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Originally Posted by tore
I'm a sceptic. Among other things, that means I try to maintain some kind of criteria for what I'm prepared to believe in. Based on what I know about the universe, the hypothesis that intelligent aliens having visited planet earth does not pass the criteria. As I wrote earlier, assuming that the idea is pure imagination, well, as long as there's no evidence to conflict with that assumption, then it's one simple assumption which is congruent with what we know about reality. People have active imaginations and are sometimes manipulative. If you accept that aliens visited our planet back then, you have to make a whole new set of assumptions about our universe to fit that hypothesis into your world view. The chances of you believing in something which is not true rises dramatically.
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Being skeptical is just anohter way of not saying "no," but not necessarily saying "yes" or vice versa. Beside you can't be skeptical on a hypothetical without given some creedence to what you say you are skeptical of, like say if someone says she is skeptical of unicorns that doesn't mean that she flat out denies unicorns exist, it's just means she doesn't believe in them now because there's a lack of evidence, she might believe in them if she sees them (that is if there's not someone trying to trick her by like glueing of a horn on a horse). Like she don't want to say "no" to their existence because is working under the assumption there could be a slight chance unicorns
might exist. So being a skeptic you believe in the real possiblity of ancient aliens?
And another thing, Skeptism should not be dependent on critea, what happens if your cirtea is too low, you could be gullible to awlful lot of things, if your critea is too high you might not believe in anything, eg like those who are in the Flat Earth Society, their critea is soo high, that they're tremendously skeptical of a slightly bulging spherical Earth.
You are working form the assumption the so-called ancient aliens were ETIs from another planet in this Universe. There are other possiblities too, you know. What about the multi-verse? One scenario is that these ancient aliens or modern day aliens could be extra-dimension beings. If they were to come from this Universe, traveling these vast distances, there are many problems that can arrise from Einsteinian Physics eg traveling the speed of light (C), but if they are from another dimension they could just side-step Einstein's Physics altogether. The don't have the difficulty of traveling near the speed of light in space-time (and by doing so ever increasing their mass), but they can easily move from one dimension to another in their extra-dimensional vehicle.
I'm skeptical as well (like you are) to many things that I hear from pseudo-scientific communtiy and/or the world of para-normal scieince. Ancient aliens is not a modern day phenomena. Though it is one of the more popular modern day theories put forth, a lot of it is base in myths and legends from the ancient world, hence the moniker "Ancient Astronauts."