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Aliens are like angels and demons in 12 century Europe- they're everywhere but you'll never see them.
by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Aliens are like angels and demons in 12 century Europe- they're everywhere but you'll never see them.
- the__alchemist 5y agoCarl Sagan wrote a book based on this premise: The Demon-Haunted World.
- dane-pgp 5y agoThe fact that the phenomenon has endured across centuries (and across cultures) either suggests that both demons and aliens are products of the human mind, or that demons and aliens are the same phenomenon, and they usually don't want to be seen.
- analog31 5y agoFor better or worse, science has enjoyed 400+ years of arbitrarily ignoring phenomena that are simultaneously profound but also irreproducible, while agreeing by convention that those phenomena are the realm of theology. Science has been an incredibly fruitful pursuit, but it has left itself utterly un-equipped to deal with aliens.