection Theories? Same argument. If a Big Bang created our galaxy and everything in it there are likely huge numbers of other galaxies out there.

Here is an often overlooked point. Both of these theories are based upon the published personal thoughts of a relatively few male scholars - women were not taken seriously at one time or even permitted higher education. The masses really didn't have the means of launching counter-arguments. Even in the time of Darwin in the 1800's higher education was probably the preserve of men. Copernicus in the 1400's envisaged our first notions of earth travelling around the sun. Not many could challenge him. Imagine many centuries before that how someone teaching from their own writings could convince the less educated..

People believed what they had been told and that most often came from written theories or at least powerful orators. Look what happened in more modern times at Jonestown. A single man lead many people to their own death.

Now for visitation. Based once again on sheer numbers surely there are creatures out there more advanced than we are. That is difficult for many earthlings to accept. You can find on the internet alleged witnesses to the little man at Roswell. I believe something did indeed happen.

Perhaps there are logical reasons why there have been so few visits. We face the same challenges in space travel. Firstly the ability to travel such great distances is a huge problem. How are the craft powered? Secondly, those on board have to stay alive with basic food and water. The odds of aliens visiting our little grain of sand out of all of the others are small.

I leave you with this. Do you believe in time machines like the ones you have seen in movies? Why not? Walk outside tonight and look at the stars. Your earthly perception called vision is taking in events that happened many millions of years ago. That last part involves our sense of time and people like Einstein thought we have a very limited understanding of it. But there they are - those stars are captured in your brain now but what you are seeing happened a very long time ago. If you could possibly see an image of people on that star which was formed 200 million years ago, they will never be able to see your image by the time your images reach them 200 million years from now. In our terms that would be 400 million years into their future!

Are your eyes glossed over yet? Join the crowd. We are only Earthlings. 

A belated welcome to our visitors,

The Brewster






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