Laurie Appleton wrote in a message to Paul Andinach:
PA>   Nice to see you again!
PA>   ...but what can you possibly talk about on this echo?
 LA>    The very belief in the existence of UFOs in the sense of being
 LA> extraterrestrial visitations is fundamentally a belief that is
 LA> based on EVOLUTION. Christian people have generally believed that
 LA> God created life on the Earth only, whereas evolutionists are
 LA> usually almost certain that where ever similar conditions to those
 LA> that exist on earth happen to exist, that life will also, most
 LA> likely occur there as well.
Yes, but please don't get into that here.  To an extent, it would be allowed 
in BAMA.
 LA>    They reason that life could have evolved on some other planets
 LA> outside of the Solar system, much sooner than on earth and might
 LA> well have developed a technology that is much more ADVANCED than
 LA> ours and might thus be able to do much more things than we can!
They'd live longer, that's for sure.
 LA>    Again it could be argued that Aliens from other planets have
 LA> often visited the earth in the past and perhaps they made contact
 LA> with Moses on Mt. Sinai and gave him the TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Off-topic.
 LA>   The reasoning here is that such Aliens might have been much more
 LA> advanced than we are in morality and social rules and health 
 LA> matters, and saw it as a duty to provide all those laws and rules 
 LA> to Moses in the hope that Earth people would develop peacefully 
 LA> and use all their scientific advances for peaceful development.
Entirely possible, but still...
 LA>    It is suggested that, such Aliens saw Earthlings as a possible
 LA> future danger to the whole Cosmos, unless they used their science
 LA> properly.
 LA>   It also follows that they might well have threatened to destroy
 LA> the Earth and all that is in it unless we "got it right"!
I saw that movie, too.  (-:
 LA>   So how about that?
Not bad, all-in-all.
Regards,
Roger
Moderator - UFO Echo
Roger.Nelson@f7.n3828.z1.fidonet.org 
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