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From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:38:29 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Fwd Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:17:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Are we Alone?


 >From: Graeme Best <graemebest@hotmail.com>
 >To: updates@globalserve.net
 >Subject: Re: Are we Alone?
 >Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 03:33:47 EST

 >Paul Davies article in Melbourne Age

 >G'day EBK,

 >While watching this thread develop, I felt I should send you
 >this article by Paul Davies which appeared in the local press
 >last weekend. It should of course be remembered that Davies was
 >also the winner of the 1995 Templeton prize for Progress in
 >Religon. It is actually quite a long article, and I could'nt
 >find it in the archives at www.theage.com.au, so I've snipped a
 >large part from the beginning...

<snip>

 >"WHY WE STILL BELIEVE IN ALIENS, REGARDLESS OF THE FACTS" by
 >Paul Davies. Published in the Melbourne Age 5/11/99 (extract)

 >...Probes sent to the Red Planet failed to find Lowells canals,
 >or any sign of life. There is a chance that Mars once harboured
 >microbes, but little green men are definitely off the agenda.

<snip>

 >The abscence of any observational evidence for ET leaves us with
 >only theory to go on. Unfortunately, scientists have scant idea
 >how life originated. It may have been a freak molecular
 >accident, unique to Earth. On the other hand, life may arise
 >more or less automatically under favourable conditions.

Hi everyone.

I have come to conclude that many people, including scientists
and ufologists, feel very comfortable with just maintaining our
current beliefs and thinking regarding the question "Are we alone
in this universe?".  We may all profess to be open minded and to
be striving for the answer to this important question, but in
fact we are not and don't really care to be either.

Human recorded history tells us the answer to this question but
we have now discarded all this accumulated knowledge and have
replaced it with a new religious system of beliefs, dogmas and
new doubts. Our speculations and educated opinions it seems are
more important to us in this "scientific age" rather than the
simple truths.

In our harsh criticism of each others methods and in quickly
dismissing data we do not like, we may have also actually thrown
out the answer to this important question on more than one
occasion.

For example, in 1976 the scientific discovery of life on Mars
was made.  That year on U.S.A.'s Independence Day, the Viking 1
made a soft landing on Mars.  On board was an experiment that
was designed to detect organic life that would react chemically
in much the same way as organic life on Earth would.  The result
was positive.  Unfortunately NASA which sent out Viking 1
continues to overlook this discovery even though all its initial
doubts have been addressed.  The September/October 1999 issue of
UFO Magazine (UK) has an interview with Dr. Gilbert Levin (pages
8 and 9), the frustrated NASA scientist who made the discovery
of life on Mars.  His papers can be found at the web sites
below.

http://www.biospherics.com/mars/spie/spiehtml.htm

http://www.biospherics.com/mars/spie2/spie98.htm

NASA still promotes a "Mars" meteorite which it claims may
contain microfossils (now there are two more) proving that life
once existed on Mars and even created the Astrobiology Institute
(strange if NASA didn't have good reasons to believe that life
is really out there).

Although Paul Davies is a learned man, his article is wrong when
he claims that probes to Mars failed to find ANY sign of life or
that there is an absence of observational EVIDENCE for ET.  If
there wasn't any, I for one wouldn't be wasting my time reading
all about the latest ET evidence in ufology.

Nick Balaskas