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Originally Posted by zeek
Right. Things happen to us that we can't explain sometimes. That doesn't mean it was a demon. It's a big leap from an unseen force to demon.
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I think the principle is you don't disregard your observations. A major mistake in scientific research is to discount or ignore observations that you don't understand.
What I am convinced of is that there is a lot here (by here I mean the archaelogical evidence I have mentioned, and historical accounts, to a lesser extent the eyewitness accounts more recently) that we do not understand.
Until we have understood and explained what we have found it is foolish to rule out any theories. What I also find foolish is the way we dismiss the accounts of ancient people as though they were children. If one civilization has a "myth" that man came from the stars I can understand that allegorically. But if three unrelated civilizations have the "myth" that man came from a particular star in the solar system, and they have models of this star system that could not be done without modern telescopes, even though they did this long before the telescope, then calling this a "myth" is much less credible.
Theories have to explain the observations and not ignore them. It is much easier to disprove a theory than it is to prove one.