Separating belief in ET life from belief in UFOs

Well they do accept an abduction story (resurrection), even though they don't claim to have experienced one. I guess if you're too busy occupying your mind talking to an invisible celestial being, there's not much room there for other imagined things too, right?- Oni

Here's a funny TRUE story that happened to me in St. Mary's, Georgia.I'm having a beer at a military bar talking to a civilian who lives near by. Some how the talk gets into evolution and I explain how life may have emerged from chemicals found on any ordinary terestrial planet. I explain that there's probably many, many planets in our universe where some life has evolved; even just plant life and no animals. Maybe even planets that just have single celled organisms, or just bacteria, etc.He flat out isn't "buying" what I was saying (his words). And asked me how I could believe that when clearly God created everything like the Bible says. Which I expected him to say. And he was cool about it, joking and not getting angry.But here's where he shocks me (and I start laughing hysterically on the inside).He asks me: "Do you really think some planet out there is filled with just plants or some weird animals just doing nothing? That they just somehow evolved from mud and crap like that? That's crazy! ... Anyway, let me tell you this story about my cousins neighbor who says he was abducted..."What?! I asked myself, he doesn't believe that other things exist on other planets, but he believes that Aliens from other planets abducted his cousins neighbor? Is this guy fucking insane?But I didn't have the heart to call him on his cognitive dissonance (he would have thought that meant I called him a fag), so I made a joke about it. I said: "Wait, God made other people on other planets and gave those assholes spaceships, while we're stuck here?" And he (In a moment of clarity) said: "Yea... what a dick." And we both laughed hysterically.- Oni*Sorry if this was off-topic, Britanican.Edited by onifre, : No reason given.Edited by onifre, : No reason given.

I noticed that too. But really if you think about it, there isn't much to debate EvC related in astrobiology/chemistry that isn't already debated in abiogenesis.In fact, I don't think we have any astrobiologiest/chemist in the forum (that I'm aware of), do we, anyone?- Oni*I had to look up tangetial and paucity. And the only thing I know about the word "obtuse" is that Andy Dufrain got 2 months in the hole for saying that word to the warden.

The IPU on a black hoverboard? - OniBtw, that "homos" line in the other thread was hilarious! Edited by onifre, : No reason given.Edited by onifre, : No reason given.