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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 08:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:51:39 -0400
Subject: Re: Project 1947 - Re: ABC Nightline:  Roswell

Here's an "oldie" I'd like to comment on.

> Date:  Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:26:22 -0500
> From: Mark Rodeghier <markrod@XSITE.NET>
> Subject: Re: ABC Nightline:  Roswell
> To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
>
> I'd like to add this thought to Jan Aldrich's comments on the Nightline
> program.
>
> Ted Koppel was about as ill-prepared for this segment as is possible,
> and began the live interviews with an idiotic question (statement)
> about God as evidence for or indication of extraterretrial intelligence
> (yes, really). Koppel was as much the problem as Randle or Jeffrey last
> night, though I agree with Jan that they could have made much more of
> Koppel's claim about all those interested in UFOs being true believers,
> etc.
>
> Mark Rodeghier

Though I did not see the program, I feel that Koppels' question as
expressed in the first sentence above was not really idotic at all.
Perhaps he has a glimmering of the fact (to me it's a fact, anyhow) that
the Judeo-Christian God was an extraterrestrial intelligence who for some
reason held a long-term interest in the Israelis.  The ability of Yahweh
or El to ride around in a "pillar of cloud," etc., just like the gods
within the mythologies of other cultures, and the existence of the Elohim
(the gods), is much too like the UFO phenomenon to dismiss merely because
one may not care to juxtapose ufology and religion.  A lot has been
written about the subject since Van Danikan's first book, the latest being
Joe Lewels' _The God Hypothesis_.  So if ETs gave rise to the gods, and
one particular ET to the concept of a male, humanoid "God" who resides in
the heavens, this concept of God can be argued to constitute past evidence
for ETI.

However, I would not wish to defend Koppel's attitude toward ufology any
further than that.

    Jim Deardorff