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Originally Posted by tabs
Now a guy like Seahawk who has been a Naval Aviator has the ability based upon experience to tell ya what is a known or natural occurrence and what isn't. He is a credible witness based upon training and experience.
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With all due respect to Seahawk, he is also human and subject to the same cognitive limitations as the rest of us. The real "training and experience" takes the form of understanding that every one of us is fallible and that we are easily fooled.
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There are many things out there Horatio that are beyond our knowledge and or comprehension..to be an out right denier is to think that everything is already known and it couldn't possibly be, end of story..denial is the refuge of people who do not want to deal with unpleasant realities.
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Unfortunately, your argument is a straw man and frankly unexpectedly juvenile for a man of your substantial acumen. No one (certainly not me) is pushing "outright denial". Of course there are things we don't understand. Just because we don't know the answer to something doesn't mean the answer is "unknowable" or that the only plausible answer is a supernatural explanation. Or aliens. Or ghosts. Or Bigfoots.
In the history of mankind, the list of things that were once mysteries but are now known and understood is very long. Never...not once, has the answer to one of the mysteries been "supernatural". So, I would submit that subscribing to supernatural explanations for events is the actual "refuge of people who do not want to deal with unpleasant realities" - not those of us who simply ask for evidence for beliefs...
