From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:29:43 +0000, Your Name Here=Harvey wrote:   
      
      
   > OK, I won't be replying to any of his posts anymore, since there is   
   > no point in doing so.   
      
   Coward.   
      
   > We don't agree, and will never be able to agree on anything.   
   > When he resorts to name calling - I guess that shows what he is like.   
      
   I like to start the name-calling early, it saves time, since all usenet   
   discussions eventually degenerate into arguments.   
      
   >   
   > There is nothing wrong with wanting proof - we all want it.   
      
   It doesn't look much like that to me.   
      
   > Reason and logic will have to suffice in the meantime to sort out which   
   > is more likely to be plausible or not.   
      
   Hilarious.   
      
   So you think it more likely that:   
   Aliens travelled trillions of miles through space to find earth, and when   
   they get there they appear only to a non-entity living in the arse-end of   
   nowhere.   
   Although they make contact with him, they act like fakes, so that people   
   won't be forced into believing in them (in which case, why bother?)   
   They pass incorrect information through him (again, presumably so as not   
   to be too convincing), and withold anything which would actually prove   
   their case, although they take him into the future so that he can make   
   convincing prophecies.   
      
   than:   
      
   A random nutter fakes photographs using simple camera trickery and models.   
      
   Hmm, lets see, is there any evidence to support either side?   
   Well, the trickery is obvious under enhancement, and the models are   
   discovered. He pretends that he has a photograph of one of them; but when   
   this is shown to be a photo of an ordinary model, he claims that his   
   photograph has been stolen, and the fake substituted instead (but there is   
   no evidence to support this claim, apart from his word). He claims to have   
   travelled into the future; but "evidence" he produces to support his   
   story, is also a fake.   
      
   So, on the one hand, you have a starfaring civilisation behaving in an   
   implausibly illogical way, and on the other hand you have a known liar and   
   faker.   
      
   What does logic tell you now?   
      
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