12-15-2010, 12:49 PM
(12-14-2010, 10:42 PM)Nabil Naser Wrote: One of the main problems that will be faced with disclosure is the reaction of the established religions. Today's religions are huge institutions that depend on the people believing certain ideas. Disclosure will bring new information that will challenge all religions, even as it proves that they all carry the basic truth within them. Some people will welcome this, others will insist that their religion is still superior.
I don't think the religion factor is actually a problem in this case. Religion has been the whipping boy of science for some hundreds years now. First the discovery that the Earth was not the center of the universe.. that one went down hard, but it's now almost every human on Earth will say it's true. Then the next biggie was Darwin and his theory of evolution. Again, the same problem although nobody was burned alive this time. There are always those who reject it, and prefere we go back to the mindset of perhaps 500 years ago, but by and large we're moving on collectively. UFO disclosure would just be another hurdle for religions (western religion at any rate) to jump over or embrace. In fact, some are doing that already!
(12-14-2010, 10:42 PM)Nabil Naser Wrote: There is also a huge dilemma that science will face, as they are provided with new methods to understand the universe. A new race for better understanding will begin, that may alter the current influences that are found in the world.
Science will be the bigger obstacle in my opinion. The scientific community is biased against such topics as UFOs for it has become an uncredible subject and taboo to research it professionally. This is a much larger topic that relates to science.. Where religion held the mantle of wisdom in centuries past, that duty has been given to science today. We look to it for answers that the church used to provide. Scientists themselves are very often viewed as priests of truth. I'm comfortable with that for the most part, but when the first response of the scientific community is rebuke and ridicule when such topics as PSI research, near death experiences and UFOlogy are presented, you can see there is a problem. For this reason I'm a little doubtful of the soft disclosure method... I think at some point, if the topic is ever going to reach the masses, there needs to be some sort of impactful event or official announcement made so that scientists will be forced to look at the evidence critically and cease kidding themselves (and the general public). Just my two cents!
L&L, ~E