Faith and Begorrah

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Sunday night, Easter [4/12/20] the Science Channel had a presentation on the Shroud of Turin, a relic (artifact) that I believe is the actual burial shroud of Jesus/Christ.

That belief is armored by faith, mostly because alternative explanations for the shroud – a camera obscura creation by Leonardo or painting by another medieval artist the primary explanations – are so circumstantial and complex, Rube Goldbergian in nature that it beggars a greater belief (or faith) than that the shroud is, indeed, that which enveloped Jesus after his death.

I’m not going into the so-called “proofs” for fakery or the “proofs” for the shroud being authentic here but want to use my preamble to reaffirm how I’m thinking about things presented here, UFOs and otherwise.

For instance in my “Darwin is unique to Earth” thesis, a few “rebuttals” went awry, one being that my view is illogical when my presentation had nothing to do with logic but was a listing of the requirements presented by Darwin and Darwinians for how the evolution theory works on planet Earth, those requirements missing, one must assume, on a planet or planets elsewhere.

Another person disliked my presentation by writing this, “You didn't provide any reasons to think there'd be no Darwinian evolution off earth. All that's needed for Darwinian evolution is differential reproductive success as a function of variation inherent factors,” while my posting, which you can read, offered all kinds of reasons

The “rebuttal” was pathetic and it’s that kind of non-thinking that doesn’t sway me from some of my speculations here.

And while "UFOs as extraterrestrial vehicles" is a kind of anthema for me, I don’t rule out the possibility. I, along with others who have intellectual or academic credentials that are pronounced and notable that I lack, find the idea of travel between galaxies or from the outer reaches of the known universe difficult to endure intelligently.

However Michio Kaku mentioned during a History Channel show the other night that while a species a hundred years ahead of us in existence might have trouble traveling back and forth between galactic worlds, a species a million years in existence shouldn’t have any trouble whizzing around the Universe.

One guy thinks I have a narcissistic disorder. He may be right, but there it is. I can’t remove my ego from presentations here. That’s what blogs are for: to offer one’s views about life and other things, the topics inherently based in one’s thinking that their views have merit when, in fact, they may not.

But it’s a blog, not a PhD paper.

And a final note from a former regular here was that this is a dying blog. It may be, but that’s okay with me. Life moves on and I’m happy to read other views about UFOs and a myriad of other things at Facebook where I have recently been inducted into “The Young Guns of Ufology” and “The Angry Ufologists” groups and a few others.

RR