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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:15 PM
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Why isn't the Star Trek theory of intelligent seeding being taught?
Anyone remember in Star Trek:TNG how Capt. Picard found evidence that some super-intelligent alien race had seeded various planets throughout the galaxy? This helped explain why so many diversce races had similiar characteristics (bipedal, facial features, etc). Maybe we should start a petition to have this theory taught in public schools, along with incompetent design.

We could also throw in the Flying Spaghetti Monster while we're at it!
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:18 PM
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1. we still haven't found it on earth, especially inside DC.
if alien races had neocons like ours, then, it is likely that we are the last remnant, about to self-destruct because of hubris, stupidity and ignorance.

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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:18 PM
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2. superb idea!
There are more Trekkers than there are fundies.

I thought flying pasghetti was already part of the curriculum.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:19 PM
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3. And while we're at it
Let's not forget Captain James T. Kirk's heroic one-man seeding program. The man sure had a way with the alien babes!
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:20 PM
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4. Here ya go... not seeding but still Trek in origin
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:20 PM
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5. Same reason ID isn't being taught
It lacks a falsfiable hypothesis.
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zippy890 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:24 PM
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6. You're on to something!
Star Trek intelligent design theory makes MORE sense than the religious one.

I've had the thought myself that the human race originally started as an alien experiment - gone horribly wrong. when the aliens saw what they had done - they took off at warp speed never to return.

;-)
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adarling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:45 PM
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13. then the Scientologists would love you :)
hahahaha...did you ever see the South Park episode, it will help explain what i mean :)
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stevietheman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:24 PM
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7. Because it's not a theory, but rather a SciFi hypothesis. n/t
n/t
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:25 PM
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8. Because Scientists hate Gene Roddenberry.
He produced a show that got everyone all excited about phasers and transporters and warp drives. So excited that when scientists make a new breakthrough, such as smaller transistors or DNA splicing, no one is suitably impressed.

Also, Jesus wasn't a fan of the show. The few times he watched it was TNG, and all he could say was stuff like "I could kick Q's butt. Oh yah."
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Hyernel Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:25 PM
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9. It's more a viable theory than a magical cloud being.
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:33 PM
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12. It actually goes along with my God theory
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 03:56 PM by BushOut06
That if God does exist, he's probably some alien being from an extra-dimensional universe. Just as we would look down on a one-or-two-dimensional universe and be able to see everything, so would a being from a higher dimension be able to see all of ours. Such a higher dimension would transcend our space/time concept, and therefore anyone on that plane would have be omnipresent as well as omniscient from our point of view (much like the Q Continuum on Star Trek:TNG). I've always been fascinated with theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, parallel universes, etc. IMHO, much of what we currently classify as "supernatural" will someday be explained rather easily by quantum mechanics and parallel universe theory.

Someone else pretty much expounded on this theory in their book "Chariot of the Gods".
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satireV Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:29 PM
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10. Check out "directed panspermia"
http://www.panspermia-society.com/

Crick.... of Watson and Crick fame, actually supports the theory/hypothesis.

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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:29 PM
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11. It makes tons of sense if we take into account "real" aliens
Almost all alien encounters describe either grays or reptoids, which are, just like on Star Trek, bipedal with similar facial features.

Sarcasm aside.... it has as much data, if not more, than ID does.
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