No ID = A Paradox

[QUOTE] by satcomm++++++++++++++++
Most first-world countries would recognize technology for what it is. SAI or not, there would be debate. Not everyone, especially scientists, would accept it as "magic" or "divinity"; especially coming from an alien origin. This is, of course, assuming that there is technology out there in the universe that is superior to our own.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++You seem to have totally missed the point. First world countries would only "recognize" first world technology, or technology which could be predicted by first world paradigms.In the Cargo Cult cultures, there may have been a few "scientists" among them who said, "could these not be men?" and got shouted down by the rest who refused to ask the question. And eventually they could have collapsed under their inability to comprehend the technology they were witnessing.The point is that at a certain level of technology difference, one loses the ability to determine what is of "alien origin" versus "divine origin."It is quite conceivable that an alien race from another dimension, or using multidimensional technologies, could interact with our world without exhibiting themselves or their technologies. Or their technologies use properties we are totally unaware of anyway and so are undetectable to us as technology.This would thoroughly pass as magic to us, including the hardiest scientists though they would still try to gain the knowledge of what was going on.I find it offensive, unquestionably self-serving, for you to dismiss or downplay the possibility of technology superior to ours (or beings capable of generating such technology), while advancing the idea that there are invisible creatures which use "miraculous" interventions to affect our world.They are both logical possibilities and to hold one true, one must recognize the other as being equally possible. ACC merely pointed out that man would not necessarily be able to distinguish between the two, should evidence make one of these logical possibilities a very real probability.holmes