I see you've been introduced.... /bow
Hello Vesta
So you don't believe in Bigfoot, Aliens or Unicorns may I ask "Why Not"?
Because the evidence I've seen convinces me that these things are not real in my experience. Am I making the absolute claim these things don't exist? No, when I see sufficent evidence, I will believe them, until I will continue to be skeptical.
How about flying dragons and dinosaurs, just because you have never had any interaction with them does not mean they do not exist or did not exist at one time.
Yes, but there is TONS of evidence for the existence of dinosaurs. So far as dragons, I have seen nothing that would lead me to believe that dragons that talk and breath fire, are real.
Who are you to decide what is or was true in the past or present. Ahh, proof, you want hand held eye seen proof, how many witnesses does it take to prove something until it is considered a fact ????
I never claimed that I was making a decision for anyone.
How much proof I need for something is in direct relation to the consequence of that thing. If you told me you stood on top of the church bell tower and
threw a basketball into a hoop 130ft below, I might call you full of crap, but if you insisted I may or may not concede you may have done it, because whether it's true or not has no bearing or consequence on my life. The video in the link shows that it's possible (
though video can be doctored)
Aliens are funny things, I do NOT believe they come from the stars, my theory is that they are us who have invented time travel way in the future.
And how does that belief affect your actions? If you say not at all, then your belief does not affect me at all. If you tell me that an alien has made you the supreme ruler of the earth and that I should bow before you, I'm gonna need a little more evidence (see how this works?)
Big foot, today we watch as the grizzly inter breeds with the Polar Bear---2 found so far. May be many kinds of mutations and interbreeding going on out there.
This reminds me of the "Black Swan". I can't remember the exact year, but there was a time when it was a "fact" that all swans were white. To say that swans came in other colors would be a false statement. When settlers went to Australia black swans were discovered. We simply integrated that fact and expanded our knowledge.
The question is, if someone made the statement that black swans existed prior to their discovery, would that have made them right? Should anyone thatmakes a claim that
might be true be taken seriously?
Think about the implication. I promise you the implication is inversely proportional to the consequences.
The Unicorn may possibly come from the past Mongels that placed covers over their horses heads with a spike in the middle. The Chinese did invent low weight armor for their horse's not they or a lost civilization go one step further with a spike or spikes on their horses heads.????
I think what you're describing is a horse with a metal spike strapped on it's head, but I'd agree that the belief in a creature that is born and grows naturally to have a spkie on it's head was probably inspired by the stories you've just described (but again, my acceptance of your explanation is proportional to the consequences, which in this case are small to not at all).
Give me a break here, when you go into a hospetal you expect your doctor and nurses to wash their hands before any procedure. Why, Germs no one can see without special equipment.
But you can see evidence of germs and Bactria without "special equipment". Try this experiment. Take a piece of bread, cut it in half. Put 1/2 in the freezer and the other half on the counter. Or boil chicken broth and pour 1/2 of it in a jar and seal it and the other 1/2 in a bowl on the counter. Now watch watch what happens to the bread and broth on the counter. We see evidence that something, something has begun to happen. Now of course eventually we see the mold, but we never "saw" it approch the bread. We know it must have approached the bread, because the soup in the jar and bread in the freezer aren't changing.
You Uncommon are a stuck in the mud foggy that just goes with the flow of what ever is popular at the time.
My beliefs have nothing to do with popularity as science is not a democracy.
