Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs (bbc.com) 148
US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to "begin the process of identifying and releasing" government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life. From a report: Trump made the declaration in a post on Truth Social, after he accused Barack Obama earlier in the day of revealing classified information when the former president said "aliens are real" on a podcast last week. "He's not supposed to be doing that," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding: "He made a big mistake."
Asked if he also thinks aliens are real, Trump answered: "Well, I don't know if they're real or not." Former US President Obama told podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that he thinks aliens are real in an interview released last Saturday. "They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51," Obama said. "There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."
Asked if he also thinks aliens are real, Trump answered: "Well, I don't know if they're real or not." Former US President Obama told podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that he thinks aliens are real in an interview released last Saturday. "They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51," Obama said. "There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."
Obvious distraction is obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obvious distraction is obvious (Score:5, Informative)
Waiting for the dictator to die out is often a long and windy road. Better act now. Vote.
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If you mean Donanld Trump, he can't "let himself be voted out." His term expires with no (legal) possibility of extension. Just like the original Roman dictators, who were individual men given extraordinary powers in an emergency, for a set period of time.
The term you're looking for is "dictator for life." Some of those Roman dictators had a bit of a habit of not relinquishing power when they were supposed to and tried to appoint themselves dictators for life. Some were successful. "For life" even ended up
Re:Obvious distraction is obvious (Score:4, Informative)
How quickly we forget https://apnews.com/article/tru... [apnews.com]
Re:Obvious distraction is obvious (Score:4, Insightful)
The Epstein Regime will soon be over hopefully.
Opens first X file...
Race: Kiddifidlarians
Planet: Epstienius 7
Distinguishing features: Orange skin, small hands, mouth shaped into an O.
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Opens first X file...
You mean the X-stein files?
Re: Obvious distraction is obvious (Score:5, Informative)
Wait, then what were the Epstein files all about? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that what the Epstein files were all about? Beings so rich and powerful they don't exhibit typical human behaviors. I'm sure there was probing involved.
Seems pretty obvious (Score:5, Insightful)
With the arrest of ex-Prince Andrew, Trump is getting even more nervous and trying to deflect attention from the Epstein files.
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And here's an actual conspiracy to smear others as engaging in conspiracy theories. Project 2025 is real, the current administration is a "bunch of nazis", Trump is paid by Putin and assisted by Putin, Russia is not fighting Nazis in Ukraine AND there is credible evidence that Trump has "fucked kids".
"What can you do?"
Only how much you are paid to post your bullshit.
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Actually, Ukraine has real neo-nazi in their army. People who actually volunteered because besides being fools, they actually belief Russia is still communist and Nazi have extreme hate for communists, maybe as much as they have against Antifa. Despite Zelenskyy being Jewish, these real neo-nazi are useful, "the enemy of my enemy."
Re: Seems pretty obvious (Score:2)
According to people like you, project 2025 was just a fake/nothing serious/nothing that Trump planned to implement. Now your tune has changed to it not being "a conspiracy to take all our money and get us all poor like yourself". I wonder what will be your next iteration.
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Sadly I doubt that the Andrew thing will go very far. He might get a slap on the wrist. They are only looking at if he gave Epstein sensitive information as part of his job as ambassador. While it seems likely that he gave out the information in exchange for access to girls to rape, or because Epstein was blackmailing him, the chances of anything that harms Trump coming out of this are low.
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While it seems likely that he gave out the information in exchange for access to girls to rape, or because Epstein was blackmailing him, the chances of anything that harms Trump coming out of this are low.
He was involved with Epstein because of money. Epstein could funnel money to companies and organizations Andrew wanted funded. Getting girls for his friends was a side-hustle for Epstein. If you were that rich and powerful, you don't to to some money manager guy to get a prostitute, you just fly to Amsterdam. Now if you were at a party thrown by Epstein and there were girls there, and you are a sleazeball, you go for it.
There really isn't a lot of evidence of blackmail coming out. There might be, but I h
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With the arrest of ex-Prince Andrew, Trump is getting even more nervous and trying to deflect attention from the Epstein files.
Yup. There's also an election cycle starting up for midterms.
The Obama reference above is completely missing the fact that Obama made a silly joke about aliens being real, and Trump isn't smart enough to understand dry humor. On top of that, Trump is desperately scrambling to come up with anything to distract from his current worries, the Epstein files, and the coming midterm trouncing the Republicans deserve. He's already declared emergency powers over immigration. Can you imagine what powers he would need
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Can you imagine what powers he would need to declare if he can convince enough nutters that aliens are real?
This is the scary part to me. Imagine prolonged martial law to "root out" the alien species masquerading as humans.
I'll take "Get me the Fuck out of here" for $1000, Alex
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Don't worry, Trump will make sure the UFO files are redacted to ensure that none of the documents contain his name.
Anything to avoid the Epstein files. (Score:5, Insightful)
"Quick! Look! Aliens are real and Obama broke the law for saying so! Just stop looking at the Epstein files!" - The US Pedophile in Chief
Modest proposal (Score:2)
If we really want Trump to stop trashing America to distract us from his pedophilia, then I have a modest proposal which should solve this. I hope oldschool conservative Republicans will listen to me, because they're going to be the hardest to persuade. Fortunately the far-left (i.e. MAGA) Republican majority has already embraced and endorsed what I'm about to say, so I'm hoping the caucus can unify toward them instead of toward the conservatives. (But I still think conservative support would be good; you n
Re:Anything to avoid the Epstein files. (Score:5, Insightful)
The theory is that he's willing to protect the democrats in the files if it helps him and his cronies in getting away too.
But the very obviously selecting redacting of the files still speaks volumes about how the government is trying to shift the focus to anyone but their friends.
Like how Bill Barr, who closed the Epstein "suicide" investigation within days, is starting to pop up in documents at an alarming rate... For every democrat-aligned person in there, there's a dozen Repubs.
Just release it all. Nail everyone who's implicated in wrongdoing. Stop trying to distract from what is a way bigger scandal than Watergate.
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The difference is that ordinary people, and Democrats, are just fine with criminals going down, we believe in justice and the rule of law. Republicans don't, for them it's the law of the jungle so long as they have the guns.
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LOL going for the quantity paycheck. Better grab that money before Russia goes bankrupt. As Ben Shapiro, the money dries up eventually.
Re:Anything to avoid the Epstein files. (Score:5, Insightful)
Biden didn't interfere with the DOJ, that's Trump's thing. Biden had respect for the country. Garland was Biden's clearest failure, a better choice would have seen the worst criminal of our lifetimes prosecuted rather than reelected.
There are some very clear things here though, Trump is definitely covering up the Epstein information, so if it is "democrats" that are being protected then Trump must be a "democrat" lover. Shouldn't that be enough to get rid of him? Or do you forget the moment the subject is changed?
How many 9 year old girls is it acceptable to rape as long as you get your way? A few raped children is a small price to pay in order to murder some brown people and democrats, right?
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Biden didn't interfere with the DOJ, that's Trump's thing.
If we make it through Trump's presidency without a world war I will consider that a success.
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"Three, every sick pedo-loving devil worshipper is doing the same media manipulation that allowed them to get away with it for so long."
So, Trump. Of that everyone can agree.
"Your ignorance is becoming worse than the fucking crime, no thanks to your long-TDS infection."
TDS is believing that raping children is not bad when Trump is doing it. You're so close.
Guys literally only want one thing (Score:5, Insightful)
and is the REAL JFK killer in the files as well? (Score:5, Funny)
and is the REAL JFK killer in the files as well?
Vote that up... (Score:2)
Why do I never have mod points when I REALLY need them!?
I can't wait- (Score:5, Funny)
I hope trump outs himself by mistake (Score:2)
The important photo already leaked out: https://condenaststore.com/fea... [condenaststore.com]
Mod the Government "Off-Topic" (Score:5, Insightful)
Whether it be the Epstein files, JFK, or aliens, very little of the news we hear these days is actually about governing the country.
Re:Mod the Government "Off-Topic" (Score:4, Interesting)
The best we can hope for is to tie him up until after the midterms. If we are really lucky he won't start world War 3. And keep in mind he threatened to invade Greenland so I'm not exaggerating for affect here
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You can't do anything and your heroes are all part of the same system, so they will not do anything either. You are just too stupid and idealistic to see it... assuming you are arguing in good faith, which is the most likely possibility...
Re:Mod the Government "Off-Topic" (Score:4, Insightful)
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-Mencken 1920
Trump is a symptom of the diseased culture; ironically promoted by people who think there is cultural decline... fitting since they constantly fall for his projections and how he matches for the anti-christ. [youtube.com] They have a ton of defensive arguments because so many see he fits like a glove; more than anybody else I've ever heard accused.
Re:Mod the Government "Off-Topic" (Score:5, Informative)
Whether it be the Epstein files, JFK, or aliens, very little of the news we hear these days is actually about governing the country.
Ya, but Trump, his family and friends are making a LOT of money off this gig ... /s
It's good to be the king.
-- Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI in History of the World, Part I [wikipedia.org]
Hmm (Score:2)
The real reason (Score:2)
Trump heard about the jailbird prince and REALLY needs a distraction from the Epstein files.
Well, sure ... (Score:3)
Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs
That'll make it easier to deport them. /s
Obama was just talking about Zuckerberg (Score:3)
Talk about illegal aliens! (Score:3)
Will they send SPICE (Space ICE) after them?
The man is his own caricature. (Score:5, Insightful)
Whatever you suspect his motives to be at any given time... yeah. That's exactly what they are. Want to take the heat off one conspiracy? Throw the red meat of another to those same wolves. There's no subtlety or nuance to the mechanism. No deft sleight of hand or misdirection. Like his " I know you are but what am I?" approach, or the reliable way he accuses others of doing exactly what he is guilty of, the man's actions and defenses come straight out of the schoolyard.
It's actually one of his more endearing qualities - a kind of backhanded honesty in a way.
Re:The man is his own caricature. (Score:5, Insightful)
By himself, Trump is that simple. With people like Vought around him stroking him and pushing him in certain directions by repeating words until they stick in his demented brain, he can wind up doing things with lasting effects.
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I agree. I've been saying since the he was running his first bid that he is simple. He can't help himself. In a strange way he's as honest a politician as there is. But he surrounds himself with evil people, like shitty moths to a flame. They know better. But they are truly awful examples of humanity.
World ICE Patrol (Score:2)
If aliens do land on earth, ICE will capture them and place them in containment. They will learn Spanish. They will hate Trump. Shit, this could be a Netflix movie. Never mind.
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Try District 9 (2009). It uses aliens instead of people as an allegory for South African apartheid.
For something American but a bit older, you can look at Alien Nation (1988) or the television series that followed.
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Try District 9 (2009).
Was going to say the same thing. Interesting flick.
I believe Obama was quite clear. (Score:2)
It was Trump's pal Tony Blair who once said: populists don't, on the whole, invent grievances. They exploit them.
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So, towards which clear and unambiguous interpretation do you lean?
Hey Morons! (Score:2)
Don't think about that. Look at this. Aliens!
There's no room for secrecy ... (Score:2)
in a free and open society. That we have governments and corporations that cannot tell the truth tells us they are completely unethical. If they were doing good, they'd be showing off but since they're ashamed, they hide their actions. This is exactly what classism and crime looks likes
I thought they already did this (Score:2)
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Yes, Trump and his supporters have very limited memories.
The Epstein files must be pretty bad (Score:2)
The content of the Epstein files must be pretty bad for Trump, considering how much work he is putting into not releasing them despite a law to do so. In July 2025 Seth Meyers claimed: We’re just one Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real [theguardian.com], and it looks he's going down that path now.
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He's doing an outstanding job of gaslighting Democrats into immolating themselves. Larry Summers, gone. Bill Gates, gone, Obama's chief counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, gone.
"Hyatt executive chair Tom Pritzker steps down over Jeffrey Epstein ties" That's the brother of the Democratic governor of Illinois.
Then of course we have Andrew, (meme of the week, Get under the bus Andrew) and the Norwegian royal family isn't looking any better.
The Democrats have the problem and are projecting like mad trying to avoid facin
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https://www.nytimes.com/intera... [nytimes.com]
More on who is really in the Epstein files from a source that is not Fox News.
You might need to rethink your class biases.
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If it was "bad for Trump", why didn't that come out a couple years ago, when there were people with every reason to discredit him holding on to all that info?
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Yeah, he's working really hard to not release all that stuff they released.
Yes, he has been. But it's not trivial to make it go away. A lot of people are involved and it's hard not to leave tracks. He can't Epstein everyone.
words... (Score:5, Insightful)
"Aliens are real" is a completely different statement than "we have contact with aliens".
The first is a deduction. Given the size of the universe, it is incredibly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe.
Only the 2nd would be a bomb shell. And he didn't say that.
I've seen this movie (Score:3)
"There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."
It's like he's never seen Independence Day
Asking the real questions (Score:2)
As he clarified... (Score:2)
He was having fun with fast interviews. As he clarified, like the rest of us (except for idiots), there's aliens out there. Was he saying that they came here? NOPE.
Hell, I can prove they haven't contacted us.
I expect a lot of black pages (Score:2)
Re:I'm not saying there are aliens. (Score:4, Interesting)
I think Obama is trolling the Pedophile in Chief. Later Obama can state "It doesn't take much to get the Trump hooked on the latest conspiracy theory. I mentioned aliens to see if he would take the bait and he did. Cognitive decline affects us all."
Re: I'm not saying there are aliens. (Score:3)
"Why are you so focused on pedophiles?"
This guy doesn't understand why child rape bothers us. Someone should check his hard disk.
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Mod parent funny, even though the story already a bunch of it. The humor was all on the alien side (though the topic reminds me of a Jimmy Carr joke).
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I think it's so precious to hear people talk about "Trump Derangement Syndrome" when so many of those same now-MAGAts lost their minds as soon as Obama had the audacity to run for POTUS & still haven't recovered
Epstein Aliens ? (Score:5, Insightful)
There are probably many illegal aliens in the Epstein Files, but the criminals are the oligarchs.
Re:Epstein Aliens ? (Score:4, Insightful)
There are probably many illegal aliens in the Epstein Files, but the criminals are the oligarchs.
Erm.. its exactly the same with undocumented workers.
There's no shortage of them no matter how many get deported because there are rich locals willing to hire them... Considering that it's impossible to punish a rich white man in the US, it won't ever stop.
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Something you'll never see. The person whose signature is on those paychecks doing the perp walk in handcuffs.
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His clarification is basically that the universe is too big for there not to be other lifeforms out there.
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We'll be told that "V" was a documentary and nothing has changed since it aired in 1984.
This will explain everything.
No, nothing about science is a religion (Score:5, Informative)
A religion takes a collection of sacred writings as its inerrant source of facts. Science doesn't do that.
Science takes observations as facts, and builds testable, falsifiable models, theories, or laws from them. Whether a model, theory, or law survives depends on whether it can make accurate predictions or explanations of other observations. If it can't, then it is discarded. No faith or belief involved.
Now, scientists do form hunches and opinions, including on whether extraterrestrial life exists. They may engage in arguments about what contitutes possible evidence for it, and debate how and where such life could be found. But scientists are hard to convince, especially about something as extraordinary as the detection of extraterrestrial life. What would it take to convince them? As Carl Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordianry evidence." Scientists would temper their conviction of something by the strength or weakness of the evidence. They wouldn't just take something on "faith."
That said, there are many scientists who are religious. But they don't apply religious thinking when they're in their labs. They save that for their churches, temples, synagogues, mosques, and so on. They can keep those two parts of their lives separated.
And I give psychology a break here. Statistical variance in their data is typically much larger than in the physical sciences. The work psychologists do is worth doing, even though they cannot arrive at conclusions that are as precise. But they are still governed by evidence, just like other scientists.
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A religion takes a collection of sacred writings as its inerrant source of facts. Science doesn't do that.
* hears the Scientologist snort in the back *
Riiiight. /s
A “church” in America, has been reduced to mean that place where tax evaders go to get corruptly rich and pretend it’s not a sin by abusing “religion” by any means necessary. See Scientology’s path from science fiction to tax-free enlightenment as painful evidence.
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"...tax evaders go to get corruptly rich ..."
Yes of course, but religion didn't start with that, tax laws were devised to accommodate religion and make it possible. Religion has always been about exploiting people for wealth and power, tax evasion is just an invention to that end. Nevertheless, that is what a church in America is, for the most part.
The way ministers are compensated is appalling, it is difficult to imagine how any decent human being could consider it acceptable.
Science is now worse. (Score:2)
A religion takes a collection of sacred writings as its inerrant source of facts. Science doesn't do that.
Science takes observations as facts, and builds testable, falsifiable models, theories, or laws from them..
..and then takes all those factual results and runs it through the religion of politics, to ensure whatever sacred (most profitable/beneficial) outcome the sponsors want to see, comes to fruition.
Yes. We know scientists should know better. That’s what makes this worse. We should have not allowed the infection of the religion of politics to infect science. But it wouldn’t be very scientific to pretend this isn’t how “science” is often done today. A for accurate effort. C
Re:Science is now worse. (Score:5, Informative)
"..and then takes all those factual results and runs it through the religion of politics, to ensure whatever sacred (most profitable/beneficial) outcome the sponsors want to see, comes to fruition."
No, science doesn't do that. People do that.
"If science doesn’t push back more on the profit motive, it will be viewed as a religion. Because it is."
This is your failure, it is caused by you misattributing corruption to science. Science is a process, it is not corrupt, people are corrupt.
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If science doesn’t push back more on the profit motive
Science (especially the field you are talking about) is one of the worst paid and underfunded areas of education and advancement. If there was any profit motive at play here people wouldn't be studying this stuff.
Now there is a profit motive somewhere, it is the group asking you for donations on Sunday morning from with a building owned by a group with an incalculably high net worth given their assets all over the world from which they spread their good word.
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While that's how it is supposed to work, you do have to be careful with people abusing science for their own ends.
The classic example is scientific racism. It started centuries ago, as a way to justify slavery by "scientifically" proving that white people were superior and black people were simply meant to be dominated and controlled. More recently we have had things like The Bell Curve, which was arguing that some races are more intelligent than others, based on obviously flawed but "scientific" methodolog
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"No faith or belief involved."
Science is a process practiced by humans, belief is definitely involved. Humans are flawed, if they weren't "science" wouldn't exist in the vocabulary, everything would conform to scientific ideals. Science itself is predicated on "belief" being involved and science benefits from it while compensating for its weakness. You cannot separate the process from those doing it.
"Now, scientists do form hunches and opinions,..."
Right, because belief is involved.
"But scientists are hard
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I respect your contributions in other parts of this discussion. I am certain we agree on almost everything. However, I think you may have mis-parsed my post. I'll confess I may have been sloppy with my use of the words "belief" and "faith" -- and thanks for illustrating that.
You say my view of science is religious. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists may indeed form "beliefs" about things they are studying. But they test those beliefs against evidence. If these beliefs survive this analysis,
Re:Nah - too narrow a definition of religion (Score:5, Informative)
"Overall evolution is running out of explanation for the ever larger facts that are challenging its claims. The most obvious of these are the irreducible complexity of many biological mechanisms that make their spontaneous emergence an unreasonably unlikely event; a lot of the time the evolutionist position comes down to: 'of course it must have been evolution because I refuse to consider the alternative'. THAT is a faith statement ;)"
Ah, yet another variation on: gee, everything is sooooo complex, I don't understand it, therefore God. Grow up, grasshopper. There is no credible alternative to "evolution". God is not a credible alternative. Ever see him? Has he ever said squat to you? Can we test him for observations? No, no, and no.
"the irreducible complexity of many biological mechanisms that make their spontaneous emergence an unreasonably unlikely event;"
The irreducible complexity argument is right out of Intelligent Design, i.e., create a strawman and then declare him real. "spontaneous emergence", yep, and you understand nothing about evolution if that is what you think. "unreasonably unlikely event", Oh? So it is unfathomable to you so it must not have happened?
Try this, go to your bank and demand money because you cannot understand why they just don't just hand you a bag of it.
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God is not a credible alternative. Ever see him? Has he ever said squat to you? Can we test him for observations? No, no, and no.
Unfortunately a lot of people think he speaks directly to them. I only can't decide whether the biggest wingnuts are the ones who think they literally hear him or the ones who say shit like "I know god exists because my team won the fancy bucket"
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"I know god exists because my team won the fancy bucket"
No It was actually pee [youtube.com].
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"The most obvious of these are the irreducible complexity..."
You're running out of places to hide.
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A lot of people are mocking you, and for good reason; however, I would like to ask you in good faith, "What is the irreducible complexity" you speak of? Is it how individual cells come together to work as a whole? Is it even higher level than individual cells, like the eye? Where is this irreducible complexity"?
The reason why people are mocking you is because despite our collective desire to believe that God did it, we have found zero evidence pointing in that direction. That doesn't mean that "God did it"
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So: where is your proof that anyone ever tried to "proof" any god/ess or disprove a god/ess?
If religious people weren't anti-science then nobody would have to go looking for that, it would be well-documented everywhere.
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Replace the word "writings" with "dogma" and his post says the same thing as before, except without the nit you're picking.
BTW, the fact that nobody has found any facts at all (I couldn't help but notice that you were unable to mention a single one) which challenge evolution after over 150 years of some people really looking hard, is why it has been such an enduring theory. It's not 1860 anymore, and we've become a lot more certain (it's all a matter
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Thanks for your post. But on this:
If you really want to attack science and have at least a chance of landing solid punch, I recommend you attack physicists. Those people are on much less solid ground than biologists.
Really? I hardly think so. With all due respect to biology, physics has been blessed with an embarassment of riches when it comes to hard data on which to build theories. And these theories have held up quite well, in some cases with spectacular accuracy. Much of the modern world depends on them crucially.
If you want to attack less settled parts of physics, you might start with cosmology. This is an area where evidence is hard to come by, and yet progress is still made, bec
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I'm sure all the words on that page sound very impressive and complex to simple minds who have no desire to understand them.
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'A religion takes a collection of sacred writings as its inerrant source of facts.'
This reflects your background as only having encountered the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The other major religions are far less sacred writing oriented, whilst those of Africa have no authoritative sacred writings at all. See also Wicca...
Fair point. I was hesitant to use the word 'writings' for that reason, and now I regret it. Perhaps 'core beliefs' would have been better.
Overall evolution is running out of explanation for the ever larger facts that are challenging its claims. The most obvious of these are the irreducible complexity of many biological mechanisms that make their spontaneous emergence an unreasonably unlikely event; a lot of the time the evolutionist position comes down to: 'of course it must have been evolution because I refuse to consider the alternative'. THAT is a faith statement ;)
You then posted a link to the Institute for Creation Research. And that gives away your game. [wikipedia.org]
The evidence for evolution is overwhelming. Scientists accept it for that reason, not because they refuse to consider an alternative (or, as you say, the alternative of biblical creationism.)
You also misrepresent evolution as the explanation for "spontaneous emergence" of life --
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"...but this wouldn't pass as scientific evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life under any other lens."
It would pass as evidence of "possible existence" though. That's more than religion has. And faith doesn't have "positions", faith is feeling; faith isn't defined by a "lack of sufficient evidence", it is defined as belief outside of consideration of evidence. There can be both faith and evidence, it's only in religious contexts where that's consistently not true.
"Psychology has a higher evi
Re:There's tons and tons of evidence, no end of it (Score:4, Insightful)
The key letter in UFO is U. Whoever saw it or took a picture of it etc cannot identify it and doesn't know what it is.
That's also why you only see blurry photos, because if the photo was clear it wouldn't be an unidentified object anymore - you would know what it was, it would be something benign and the case would be closed.
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Oooh! I'll take the bet:
No UNDISPUTABLE AND DEFINITIVE PROOF of intelligent alien life will emerge in the next 12 months.
How much you're willing to bet?
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It wasn't that Biden wasn't doing stupid things. You have to remember who runs the mainstream media, what their political leanings are and who gets invited to press conferences.