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You Don’t Believe in Aliens? That’s Ridiculous!
By mentor24 | August 11, 2008
It used to be that if you admitted to believing in aliens you were subject to severe ridicule. Not so much any more. A recent poll conducted by the Scripps Howard News Service showed that 56% of American adults believe that it is likely that aliens exist, while only 35% believed it is unlikely and 9% were uncertain.
And Americans are the the skeptics. Asians are more convinced. A poll conducted in in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and Korea showed that 64% of Asian adults there is intelligent life on other planets.
To be accurate, the American poll showed that only one third of people believe it’s likely that aliens have actually visited Earth. But still, that’s hardly a fringe movement. Believing in aliens is mainstream.
That really shouldn’t be surprising given the massive amount of supporting evidence. The Scripps poll also showed that one in 12 people have actually seen a UFO personally, and one in five know someone who has. And if you haven’t seen one in real life, there certainly is no lack of video evidence on TV and the Internet. There is so much compelling footage that it actually seems less likely that Occam’s Razor might suggest it is more likely that ther are actually aliens than that all that material could have been so convincingly faked by so many different people.
And then there’s the secret UFO archives of France’s National Center for Space Studies website. The government institution posted more than 100,000 pages of witness testimony, photographs, film footage and audiotapes it had collected since 1954.
And if all that wasn’t enough, there have been some very credible proponents of the theory, most famously Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who has stated publicly that he believes aliens have visited Earth and that governments are covering it up.
And why should it even take so much evidence to convince us? Think about it logically. We’ve already discovered over 300 planets orbiting other stars, many of them Earthlike in composition. Given the number of stars in our galaxy, simple probabilities dictate that there are many billions of planets like ours. And given that there at least one of these (ours) is teaming with life, and at least one other one (Mars) has H2O, it follows that there must be a vast number of life-supporting planets. Knowing what we know about life, we know that some percentage of those planets must have given rise to intelligent life. And some percentage of those must have evolved to very advanced states over millions of years.  So you either have to argue that humans are completely unique in the entire universe, or that there are many highly advanced civilizations out there. Which is more likely?
And if there are highly advanced beings in our galaxy, what are the odds that not one of them would notice this very interesting planet where the inhabitants are building space ships, nuclear bombs and black hole generating super colliders?  Of course they’re going to come check us out.
So abundant is the evidence for aliens that these days when you see debates between believers and debunkers it is the debunkers who seem to be reaching for specious arguments in support of their position.  The idea that we’re alone in the universe sounds silly to most people, as the polls show. Invariably, when pressed into a corner by the overwhelming evidence, debunkers fall back on their old chestnut–Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Their claim is that aliens couldn’t possibly visit Earth because the laws of physics wouldn’t allow it. Since they can’t travel faster than the speed of light, it would take them far too long to finally reach Earth.  But that is probably the weakest argument of all. First, quantum mechanics has shown relativity to be an incomplete theory.  Einstein died trying to find the missing key to complete his theory, but now, nearly 100 years after the theory was first published, quantum physics suggests that the light barrier is anything but unbreakable. We don’t fully understand how wormholes or time travel work, but quantum theory all but proves that they are real.
Now if we are advanced enough to figure that out, what is more likely: that a 100 year old, incomplete theory is the final word on space travel? Or that advanced alien civilizations that have existed for thousands or even millions of years have figured out how to use wormholes to visit Earth?
To me the evidence and the logic are so compelling that I don’t see how anyone could not believe in aliens. But I would love to hear some reasonable arguments to support the other side.
Meanwhile, assuming aliens are actively visiting Earth, the big question is, what’s their plan? Are they manipulating our leaders? Steering us to our ultimate doom? Or are they guardians trying to help us navigate through a tough time. Are they engineering a planet full of slaves? Or grooming us to enter the galactic community?
What do you think?
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