Quote:I will attempt to articulate what I think Matthew is getting at. I believe we need to master generalities before getting into specifics, otherwise we end up with more questions. You have provided answers that beg more questions. That doesn't get us very far, however interesting those specifics may be. I think we need more big answers first. Then the little answers will make more sense and their credibility will be self-evident. Rob
Not necessarily. If you're seeking to answer the 'big, ultimate question' of how life began in the universe, that's already answered from other perspectives (more metaphysical ones, naturally; it simply cannot be answered in physical terms, because reality is multi-dimensional), and it is another topic altogether. Or from another point of view, you can't answer the 'big question' from 'within the box', so why would you think that's what the original as well as 2nd post, was about?
Perhaps an analogy will make clearer the point of my 2nd (preceding) post. The point of intervention, is acknowledging the evidence of the extraterrestrial connection (notice that we do not simplify it to only a single extraterrestrial 'creator'). This is exactly analogous to saying we have DNA evidence that the species of tiger in country A has a direct ancestral connection with the species of tiger from country B, and not country C as previously thought. Whether we're speaking of country or planet, there is no difference in principle.
In nowhere within, was there an attempt to answer the 'big, ultimate question' of how life in the universe began. And yet, the discovery (even without asking the 'big question') of ET Intervensionism, can have important implications on it's own.
In this case, it is of the larger meta-social picture of humanities connection with races beyond Earth, that is the point here. And by no means an attempt to answer any 'big, ultimate question', which would require a metaphysical approach, not a scientific one (because human science is currently not multi-dimensional), which is what Interventionism is about (scientific evidence towards extraterrestrial involvement).
Quote:I believe we need to master generalities before getting into specifics.
If you're interested in the 'big, ultimate question', know that from 'within the box', it can never be 'mastered' in terms of (human) science, so it's a moot point. From 'beyond the box' (ie. metaphysical perspective), it is already answered (peruse Hilarion's 12 Universal Laws series, for instance), so again this is a separate matter from the point of awareness of Interventionism.
If this post still does not make clearer the point for some of you, I shall let it rest.