The new scientific proof of aliens

With the advent of the new visualization science (known more popularly as the new mind science) it is now possible to prove, without a shred (or shedding) of doubt that intelligent alien life forms do in fact exist. (That was not a misprint or a misquote. see below)

Quotes and comments;

1. ''If you visualize evolutionary relationships in the form of branching diagrams and then plot them on a time scale, new patterns begin to emerge, with gaps in the fossil record suddenly filling rapidly.”

- Yes, exactly; that's Darwinism in a nutshell.

We have the new atheism, and now we have the new science. We might call it the science of the mind. (Not that the mind exists of course, but we speak loosely.)
Yes; the new mind science, where anything is possible, even life from non-life. What did that jerk Pasteur know anyway; he lived before the new mind science was invented.

Patterns begin to 'emerge' they tell us. Yes, that's about all 'emergence' is; it's the formation of patterns in the brain. Life didn't arise from inert matter in the real world, but in the mind. This makes life on earth about a hundred years old. (Now that's what I call a young earth.)

Apparently this 'fossil record' exists in the mind, or (as real scientists say) in the brain. I agree. I've long contended the textbook version of the fossil record existed mainly in the brain. ("Reality? Who needs that?")

I think we all have to admit that this is certainly an easier way to do science. (Now even people in Cuba, or in hospital beds can do cutting edge science.)

2. 'One of the team members elaborated on the success of visualization and imagination as gap-filling strategies. “It is as if ghosts from the past appear all of a sudden and join their relatives in a big family tree – you have a bigger tree,” he said. [1.]

- Ah yes; Darwinian ghosts, my favorite kind. They populate the pages of textbooks and science mags by the millions. (Cast one out and seven return.)

Yes; the new visualization science... I like it. Before we know it we'll have aliens on the Tree of life, all kinds of them, stretching out beyond mankind.... filling in all the cosmic gaps. This is going to be great. I can hardly wait.
It's going to be a big project transferring all the aliens from SF to the new Evolutionary tree, but I think it's going to be worth it. It's definitely going to be a bigger tree; a much bigger tree.

Nothing like imagination to fill in all those missing links. Who said they would never be found. (The creationists have been proven wrong yet again.) I only hope I can get in on the project, I have a lot of 'creatures' I'd like to add to the tree. The new cosmic tree outdoes the old in that it stretches from one end of the universe to the other.

In the new visualization science if you can imagine something it automatically comes true. (It's all a matter of quantum physics no doubt.) It's the new Ontological argument. (From the new atheists to the new ontologists.)
This may well mean (further study will decide for sure) that every alien imagined by a SF writer is alive and well somewhere in the universe; that via imagination they somehow intuited reality. This is exciting.

3. “This way, you can start analysing observed and extrapolated abundance of species through time, and you can quantify novel origination and extinction events that would otherwise go unnoticed if you were to look at known finds only.”

- What do we call this? the trivialization of reality?

If you can study none existent species on earth, why can't you use this method to study aliens? Aren't they unnoticed merely because they haven't been found? Why should that be held against them? Because they haven't been found doesn't mean they don't exist. That would be as absurd as saying the billions of missing links don't exist because we can't find them. (And surely no one believes that.)

They have to exist, we know that by studying evolutionary theory; their existence is every bit as certain as ours is. We can no more doubt them than we can doubt the earth orbits the big thing out there, you know, that thing that looks hot.

4. 'Another co-author of the paper emphasized the role of “evolutionary thinking” as a substitute for real bones: “Classic text-book views of waxing and waning of groups through deep time will certainly benefit, where possible, from the use of evolutionary thinking.”

- I nominate evolutionary thinking as a substitute for the bones of aliens. (I want to make it clear that I'm not saying I think all aliens have bones. Don't misquote me.)

I like evolutionary thinking, it's almost as good as real thinking, and much easier.

5. 'A peer from the University of Washington seemed delighted with this first-ever detailed study of parareptile relationships, because “we still know very little about their biology.” [1.]

- Well; why do we have to know anything? That's the real question. It's simply old fashioned (part of the old science) to think you have to have some real data before you can study an organism. If you have theory you have all you need, as you can simply visualize the rest. (Whether or not you need to use a crystal is really beside the point, and I don't think we have to get into it at this point.)

6. 'The abstract states that they provided “Phylogeny-corrected measures of diversity” and examined “ghost lineages” – i.e., lineages that should be there if evolution were true, but left no fossils. [1.]

- The mere fact aliens haven't left fossils doesn't mean they don't exist (did I say this before? I'm so excited I can't remember), we know they exist, and since it's technically difficult to visit every planet in the galaxy, it's a perfectly acceptable alternative to just imagine them. It's the new science; and the new science can't be bound by the old (data dependent) science.

It's time to move on; to move beyond the earth and our small, local evolutionary tree, and scamper out onto the branches of the cosmic tree.

In summary,
We can see how the new visualization science promises to shed light into hitherto unnoticed areas of the evolutionary model (dare we say universe). Congratulations team, from all of us here at Thinking About Creation.

Mike Johnson

Notes;
1. How to Fill In Missing Fossils: Imagine Them - Creation/Evolution Headlines 05/09/2011 May 09, 2011 — Evolutionists have long known of systematic gaps in the fossil record. This has been a frequent criticism lodged by Darwin skeptics against the evolutionary notion of a gradually unfolding tree of life. Now, however, it appears that evolutionists have revived use of a tool in their arsenal for combating the critics: imagination. Missing transitions in the record? No problem. Fill them in with “evolutionary thinking.”
2. The anti-creationist Dr. Greg House was quoted as saying, ''Cool!" and popped another Vicodin. I guess that about says it all.
3. This article gives us an example of why Darwinism is unfalsifiable. In the words of the website commentary (which we assume was authored by DC) "You can’t sink an imaginary ship on an imaginary ocean."
4. 'The team led by Dr Marcello Ruta of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences ... used the evolutionary relationships among known parareptiles to produce a corrected estimate of changing diversity through time.
- They don't 'know' what these relationships are; they just have a model they've fashioned that's to their liking... and they assume it in all they do. This isn't discovery, but interpretation and model building. (Why bother? that's my question. I thought there was supposed to be a drastic shortage of scientists. Is this the best way to employ these people :=}

They can't 'correct' anything since they have no observational data. (Their theories etc. are based on an interpretative model of the fossil rocks; on a model, not data.) Data without interpretation (theory) is meaningless. It's human beings who put (interject) meaning into the data. Interpretations are rarely scientific, but cultural or philosophical spin.