In news:1154492152.851728.27670@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com,
riplin@Azonic.co.nz <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> typed:

Amanda Angelika wrote:

If expert witnesses, and who could be more expert than someone who
actually was an Extra Terrestrial albeit briefly, see things and
have things on film then it's not an opinion but a statement of
truth to the best of their knowledge. That's evidence. Evidence
doesn't have to be 100% conclusive to qualify as evidence.

The BBC interview was just a chat, it was not a court of law where
expert opinion may be used to support a legal case.

If he had film then that may be actual evidence of something, though
of what may be debated.

Well although I haven't seen the interview myself I understand he does
mention that NASA has withheld or lost a considerable amout of "high
resolution" video footage. Whether he claims this is becuase they are or
were trying to hide something I'm not certain. However I understand there is
at least one NASA image on public record taken on the Apollo 11 mission
which shows a UFO and Alderin has now confirmed that they were shadowed.

Actually whilst I am inclined to mistrust NASA and the US government when it
comes to truth I am inclined to believe the Astonauts. If you have ever seen
the Movie "Did we really land men on the Moon?" <
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2265515730495966561&q=moon >
Alderin hits a guy in that and frankly I don't blame him for taking personal
offence to being accused of being a liar.

However it would be truthful to say there is absolutely no evidence
to support the church of scepticism, except the mistaken belief that
any absence of evidence is somehow valid as evidence, when in fact
it is just absence of evidence. Basing a belief on the absence of
evidence is more akin to a religious faith than a rational
scientific approach to these issues.

That is called projection. I am not making any claim as to whether
they exist or not, you are. I am only pointing out that there is no
actual evidence. You seem to take the word of the priests of your
UFOlogy cult, such as perhaps Marcel or Von Daniken or Berlitz or
some others, and are impressed by how ignorant the egyptians must
have been, it is surprising they could find the ground when they fell
over. I don't see any mystery at all over when or how the egyptians
built the pyramids (though I do wonder why) as I can see how they
could have done it.

Absence of evidence isn't evidence unless you are using it to support an
alternative theory which you are, but basing a theory on the lack of
evidence when evidence to the contrary actually exists is IMO plain
stupidity, it's not even close to a valid argument. Scepticism is a faith.
-- 
Amanda