Get ready to put on your tin foil hats.
Some people claim that the US is a God-fearing Christian nation of church going believers, but what does actual polling show?
Here is what appears to be good news for these people:
God exists 79%
Atheist/Agnostic 21%
(God is smiling)
But how serious are these God believers?
Only 38% go to church regularly.
(God is now somewhat frowning)
How many people in the US believe in UFOs?
The answer is 50%. 50% of Americans believe in UFOs and only 38% go to church regularly.
(Now God is really frowning)
Here is some more interesting polling:
75% claimed to have experienced non-religious paranormal phenomena.
50% said they believe in ESP. More people believe in ESP than people who go to church regularly.
People who said they believe in ghosts – 38%. Same number as church goers.
Almost as many people said they believe in Telepathy (mind reading) – 33% and Clarivoyance – 32%.
Coming in somewhat behind: Reincarnation and Astrology – both 25%.
(God is now planning hurricanes and earthquakes and contacting Pat Robertson)
Poll sources: Gallop, ABC, and Harris.
Spock: Captain, my tricorder readings show… nothing… ?
Kirk: Then, it must be… “him”
Bones: *I’ll bet that pointy-eared Vulcan is behind this…*
God: Prepare to beam-up!
But how many atheists believe in ghosts, UFO’s or even pat Robertson?
Credable scientists are starting to come to the realization that there is insurmountable evidence that there may be UFO’s or aliens. But there is so far no evidence for anything besides the basic observation that there are UFO’s that probably are not from earth. Such as, no one can come up with even a scrap of evidence of who they are or what they want, what their motives are, and if they are trying to communicate.
My take on the situation is that they are trying to slowly get us used to the idea that they exist. I do not believe they will flatout communicate with us like show up on TV or talk to us over the radio until we solve a MOUNTAIN of social problems that we as a species need to fix. Otherwise the only way they would come out is if we found them and they were unable to hide from us anymore. I currently only think that would be possible if we accidently found their home planet and sent a probe to it and we found out for ourself that they exist without a doubt.
That may be the absolute best way actually. By the time we found them and got a probe to their planet, we would have probably goten WW3 overwith and the social MOUNTAIN of problems we have would probably just be a hill by then. So I am thinking somewhere around the year 2250. Hopefuly our life spans will increase drasticly soon. Im only 22 so maby I will have a slim chance of seeing it. :P
There are so many stories from so many cultures over such a long period of time that about so many things which can be called paranormal that it really seems strange that science has such a strong negative feeling about them.
Surely, just to look at some of the Hubble telescope pictures of deep space, littered with galaxies, is enough to make anyone seriously doubt that we are the only beings in the universe.
As for ghosts and the like, whyever not? After all, there are still so many things which can’t easily be explained away as simple delusion. After all, we’ve all had strange experiences, haven’t we?
Respectfully, science as a discipline doesn’t approach concepts with feelings, negative or otherwise.
Science requires data and sound logic. So far all valid scientific research done into paranormal phenomena (ESP, telekenisis, ghosts, astral travel, telepathy, astrology, prayer, etc…) has come up with negative results (nothing).
That’s why you won’t hear a lot of scientific thought that is positive towards the paranormal. Often scientists assert the correct position of being agnostic about such things until there is some sort of supporting data.
Most people do experience things that they can’t explain, but it doesn’t follow that they are UFOs or the paranormal. Many times it’s either chance or the person just misunderstood what they saw and there is a rational explaination.
One time a railroad engineer backed his train off it’s tracks because he was convinced another train was coming towards him for a certain head on collision.
The train turned out to be Venus rising just over the oncoming railroad tracks which the engineer misunderstood to be a locomotive headlamp.
“Science requires data and sound logic.” Yet it proves what was fact yesterday as false today. Frauds over all scientific fields. Now this dosen’t sound like logic to me, and it is surely not backed up by data if it was correct yesterday and incorrect today, tomorrow it will be neither what was true yesterday, or today, but “New” Facts for tomorrow concerning things that are fact today just disproves God, and questionable or “strange” happenings that may be venus rising in the distance.
(ad hominem attack snipped)
Science is self-correcting which is an extremely good thing. There’s nothing fraudulent about that.
Science isn’t the black-and-white world of religion and superstition where something is true and never changes forever no matter how contrary to the facts it obviously eventually becomes.
I’m disturbed by the current trend in U.S. politics of asserting someone is somehow inferior if they change their mind as more facts come to light, a “flip-flopper or a “waffler” if you please.
Being a so called “flip-flopper” or “waffler” is at the basis of science. Science is about having the courage to admit you are wrong and correct yourself, the antithesis of religion and superstition and apparently out of style among current American politics as presented by some of the so-called “pundits” of the media.
Scientists are often “for something before they are against it.” It’s all about the supporting data and logic. As I said science is self-correcting and we should be very happy about this because otherwise we’d still be trying to cast demons out of a convulsing child rather than having a surgeon remove their infected appendix.
Why not believe in Aliens, the universe is huge.. I find it natural that so many belive in some extraterrestrial life while doubting the religion. Religion afterall is on a whole other level, not scientific (in these highly scientific days)
I am certain there is life on other planets, even intelligent life – the universe is just way too large and vast to not have it. I am also just as certain that they have never visited Earth. What possible reason would they have to hide? If they have the technology to traverse the vast distance of space then we are less than insects to them. When was the last time you hid from an insect? Most times you step on them and not even know it or care.
We have found so many extrasolar planets which exist outside our galaxy that it’s amazing. We have found other planets like our own and even found planets within the habitable zone distance from some stars. Of course, without being able to get closer we can only get a rough idea of whether these extrasolar planets can actually support life, but, regardless we have found SO many that I think the odds are great that there is life on other planets out there. Unfortunately even traveling at NEAR the speed of light these planets are so ridiculously far away from us that we would all be dead before we got to any of these planets. The reality is we would either have to break the speed of light barrier somehow OR another possibility is that space (matter) does not exist as we think it does and we can perform a… (tesseract?) The general concept is you simply change where you are instantly because space does not exist so in reality you are everywhere and nowhere at once. (yin yang universe, do a google for “matter does not exist” for more info on this theory.) So basically in theory I am standing here on earth and I wave my magic wand (or something way more technical) and I am out near Glieus whatever extrasolar planet instead of where I am currently. This is of course just an interesting theory, yet it is likely the only one short of sending humans in stasis sleep (very dangerous) or creating some sort of massive ship people can live on. (very hard to find energy when you get far away from the suns/stars) (the voyager probes which are just now in the heliosphere are going to run out of power cause of no power source.) BTW those Voyager probes were launched decades ago and they are just now “starting” to exit our own galaxy.
Anyways my MAIN point…….If it is not possible to go as fast / faster than speed of light and or not possible to tesseract from one place to another than I can honestly state that we have in no way been visited by aliens.
Of course I cannot prove anything this is all just purely speculation. Anything is possible until I can scientifically prove that it is not. I cannot disprove any possibility, I can simply state the facts that I know. I am science, this is science.