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246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups
The Michael Shermer Show
The Relationship Between Religion and E T I Beliefs
i took arthur c. Clark's third law, which you stated perfectly, and applied it one of my scientific american columns. I call it shermer's last law, because you can't name laws after yourself - any sufficiently advanced ex terrestrial intelligence. Or i added, far future, human would be indistinguishable from god just because of the kind of more's law, geometric growth, or expedential growth of technologies and societies. That idea is not original to me, but i think it's worth pursuing in that sense. O iv done some research on this. The psychologist clay routlidge and his colleagues found an inverse relationship between religiosity and e t i beliefs. Those who report
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