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Alex · 08-04-2008, 03:21 PM

Evolution is the conspiracy theory I believe in (as defined by a certain large segment of the creationist/ID community). Otherwise I'm having trouble thinking of anything I buy into that would widely be called a conspiracy. Oh, I do think there is a crypto-Christian conspiracy (though that is not to say ALL Christians are involved) to create a separately educated population in hopes of taking over our governmental institutions. But to a degree that is a conspiracy called "the democratic process at its dirtiest".

I'm not an expert but I've seen nothing that seems like strong evidence that anybody other than Oswald was involved in Kennedy's assassination.

The U.S. government was not involved in planning/execution of the 9/11 attack. I do not believe that any portion of the government was aware in a concrete way of the attack before it was carried out. Similarly I don't believe the FDR administration had pre-knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack and allowed it to happen for political reasons.

I do not believe that the government is in any way hiding or obfuscating evidence of alien life. I think that life is likely common through the universe but probably only at the bacterial level. Complex life is probably pretty rare and intelligent life capable of communicating across interstellar space or so altering their environment that we could detect is extremely rare. But even if extremely rare that suggests billions of intelligent species across the observable universe. However, assuming a relatively finite period of existence for any given species the odds of any two of those billions co-existing both spatially and temporally are really small. And given that I accept our current understanding of universal physical properties I do not think there are or ever will be aliens engaging in casual interstellar (or intergalactic) travel. Which is what would be necessary for any of the stories of alien visitation to be true.

I do not believe that the auto or oil industry has squelched the 100mpg standard car engine.

I do not believe that anybody has invented a perpetual motion or zero-point energy machine and just hasn't been able to get anybody to pay attention.

We did land on the moon.

NASA is not hiding evidence of a Mars civilization.

HIV/AIDS is not a man-made disease. And HIV does cause AIDS.

08-04-2008, 03:21 PM	#7
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Evolution is the conspiracy theory I believe in (as defined by a certain large segment of the creationist/ID community). Otherwise I'm having trouble thinking of anything I buy into that would widely be called a conspiracy. Oh, I do think there is a crypto-Christian conspiracy (though that is not to say ALL Christians are involved) to create a separately educated population in hopes of taking over our governmental institutions. But to a degree that is a conspiracy called "the democratic process at its dirtiest". I'm not an expert but I've seen nothing that seems like strong evidence that anybody other than Oswald was involved in Kennedy's assassination. The U.S. government was not involved in planning/execution of the 9/11 attack. I do not believe that any portion of the government was aware in a concrete way of the attack before it was carried out. Similarly I don't believe the FDR administration had pre-knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack and allowed it to happen for political reasons. I do not believe that the government is in any way hiding or obfuscating evidence of alien life. I think that life is likely common through the universe but probably only at the bacterial level. Complex life is probably pretty rare and intelligent life capable of communicating across interstellar space or so altering their environment that we could detect is extremely rare. But even if extremely rare that suggests billions of intelligent species across the observable universe. However, assuming a relatively finite period of existence for any given species the odds of any two of those billions co-existing both spatially and temporally are really small. And given that I accept our current understanding of universal physical properties I do not think there are or ever will be aliens engaging in casual interstellar (or intergalactic) travel. Which is what would be necessary for any of the stories of alien visitation to be true. I do not believe that the auto or oil industry has squelched the 100mpg standard car engine. I do not believe that anybody has invented a perpetual motion or zero-point energy machine and just hasn't been able to get anybody to pay attention. We did land on the moon. NASA is not hiding evidence of a Mars civilization. HIV/AIDS is not a man-made disease. And HIV does cause AIDS.
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