In news:1108262558.508791.42730@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com,
mitchell_leary@yahoo.com <mitchell_leary@yahoo.com> typed:

I've been doing a bit of research on Iapetus, such as looking at the
photos and report over on www.enterprisemission.com and don't
understand what all the fuss is over.  So it's a misshapped moon. How
Hogland can see ET structures and a great 60,000 foot wall is just
plain wishful thinking.  Now he's implying it may even be an alien
spaceship.  Give me a break!  And this guy wants to be head of NASA?
People like Hogland love to lie to themselves.

Well it seems to have a raised seam around it's equator, it seems to be
painted half black (significant insofar as the same side always faces
Saturn) and appears to have a faceted structure. It's difficult to explain
all these things as entirely natural, because as a moon it seems too well
thought out. These things do therefore appear to be the work of some kind of
intelligence (there seem to be too many convenient coincidences for entirely
natural explanations). The only problem is creators, be they engineers,
artists or gods, produce miracles to be witnessed, so why would an kind of
creator perform miracles to a dead World? Of course if it is artificial it
means Saturn was at some point in the past inhabited by intelligent beings;
even a God wouldn't waste such an obvious clue on a dead World.

I suppose from a theological point of view it presents a fete a comply
insofar as if the Church believes God created the Universe then if He
created Lapetus (IOW it's natural) it was done for someone's benefit, which
means if God created all this, well aliens must exist to. Because miracles
are supposedly never performed without a reason, a witness and a
beneficiary, Of course if it's isn't Natural it also theologically proves
the existence of ET intelligence :)
-- 
Amanda


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