In “Perspectives on Evaluating Evidence for the Existence of
Unidentified Flying Objects” there are three authors who have different views
of the topic of UFOs. The reading starts off with Condon’s argument. He
basically states that what evidence that has been shown has been stated before
and there is nothing new being discovered to prove the existence of UFOS. The
next author Hynek, in which he states that we do not have enough scientific
evidence, mainly for the fact it is not organized and not properly studied. He
also goes into detail with mass media and how it has affected the study. That
there is confusion with beliefs from movies and the lack of attention of scientists
that UFOs will be hard to get by. He then by giving a way to actually goes
about studying this. The last author was Paynter, in which he believes that since
there is no physical evidence that he cannot be true and anyone who believes it
is all faith not science. I happen to side with Paynter, because like him, I
need physical evidence.
I also sided with Paynter in the argument about UFOs. I found that Condon and Hynek felt too strongly about whether it was true or false. Condon thought all of the UFO sightings were just fabrications people had made up because there was no actual evidence to support it. On the other hand, Hynek believed the evidence was there and just needed to be sorted out from all of the confusion. I can see where both sides are coming from but I felt Paynter had the best approach. He believed they shouldn’t settle on it being either true or false until they had solid evidence that proved it to be so.
ReplyDeleteThat is good to note that the first has no other facts than just to prove the existence of UFO’s. I find this interesting because one may fail to think further proof than just on discovery. The fact that the next author explains that we have not exact proof or study of the concept of UFO’s. This is relevant because we don’t have the answer to draw on concrete evidence. The next author protects his argument because faith alone upon believing in UFO’s is not to be shown as true. Thanks for the read….
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