"The_Sage" <specialoffers@CityBend.com> wrote in message
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Reply to article by: "rick nielsen" <rnielsen@centurytel.net>
Date written: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:32:54 -0500
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Laughable coming from a man who didn't recognise the scientific method

when

it was presented to him, and can't discern between his subjective

opinion

and objective fact>

That in no way addresses the argument. Try another logical fallacy.

Nice try at creative snipping

...but obviously not as creative as you, seeing as you snipped my whole

entire

post on THE UFO CHALLENGE and then made snide immature remarks about me

instead

of addressing the argument. The only reason I can think of that you would

avoid

giving an honest argument is because you aren't honest...that and you have

no

logical thinking abilities, counter-facts, or any valid point to make. But

feel

free to prove me wrong by quoting something from my original post on THE

UFO

CHALLENGE, in fact, let me hold your wittle hand and start you off on the

right

track by quoting one paragraph of my original post and let's see if you

can say

something intelligent, counter-factual, or valid about it...

As a nuclear physicist...

Hold on a moment here! Stanton *was* a nuclear physicist years and years

ago,

but nowadays he is merely an author of New Age-like books.

In all actuallity his books have nothing to do with New Age books as they
don't require belief and faith , Stanton's books are more factually
described as untested theorising, they can be read and taken as simply a
theory that needs to be tested he puts forth the evidence he finds
convincing and the reader can decide whether he is convinced or not , but as
neither Stanton nor the reader can be transported to the time and space of
the event so the reader cannot observe the phenomenon and as the very nature
of the phenomenon is transient all we have is the testimoney ,Stanton puts
out the testimoney he finds pertinent and the reader can either ,agree ,
disagree ,or say interesting but not enough.

His former career has

absolutely nothing to do with his current career. In my opinion, I

believe he

likes to hide behind the title "Nuclear Physicist", even though nuclear

physics

has absolutely nothing to do with UFOs, maybe because it adds

respectability to

an otherwise silly belief.

It is the training he brings to the table nothing less, nothing more. adds
nothing to the evidence and likewise subtracts nothing from it , it simply
is., But you illustrate again by your calling his belief silly how you
cannot discern a fact from a opinion.

 I mean think about it: if a Rocket Scientist or

Nuclear Physicist says there is a "Cosmic Watergate", then by golly,

there

certainly must be a "Cosmic Watergate" because Rocket Scientists or

Nuclear

Physicists are so damn intelligent that it is physically impossible that

they

could be wrong or could be suckered into a UFO cult!

Again your subjective opinion , I have never heard him imply in any way that
he is omipotent , and anyway as the truth isn't dependant on democracy it
doesn't really matter if 99% of all scientifically trained people don't
think A is possible if A is a factual event then 99% of scientifically
trained people would be as wrong as anyone else that denies the possibility
of A, in fact one cannot say anything is impossible ,without impling that
science "knows everything" and that we have reached the end of learning, all
one can say is that something is impossible at this time and at this level
of understanding.

The Sage

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