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29 Mar 2023, 9:51 am

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It's been like that for years. It's either pseudoscience or Hitler. I guess they're just giving people what they want to see. Sad.


Hey, sometimes it's pseudoscience about Hitler.


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29 Mar 2023, 10:22 am

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It's been like that for years. It's either pseudoscience or Hitler. I guess they're just giving people what they want to see. Sad.


Hey, sometimes it's pseudoscience about Hitler.

Well...they have done shows connecting Hitler to UFOs. Maybe they will find a way to connect Hitler to ....Bigfoot!



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29 Mar 2023, 11:21 am

:lol:

I’ve heard demon-possessed.


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29 Mar 2023, 12:46 pm

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*Sigh*… ils sont fous ces extraterrestres.



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29 Mar 2023, 12:53 pm

It's good to see Mr. Hands was able to find a new job.


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29 Mar 2023, 8:39 pm

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Or it would indicate that they're not entirely a separate species.


How could aliens from another star system be the "same species" as any organism on earth? Us, or any other earth species?

We have 98.5 percent the same DNA as chimps. And about two thirds the same DNA as mushrooms. We are clearly related to and evolved from other earth organisms. Where in our genome is their room for this alien DNA? If it exists it would be some tiny proportion of that 1.5 percent that is not also chimp DNA. Like one part in a thousand of all our DNA. If these aliens shared only one one thousandth of our DNA they would still be farther removed from us than a mushroom. Wouldnt even be in our kingdom (as in "kingdom, phylum, class, order, etc)much less the same species as us.

I think I see what the problem is here.

I dismiss his notion of "hybrids" as being absurd from the get-go because the Universe cant work that way, and the reasons that it cant work that way all boil down to the fact that evolution wouldnt allow the same species of organism to evolve independently on two different planets light years apart.

The problem is that the OP has a different assumption- that being- that Evolution doesnt exist. I happened to know that he is a Evolution denying Young Earth Creationist (from seeing his post years ago). So the OP is not teethered to the Evolution rule book the way I am.

So I am guessing that he must be postulating that - in that same week in 4000 BC when God "created heaven and Earth" that he also created all of the exoplants, and he also would have created any exoplanets that have life, and thus would have created any intelligent alien beings on any exoplanets that have intelligent life. In contrast to my assumption that any intelligent aliens, if they exist, would be the product of a similar several billion year long process of evolution that produced us here on earth. And that because it was a seperate evolution said beings couldnt have genetic kinship to us.

So in his Creationist Cosmos if God did that then there would be no reason that God couldnt have used the same genetic blueprint for these space aliens as he did for creating us humans. So despite the fact that we and these aliens from hundreds of light years away would have no common ancestry they could still be the same species as us.

And yes... I suppose that that would be a possibility if you throw out the Evolution rule book. God could do any magical thing...like magically spawn the same species on seperate planets in seperate solar systems. But I would think that such a hypothesis would create more problems than it solves. Including theological problems. For one thing the Bible doesnt say anything about God creating beings on other planets. So why was that left out of the story?



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29 Mar 2023, 8:55 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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The aliens didn't quite study human anatomy correctly before writing that book

Sure, they did. That’s an exact replica of what I looked like when I was pregnant.



Hybrid sapien-reptile confirmed.

They are vomited out.That one is ready to emerge.


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30 Mar 2023, 5:29 pm

Parakeet, I did not know you were back among us!


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30 Mar 2023, 5:30 pm

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*Sigh*… ils sont fous ces extraterrestres.


:lol: :lol: :lol: ! !! I needed a good laugh!


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30 Mar 2023, 6:20 pm

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The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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*Sigh*… ils sont fous ces extraterrestres.


:lol: :lol: :lol: ! ! ! I needed a good laugh!

Centaurs were not just myths. Where did you think that they came from? :D



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30 Mar 2023, 6:49 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
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*Sigh*… ils sont fous ces extraterrestres.


:lol: :lol: :lol: ! ! ! I needed a good laugh!

Centaurs were not just myths. Where did you think that they came from? :D


Realistically... Scythians. The Greeks saw these people practically born to ride, and so came to mythologize them as half-man, half-horse.


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31 Mar 2023, 8:04 pm

Then how do you explain the Minotaur?

The creature with a bull's head on a man's body.

Spawned when Zeus changed himself into a bull and got it on with a human woman?

And what do you get when you cross a minotaur with a centaur?

You get a mentor! :)



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01 Apr 2023, 12:16 am

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Then how do you explain the Minotaur?

The creature with a bull's head on a man's body.

Spawned when Zeus changed himself into a bull and got it on with a human woman?

And what do you get when you cross a minotaur with a centaur?

You get a mentor! :)
Memory of the Minoan civilization, where bronze age Greeks saw bull fights in the palace in Knossos, Crete.


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01 Apr 2023, 4:08 pm

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Then how do you explain the Minotaur?

The creature with a bull's head on a man's body.

Spawned when Zeus changed himself into a bull and got it on with a human woman?

And what do you get when you cross a minotaur with a centaur?

You get a mentor! :)
Memory of the Minoan civilization, where bronze age Greeks saw bull fights in the palace in Knossos, Crete.

Yes. More like "bull leaping" than "bull fighting", but part of the same Mediterranean tradition of morbid fascination with bulls. Young athletes (both men and women) would do "bull leaping" in a public arena. And do it with animals much closer to the wild aurochs ancestor of domestic cows than are today's cattle. BIG. With big horns. The bull would lower their head so that the athlete could grab its horns, and then the bull would jerk its head up throwing the person into the air, and the person would do somersaults over the bull's back. And then gracefully land on the ground behind the bull. Kind of cross between olympic gymnastics and rodeo.

The youths used in this might have been taken as tribute by the Minoans from Minoan dominated states on the mainland as part of tribute. The distorted memory of that might be in the myth which states that "youths were taken from all over Greece by King Minos of Crete to be fed to the Minotaur".