• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    4 days ago

    I want to point out here that extraterrestrials being demons is no more absurd than extraterrestrials being a thing in the first place.

    We have no evidence of extraterrestrial life.

    We have no evidence of demons.

    We have no evidence that extraterrestrials are demons.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 days ago

      As a hypothesis, the existence of extraterrestrial life does not contradict any evidence we possess. It is perfectly consistent with everything else we know.

      The existence of demons contradicts virtually everything we know.

      Pretending the two positions are equivalent is intellectually dishonest at best, and a joke at worst. Please keep humour to designated communities.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 days ago

      We actually do have valid, scientific hints at extraterrestrial life.

      We don’t have definitive proof.

      We certainly don’t have anything that says there are more advanced species that ever existed.

      We definitely have nothing that says they’d been here or influenced us in any way.

      But there being extraterrestrial life is FAR less absurd that there being “demons”; some shit made up to scare people into tribal compliance thousands of years ago