What event in your life turned you into a Skeptic/Atheist?

[Eteponge]

Interestingly enough, there was a wave of triangle UFO sightings in North Carolina in the late 1980s to early 1990s. (Which is where mine took place in 1991.)

And guess what I found, another Triangle UFO case in NC where the UFO looked *exactly* (100%) like the one I personally saw and described ...

http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Exam ... iangle-UFO

[ProfWag]

[really?]

My first sighting of an UFO took place way back in 8/69. Saw three that night in about five minutes.

[caniswalensis]

Uh, guys.....

Why are we talking UFOs in this thread?

[NinjaPuppy]

Good catch Canis.

Thank you for pointing that out.

[ProfWag]

[Indigo Child]

[really?]

[ProfWag]

[Indigo Child]

This is where good ole's occams razor comes in.
The simplest explanation that fits the data is good.

The simplest explanation is it is a craft that does not belong to us
and defies all our laws of physics, it therefore is not a human craft.

Simple.

All other explanations require multiplication of variables. If it a secret governmental craft,
then why spend billions on obsolete techology like rocketry and still use obsolete science.
The reports of these UFO's go back several decades, when we had propeller-driven planes.
If they really belonged to us, why did we keep them secret all this time, and why not use them
in wars?

The explanation does not fly(pun intended)

[ProfWag]

[Indigo Child]

The simplest explanation, that fits the data

Come on face it, you cannot deny the ETH given the data,
so you deny the data.

All of the secret US planes you mentioned are consistent with
our human physics and they do not match the descriptions given
of UFO's and their flight.

You really need to break this habit of forcing explanations that
do not fit.

[ProfWag]

Believing in UFOs doesn't do much harm to society so if you'd like to believe that without using critical thinking skills, then by all means, believe away.

[Indigo Child]

The point here is, it is you are who are not using critical thinking by forcing explanations that do not fit.
On the contrary, all of us who are are arriving at the conclusions that UFO's exist, are doing so by looking at
the data and accepting the simplest explanation that fits the data.

Like I said, face it, you cannot deny the ETH given the data, so you deny the data.

You're the believer here, not us.

[ProfWag]